Annual Report 2005-2006 - Osgoode Hall Law School - York ...

ACHIEVEMENTS
Professor John McCamus was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, an elite group of the
country’s top scholars and scientists.
Adjunct Professor and Osgoode alumnus James C. Morton was elected as Vice President and
President Elect of the Ontario Bar Association.
Professor Judy Fudge accepted an appointment starting in January 2007 as the Lansdowne
Chair in Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, and Professors Iain Ramsay and Toni
Williams announced that they will be taking up offers of Chairs at Kent Law School at the
University of Kent in Canterbury, England in July 2007.
John McCamus
Professor Emeritus and former Dean Peter W. Hogg received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at
Osgoode’s spring convocation on June 16, 2006. He received a similar honour from New Zealand’s
Victoria University of Wellington at its graduation ceremonies in May 2006.
Associate Dean Allan Hutchinson was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor by York
University at the 2006 Osgoode spring convocation. There is a maximum of 20 Distinguished Research
Professors at any one time at the entire University, and Hutchinson is the only active Osgoode faculty
member with this designation. Hutchinson has been invited to be the J.C. Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar
for a short period during the 2006-07 academic year at the School of Law, The University of Nottingham.
The 2006 Osgoode Teaching Awards were given to Professor Kate Sutherland (less than 10 years’
teaching experience), Professor Mary Jane Mossman (more than 10 years’ teaching experience), and
Adjunct Professor Chuck Gastle. Adjunct Professor Michael Watson received the Distinguished Service
Award. The Honourable Mr. Justice Edward Belobaba received Osgoode Professional Development’s
Part-time LLM Award and Roslyn J. Levine and Scott C. Hutchinson received OPD awards for their
contribution to non-credit programs.
Professor Joan Gilmour was selected for a residency in the spring of 2006 at the prestigious Rockefeller
Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Professors Stephanie Ben-Ishai and Roxanne Mykitiuk were awarded Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Summer Research Fellowships for 2006.
Osgoode Professors Benjamin J. Richardson and Stepan Wood were joined by colleagues and friends on
April 12, 2006 at the launch of Environmental Law for Sustainability, the book they co-edited that is the
first volume in the Osgoode-Hart Publishing reader series.
Professor Emeritus Simon Fodden was appointed Visiting Professor of Law and Technology for the 2005-06
academic year and Julia Hanigsberg, former Chief of Staff to Ontario Attorney General and Osgoode alumnus
Michael Bryant, joined Osgoode for six months as Visiting Professor of Law and Government. Professor
Chris Nicholls of Dalhousie Law School spent the fall 2005 academic term at Osgoode as Falconbridge
Professor of Commercial Law and delivered the Falconbridge Lecture on September 28, 2005.
Students
Michael Abdelkerim won third prize in the American Judges Association’s 2005 Law Student Essay
Competition involving full-time law students from Canada and the United States for his paper entitled
“Section 273.65 of the National Defence Act: Inappropriate and Unconstitutional.” The paper was
published in the AJA’s journal, Court Review.
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