Andrew Botterell received the Western Law Award for Teaching Excellence. His nominators praised him for his accessible, clear and engaging teaching methods, which include class discussion of where the law meets societal realities, always presented with a sense of humour and compassion.
Chi Carmody received a $43,500 grant from the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) for his project, “Mapping the Legal Framework of Carbon Pricing under the Western Climate Initiative.” He will supervise student researchers from Western Law, Case Western Reserve University Law, and UC Berkeley Law as they prepare a handbook on provincial and state compliance with the Western Climate Initiative. Carmody was also appointed Senior Fellow at CIGI in March 2018.
Erika Chamberlain and co-applicant Rande Kostal were awarded $79,029 for their SSHRC Insight Grant project titled “Canada’s Private Law Revolution”. They aim to develop an original methodology to study doctrinal change in the private law of Canada’s common law provinces. They will discern patterns in the rights-claim of the main social movements of 1945-1970 and to document their presence and impact on private law doctrine in the ensuing quarter century.
Michael Coyle is one of 12 coapplicants, along with Principal Investigator Catherine Choquette (Université de Sherbrooke), of a $266,890 SSHRC Insight Grant for the project “L’adaptation du droit de la gouvernance aux changements climatiques”. This collaborative project will examine the appropriateness of existing legal norms and processes to meet the challenges posed by climate change. Coyle will investigate the relevance of Indigenous norms to the development of appropriate regulatory processes to address climate change, and the adequacy of existing laws to take into account the rights and interests of Indigenous peoples.
Jennifer Farrell has received a Teaching Support Centre Mentoring Micro Grant, $1,800, and a Western Strategic Support for SSHRC Success seed grant of $21,292 for her “Blockchain and Taxation” research.
Randal Graham won the Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fantasy fiction for his novel Beforelife. The Ippy Awards honours the year’s best independently published titles from around the world.
Jason Neyers and co-applicant Andrew Botterell were awarded $87,846 for their SSHRC Insight Grant project titled “Deceit and Per Quod: A Rights-Based Perspective”. They will examine the tort of deceit and the action of per quod, namely the rediscovery of the concepts of public right and status relations in law. The study will explore foundational issues about the nature of tort law from both philosophical and doctrinal perspectives, and will combine conceptual analysis with practical application.
Valerie Oosterveld has been awarded a grant from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in the amount of $32,700 in order to co-host Strategic Dialogues on Gender-Based Crimes in International Criminal Law. The inaugural Strategic Dialogues took place in London, United Kingdom, in June in partnership with academics and practitioners from around the globe.
David Sandomierski and Philip Girard (Osgoode) were awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant of $25,000 to support their conference, “Beyond Harvard: Transplanting Legal Education”, which took place in June. Sandomierski was also awarded a Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal from the University of Toronto for his dissertation that provides an empirical foundation for an ambitious vision of legal education in which law schools can be more successful at cultivating critical, engaged citizens.
Jacob Shelley has been awarded a $19,992 CIHR Planning Grant for a project titled “Law as a Public Health Tool: Empirical Research to Advance Evidence-Informed Law and Practice”, along with coapplicant Nola Ries at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Planning Grant will examine the role for empirical and experimental methods in the study of law’s role in public health. It will culminate in two workshops, one in Sydney, Australia and the other in London, ON. He was also awarded a $10,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Emerging Team grant with Drs. Sibbald and Smith at the School of Health Studies. They will establish the Health Ethics, Law, and Policy Support (HELPS) research team as a result of this grant.
Thomas Telfer has been named a Western Teaching Fellow. His project will involve research into mindfulness and mental health education in law schools, and the development of new program for Western Law and builds on the mindfulness program that he piloted at Western Law this year. He will receive a three-year secondment, $10,000 in funding per year to conduct his research.
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