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Congratulations to the following Schulich School of Law colleagues, whose work and contributions have been recently recognized in the following ways:

Kim Brooks has been appointed vice-chair of the Canada Revenue Agency's just-announced Offshore Compliance Advisory Committee (OCAC). The independent advisory committee on offshore tax evasion and aggressive tax planning will build on the measures established through Budget 2016. It will be composed of seven independent experts with significant legal, judicial, and tax administration experience. Kim is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation Board of Governors and a member of the International Fiscal Association.

Jocelyn Downie has been awarded the appointment of University Research Professor for the period of July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2021. The title is granted to a limited number of individual Dalhousie faculty members who have achieved distinction in scholarship. In 2015, Jocelyn was the first Dalhousie scholar to be named a Pierre Trudeau Trudeau Foundation Fellow, which will help advance her work on law and policy on palliative care, end-of-life treatments, voluntary euthanasia, and assisted suicide. 

Shawna Hoyte QC (LLB ’94) of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers and Dalhousie Legal Aid Service has received a 2016 CASW Distinguished Service Award. These awards are presented to remarkable social workers selected from the membership of Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) partner organizations each March during National Social Work Month and honour the significant contributions made by the social work profession in support of building stronger communities and a more equitable Canada. Shawna has taught at the Dalhousie School of Social Work (DSSW) in Cross Cultural Studies and redesigned the Social Work and Law course, which she teaches both on campus and as a distance course. 

Jennifer Llewellyn has received a federal SSHRC Insight Grant worth about $130,000 over five years that will support research on a Restorative Approach to Human Rights Theory and Practice. The project considers the implications of this approach for international and domestic human rights protection, building upon her previous and current work on international peace-building and human rights protection in Canada. She is also a co-applicant for a $200,000 Partnership Development Grant over three years that will create Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation, a “living history” 3D-imaging-technology educational tool for high school students to learn about the abuses suffered by residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Both research initiatives will involve myriad academic and community partnerships.