Bora Laskin Faculty of Law information sessions will be held for prospective students looking to apply this year or next year. Students should have a three-year undergraduate degree before applying.

• Thursday, Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm at PACI - Room PA1005

There is no need to RSVP for the session. We look forward to meeting you!

Quicklaw session - drop in for a refresher on how to use Quicklaw or if you have any questions about the service.

Session in the Paterson Auditorium for 2L and 3L law students. 1L students will have a separate training session.

MP candidates Patty Hajdu (Liberal), Andrew Foulds (NDP) and Bruce Hyer (Green) will be taking part.

The Debate will be moderated by LSS President, Leslie DeMeulles and will include brief opening and closing statements by each candidate.  

The Debate has been jointly planned by the Law Student Society, the Environmental Law Student Association and the Office of the Dean.

First Day of Law School!

Classes begin for second years (2L) and third years (3L) right from day 1. 

For first years (1L), the first week will be a mix of Orientation to Law School and introductory classes.

You'll receive a full schedule to your Lakehead email in late July for Orientation.

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Open to law students only.

Dr. Frances Chapman will be speaking today at lunch on the topic of Brainwashing and the Battered Woman: Involuntary Servitude and Intimate Relationships.

In North America, many still believe that the defense of brainwashing is simply an excuse to avoid responsibility for one’s personal actions.  This presentation seeks to understand the North American use of this concept by the legal system by making comparisons to the concept in the United States and Italy.  First, a general outline of the concept will be established by looking at a possible defence of brainwashing and the batteredwoman.  Secondly, an overview of the Italian offence of “plagio” will be presented, and thirdly a comparison will be made to the American concept of “involuntary servitude.” Fourthly the historic case of Kozminski will be examined and contrasted with the modern case of Marcus.  The talk will finish with a proposal for a North American offense of brainwashing and a call for more study into this very misunderstood area of the law.  All of these concepts involve taking away the exercise of free will, and a consistent approach needs to be adopted that recognizes that psychological coercion may be as real as being physically caged.

Eugene Meehan Q.C. will be presenting a session on Strategic Legal Writing: Preparing Persuasive Documents for all law students and interested Faculty members.

Eugene Meehan is a Litigation Partner at Supreme Advocacy LLP, Ottawa.  Primary work: Supreme Court of Canada, arguing appeals and assisting other lawyers in taking cases (both Leave to Appeal and Appeal) to the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as Complex Legal Opinions. Holds 4 degrees in law:  University of Edinburgh (LL.B.), McGill University (LL.M.), University of Ottawa (LL.B.) and Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University (D.C.L.).  Practising member of 6 Bars:  Ontario, Alberta, N.W.T., Yukon, Nunavut, Saskatchewan (Honourary); licenced to practise law in the state of Arizona, U.S.A.   Executive Legal Officer, Supreme Court of Canada, 1990-1992.  Appointed Queen’s Counsel 1999.  National President, Canadian Bar Association, 1999-2000.  Authored/co-authored 8 books: Supreme Court Manual: Practice & Advocacy (Canada Law Book, 2013, Loose-leaf, updated); Injunctions Practice Guide (Carswell, 1996); Charter of Rights Annotated (Carswell, 1995 & 1996), Canadian Constitutional Documents Consolidated (Carswell, 2^nd ed. 2007), Creditors’ Remedies in Ontario (Lexis Nexis, 3^rd  ed. 2013), Constitutional Law in a Nutshell (Carswell, 4^th  ed. 2013), Creditors’ Remedies in Alberta (Carswell, 2^nd ed. 1997), The Law of Criminal Attempt in Canada (Carswell, 2^nd ed. 2000). Selected by peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013 for: Public Law, Administrative Law, and Aboriginal Law. Selected by peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014 for: Public Law, Administrative Law, and Aboriginal Law.    Has achieved an AV® Preeminent, TM Peer Review Rating as Top Rated Lawyer in Canada by Corporate Counsel magazine and Martindale-Hubbell, 2013.  Provides legal services to clients and members of the legal profession in French, English, and Scottish.  Can be contacted at emeehan@supremeadvocacy.ca

Open to the law school only.

Brian Greenspan, one of Canada's most prominent and well-regarded defence lawyers, will be speaking to the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law students.

9:30 - 11:00 am - Presentation and Q&A with 1L students regarding Professional Responsibility

11:45 - 12:55 - Presentation and Q&A with 2L students regarding preparing and arguing an appeal

Open only to Faculty of Law students.

Dr. Chidi Oguamanam will be speaking on the topic: Canada's Bill C-18: Agricultural Growth Without Farmers

Dr. Chidi Oguamanam, University of Ottawa Law Faculty, is called to the Bar in Nigeria and Canada and affiliated with the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the University of Ottawa. Formerly the Director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, some of his publications include International Law and Indigenous Knowledge (University of Toronto, 2010), Intellectual Property in Global Governance (Routledge, 2012) and Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa (University of Cape Town, 2014) [co-editor]. 

In the early 2000s, a Saskatchewan farmer exploited genetically modified canola that contained patented glyphosate-resistant gene, marketed under the Roundup Ready (herbicide) brand. He found the Roundup Ready canola growing in an isolated portion of his farm. The corporate patent holder, Monsanto Canada, successfully sued the defendant farmer for patent infringement at the Supreme Court of Canada. The operational and legal marginalization of indigenous and local community stakeholder farmers across the globe, including Canada, by agro-biotechnology stakeholders is placed in focus in the ongoing deliberations over Canada’s Bill C-18 (Agricultural Growth Act). We examine how the core aspects of plant breeders’ rights portion of omnibus Bill C-18 effectively, even if expectedly, has pulled Canada further into the world of agriculture without smallholder farmers.