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Schulich Law Professor Jennifer Llewellyn has been appointed to the Royal Society of Canada.

Schulich Law Professors Joanna Erdman and Adelina Iftene are among the Dal researchers to receive 2020 President’s Research Excellence Awards.

Highlighting the research of Health Law and Policy students James Whittier, Amanda Steger and Andrea MacGregor.

In January 2020, Pablo Holmes arrived at the Schulich School of Law from his home country of Brazil to begin a term as a visiting scholar. Although COVID-19 has changed some of his plans, he’s decided to remain in Halifax until May and continue his research in the areas of constitutional law and political theory.

Together with the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia, Schulich Law prof Jocelyn Downie has developed an easy-to-use website app to help people to prepare a personal directive for health and personal-care decisions made on their behalf — a topic with heightened relevance given the COVID-19 pandemic.

Right now in Nova Scotia, there is much legal and political pressure to close large disability institutions where many persons have lived in highly regimented, isolated conditions. It’s something that Professor Sheila Wildeman is working to help make happen.

On December 6-7, 2019, the Canadian-Japanese Scholarly Exchange on the Law of the Sea brought together experts from both countries for the first time to exchange views on international ocean governance.

In her recent book, "Punished for Aging: Vulnerability, Rights, and Access to Justice in Canadian Penitentiaries" Schulich Law Professor Adelina Iftene looks at the issues facing our aging prision population.

This week's Dal-hosted Arctic Research Symposium brought together experts from different fields, including Professor Aldo Chircop from the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, to share their thoughts on the Arctic and to discuss major issues surrounding the region.

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Sanaa Ahmed is studying the financial regulations around money laundering in Canada, and looking at the impacts on our economy.