Professor Vrinda Narain is the recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice鈥檚 2017 Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship. She will present results of her research project entitled 鈥淒ifference and Inclusion: Reframing Multiculturalism and Reasonable Accommodation鈥� at CIAJ鈥檚 Annual Conference on diversity this fall.

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Evan Fox-Decent has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective May 1, 2017.

In sharing the news, Dean Robert Leckey underscored how this promotion 鈥渞ecognizes [Evan鈥檚] international stature as a scholar whose work crosses disciplinary lines and occupies a major place in current debates,鈥� adding that 鈥渨hether or not scholars agree with him, they must engage with his work.鈥�

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Cristina Toteda as Faculty Lecturer in Legal Ethics, starting May 1, 2017. Me Toteda will work closely with Faculty members and engaged alumni to revise the mandatory second-year course in Legal Ethics and Professionalism and the upper-year course in Advocacy. She will teach those courses and also work with the first-year Integration Workshop course

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Omar Farahat as Assistant Professor.

Dr. Farahat completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2016, after which he worked as a Research Fellow at Yale Law School. Prior to that, he obtained a dual law degree from Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne and Cairo University in 2004, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2007, and an interdisciplinary M.A. in the humanities from New York University in 2010. He has practiced law in Cairo, New York, and Paris.

The Faculty is proud to announce that Professor Angela Campbell has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective April 1, 2017.

The Faculty of Law and the Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Baxter Family Competition:

1. First Prize: Asha Kaushal (Assistant Professor, University of British-Columbia)
   鈥淐onstitutional Jurisdictions鈥� - $5,000
2. Second Prize: Erika Arban (Lecturer, University of Antwerp)
   " Exploring the Principle of (Federal) Solidarity鈥� - $3,000
3. Third Prize: Eleonore Gauthier (Articling Student, Toronto)