As Washington State begins legal sale of marijuana and Marc Emery, Canada’s “prince of pot,” expects to be released from prison in the US today, the following University of Victoria faculty members are available to comment: Lynne Belle-Isle, a gradu…
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss the recent Federal Court decision to overturn the Conservative government’s cuts to refugee health care funding. Donald Galloway (Law) specializes in immigration law, refu…
The following University of Victoria faculty member is available in advance of National Aboriginal Day: Dr. Val Napoleon (Faculty of Law) has extensive expertise in Indigenous law, Indigenous legal theory, Indigenous feminism, citizenship and govern…
The following University of Victoria faculty member is available to discuss the Law Society of B.C.’s vote yesterday to deny Trinity Western University accreditation of its law school. Professor Jeremy Webber (Dean of Law) is a law and society schol…
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available in advance of Father’s Day: Jessica Ball (School of Child and Youth Care) is an expert on the diversity of fathers in Canada and innovative approaches to increase father involvement.…
UVic Law student Aaron Mills’ doctoral work, which explores conflicting legal orders and the workings of contemporary colonialism, has earned him substantial praise and cemented his position as a leading scholar on Canadian constitutionalism and Indigenous law. Mills is a Vanier scholar and a former Ivy League Fulbright scholar. This week, he was handed yet another honour when he was named a Trudeau scholar—one of only 14 given out this year.
University of Victoria law student Aaron Mills is being lauded as one of Canada’s best young minds for his doctoral work on modern-day colonialism reflected in the relationship between Indigenous legal traditions and Canadian constitutional law.
Congratulations to Dr. Bernie Pauly of the School of Nursing and Dr. Val Napoleon of the Faculty of Law, who have been named the inaugural recipients of the Provost’s Engaged Scholarship Award. The newly created awards program is intended to support and enhance UVic’s vision for the integration of outstanding scholarship, inspired teaching and real-life, community engagement. It recognizes tenured members of faculty who have achieved great distinction as community engaged scholars.
When people ask Renee McBeth what she does for a living, she often gives the same answer. “I tell people I’m an organizer,’’ she says with a laugh. “I depend on post-it notes and to-do lists.” Indeed, as someone who holds dual positions at UVic’s Faculty of Law, her daily balancing act requires a high degree of prioritization and time management.
If you don’t know what it means to be named a UVic Distinguished Professor, don’t fret: they’re a rare breed. The newest recipient, Dr. Susan Boyd, is only the 13th UVic professor to receive the award—the highest academic honour UVic can bestow on faculty—since its creation in 2002. Boyd’s activist presence on substantive social justice and marginalization issues has led to a tremendous scholarly output.
Congratulations to UVic’s Faculty of Law team for winning the 2014 Wilson Moot. Students Sarah Ahsan, Devon Black, Vivian Lee and Aislinn Sirk travelled to Toronto to represent UVic against 12 other Canadian law schools on February 21 and 22. It all…
BC’s proposed new liquor laws have grabbed the headlines for allowing people to buy and consume alcohol in more places, but the recommendations related to health were largely overlooked. Among the 73 recommendations of the BC Liquor Policy Review, f…
