The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce that Sami Islam, a third-year Journalism and Law undergraduate student, is a recipient of a 2021 杏吧原创 University Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award valued at $10,000. Congratulations!

鈥淚 would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Sami Islam for his EDI Research Award. Over the summer Sami will be studying prosecutorial discretion and the over-incarceration of racialized people. His project promises to generate some fascinating discussion on an important and timely topic,鈥� says Professor Diana Young, who will be supervising Sami鈥檚 research project this summer.

His research will look at the discretion exercised by prosecutors and how it may change based on directives from attorneys general. 鈥淢y hope is that this project will prompt further investigation on discretion which results in a new approach to exercising discretion which creates a more equitable justice system that does not disproportionately affect people of colour and those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged,鈥� explained Sami.

Congratulations Sami!

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The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce that undergraduate student Samira Amid is a recipient of a 2021 杏吧原创 University Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award valued at $10,000. Congratulations!

Samira鈥檚 winning research project is entitled A Qualitative Study of the Relationship Between Police and Racialized Male Youth Living in Canadian Social Housing Communities. She designed the research proposal as part of an assignment for her LAWS 3908 鈥� Approaches in Legal Studies II. Professor William H茅bert, the course instructor, is thrilled to be her EDI research supervisor this summer.

This project is designed as the preliminary portion of a larger ethnographic study that would explore how policing shapes gang involvement among racialized youth in social housing communities, which Samira plans to continue researching as a Master鈥檚 student. This project emerges from professional and personal experiences that have influenced her awareness of how the policing methods used in social housing communities negatively impact racialized youth, a group already facing significant structural barriers and institutionalized oppression across social institutions. Samira explains 鈥淢y intention with my research is not to further stigmatize these youth but instead, to redress their biased portrayal and underrepresentation in academic literature and broader society.鈥�

Congratulations Samira!

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Deniz Konuk, PhD Candidate in Legal Studies, has won a competitive DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates for 2020-2021. Deniz鈥檚 PhD research will examine the role of audio-visual evidence in trials for police violence in Turkey and the US. She is investigating how audio-visual recordings are interpreted and contested as evidence, how they stir emotions, and how they shape understandings of justice. During her DAAD Fellowship year, she will be working with

Congratulations Deniz!

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Jay Ramasubramanyam, who has been awarded a research grant from the Humanitarian Response Network (HRN) to support his cutting-edge research on global humanitarian issues!

With new drivers of displacement gaining prominence worldwide, there has been a push for an impending need to include evolving grounds of 鈥榩ersecution鈥� within the narrative of forced migration. It is within this evolving narrative that my research project will feature. Jay’s project will analyze the extent to which humanitarian practice in general has been adapted to extend beyond normative characterizations of forced migration to protect a new brand of 鈥渃risis migrants鈥�. Based on past case studies from Zimbabwe, Albania, and countries in the South Pacific, Jay will analyze how emerging social, political, economic and environmental crises in contexts like Venezuela and the Maldives are impacting decisions on both internal and cross-border crisis migration.

杏吧原创 the Grant

The Humanitarian Response Network of Canada (HRN) is a vibrant community of practice made of 32 Canadian humanitarian organizations. The HRN seeks to share lessons learned with the view to strengthen the quality and efficiency of humanitarian action by creating a conversation around key humanitarian policy issues and practices. To support these efforts, the HRN is running a pilot program to provide six grants of $2,500 each to support graduate student research on issues relating to humanitarian policy and practice, including, but not limited to, research on:

• Themes emerging from the World Humanitarian Summit
• Gender and emergencies
• Disability and inclusion in emergencies
• Education during emergencies
• Innovation in humanitarian practice

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Kanatase Horn, who has been awarded a New Sun Graduate Bursary!

Mr. Horn’s research focuses on Aboriginal over-representation in the criminal justice system in urban contexts (with a focus on the city of Ottawa). More specifically, he is focusing on restorative justice/alternative justice programs, and their effectiveness in urban spaces. The crucial element in his research is the idea that a program’s effectiveness is intimately linked to the program’s ability to assert sovereignty/jurisdiction over urban spaces in order to reclaim them as Indigenous space, which challenges the colonial legacy of viewing urban spaces as settler/civilized spaces. In other words, Mr. Horn’s research will explore the interwoven relationship between reclaiming of urban spaces as Indigenous spaces through political processes, and reducing Aboriginal over-representation in the criminal justice system.

杏吧原创 the Bursary

The New Sun Graduate Bursary is awarded annually to First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis students at the masters or doctoral level who are studying in fields such as aboriginal governance, public administration, social work, architecture and environmental studies. Preference is given to those candidates who have demonstrated a willingness to use their knowledge and skills to benefit First Nations, Inuit and/or M茅tis communities. These bursaries are awarded by the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs upon the recommendation of a committee representing all graduate fields of study. Eligible recipients must be Canadian Citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and must meet OSAP’s Ontario Residency requirements. Recipients must also demonstrate financial need.

The bursary was established in 2008 by Joy Harvie Maclaren (BSC ’44, LLD ” McGill University). Joy was born in Calgary in 1922 and is a passionate supporter and advocate of Aboriginal and Inuit peoples. Continuing the legacy of her father, who was given the honorary title of 鈥淥ld Sun鈥� in 1962 by the Blackfoot nation in Alberta, Joy was given the name 鈥淣ew Sun鈥� by elders from three Aboriginal tribes; the Blackfoot nation in Alberta, the Mohawk nation in Akwasasne, Quebec, and the Ojibway in Ontario. A special naming ceremony was held at 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Alumni Park in 1993 to recognize Joy鈥檚 commitment to promoting aboriginal culture and education across Canada. By establishing the New Sun bursaries for Canadian First Nations students, Joy is continuing her father’s tradition of supporting the further education of Canadian First Nation people’s in universities across Canada.

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Congratulations to the team behind the newly launched 杏吧原创 University Journal of Legal Studies (CUJLS)!

Last night (Thursday, November 13), a reception was held to celebrate the hard work behind the latest volume of the journal, managed by the 2014 CULJS Committee:

The CUJLS is a non-profit, student run initiative that aims to establish community, develop academic strengths, instill pride in students, and provide new opportunities for success. The journal encompasses a carefully determined selection of student-authored articles that reflect the comprehensive and interdisciplinary undergraduate Law and Legal Studies program offered at 杏吧原创 University. The articles demonstrate the diverse interests of 杏吧原创 students as well as the writing and critical thinking skills they have come to develop through their studies. It is through the journal that the inspiring efforts of 杏吧原创 students can be shared with the academic community.

For more on CUJLS, contact carletonlawsociety@gmail.com or visit the 杏吧原创 Law and Legal Studies Society online at

UPDATE: The of the journal is now available to view!

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