Research Grants

How to Apply: 

Our grants support and encourage legal writing that is of value to Canadian lawyers, notaries and judges in their day-to-day work in the law and in the administration of justice. Our grants are generally in amounts greater than $5,000 and less than or equal to $10,000.

We provide funds for legal research that falls into three broad categories:
  • 1Research and writing that emphasizes the statement of existing rules of law, which is often called doctrinal research.
  • 2Research that relates to the workings of the legal system.
  • 3Research that relates to developments in fields peripheral to legal doctrine, such as criminology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and economics, and their relationship to rules of law.
External Deadline: 
Monday, February 28, 2022
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research