2019 News Archive
USask College of Law and CLASSIC presented with Sir David Watson Award for Community-University Partnership
Martin Phillipson, Dean of Law, and Associate Professor Sarah Buhler proudly accepted the Sir David Watson Award for Community University Partnerships during the National Co-ordina...
Sarah Buhler: Champion of human rights
For Sarah Buhler, human rights are a core value she has held from an early age.
USask Law graduate to clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice Wagner
Katherine Starks has an interesting few years ahead of her. The recent graduate of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law is clerking at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in ...
The Hon. Georgina Jackson and Gerald Tegart named 2019 Alumni Achievement Award recipients
The Honourable Madam Justice Georgina Jackson and Gerald Tegart are two of five USask alumni who have been named 2019 Alumni Achievement Award winners. Selected by their peers of m...
College of Law and CLASSIC honoured with international award
The University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law and CLASSIC (Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc), have recently been named co-recipients of the 2019 S...
Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre to receive $185,000 to support Innovation and Indigenization Project
The Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre will receive $185,000 in 2019-20 to support their Innovation and Indigenization Project.
Nunavut law program to establish clinic for legal training
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) legal education program designed to increase the number of practicing lawyers in Nunavut has received $341,000 through the Justice Partnership ...
USask Law PhD student awarded $105,000 by SSHRC to research spatial dimensions and implications of constitutional rights
Lawyers and judges in Canada are regularly grappling with the legal consequences of large resource development projects and their impacts on constitutional rights—particularly Indi...
A lifetime of achievement for USask College of Law professor
When Ronald C.C. Cuming began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in the 1960s, email, podcasts and video-recorded lectures did not yet exist, law classes were taugh...
USask has always been home for Bilson
Little did she know that 66 years later she would be a key member of the university’s leadership team, a leading law scholar and the longest-serving active female professor on camp...
Poitras appointed Associate Director of Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre
Poitras will begin her term on July 1, 2019.
UsaskLaw wins national environmental moot competition for the first time ever
The College of Law is celebrating after a win at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot in Toronto on March 2.
Examining guardianship law’s effectiveness
Professor Doug Surtees has devoted much of his research work to elder and disability law. His latest project is combining those two interests and taking a deep look at guardianship...
New group makes environmental law a priority
After being told time after time that she would have to move out of Saskatchewan if she wanted to work on environmental law issues, Taylor Anne Yee decided to start making her own ...
New award celebrates a mother’s legacy
The University of Saskatchewan holds a special place in Ena Chadha’s heart. It was where she received her law degree, it was where she met her husband, and it was where she began t...