ALUMNI MAGAZINE

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

SPRING 2016

DISPATCHES FROM THE ENERGY INDUSTRY Thank you to Moodys Gartner LLP for your generous five-year, $100,000 gift in support of the Bowman National Tax Moot team and student research assistantships to aid faculty research in the area of taxation law.

JENNY KHAKH Aspiring Mooter // Class 2018 DEAN’S MESSAGE Spring 2016

UAlberta Law ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING 2016

EDITOR Jill Rutherford elcome to the Spring 2016 issue of Without Prejudice, the University of ASSISTANT EDITOR WAlberta Faculty of Law alumni magazine. As alumni, you are members Gillian Reid of a community more than 100 years in the making; a community with a distinguished tradition of learning the law and engaging in public service ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN – locally, nationally, and internationally. In this issue, we look back on the Backstreet Communications year that was to celebrate the many accomplishments of our faculty, staff, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS students, and alumni. Our cover story examines the challenges facing the Matthew Dolan, Jeff Kubik, Gillian Reid, energy industry, with commentary from professors David Percy, Q.C. and Jill Rutherford, Michael Swanberg Dr. Cameron Jefferies, as well as from distinguished alumni providing counsel or leading change in an industry critical to and . Visit us online at The 2015-2016 academic year had many highlights – flip to the Year in www.lawschool.ualberta.ca and find us on: Review section to see a selection of photos – including the swearing in to the of The Honourable Mr. Justice ; the promotion to full Professor of Cameron Hutchison and Vice Dean Moin Yahya; the announcement of three new Assistant Professors to the Faculty and two Visiting Without Prejudice is published annually Assistant Professors to increase our scholarly depth, strength, and diversity; by the Faculty of Law, with a circulation and a tremendously successful competitive moot season for our students. of more than 7,000. It is distributed to As my second year as Dean draws to a close, my focus remains change alumni, faculty, students, staff, and friends of the , Faculty of Law. management and transformation, to preserve the best of our past and to All material is copyright ©2016, and may prepare our students for a challenging future. This includes ensuring top not be reprinted without express written quality curriculum for our students, attracting and retaining outstanding permission of the author. faculty, investing in frontline student services, fostering student mental Editor’s Note: All content submitted for health and wellness, and supporting inclusiveness and diversity. Each of publication is subject to editing. In some these priorities is driven by a desire to ensure that our students receive a cases, personal pronouns in Class Notes transformative law school experience at the University of Alberta, one that have been changed to first person. prepares them to make their mark – not only in the legal profession, but Canada Post Publications Agreement also in the community. No. 40063511 To that end, next year we are embarking on the development of a new PRINTED IN CANADA strategic plan for the Faculty – which will align with the University’s Institutional McCallum Printing Group, Inc. Strategic Plan for the coming decade – to ensure that we are well equipped to continue to respond to student needs. We will report on this in next year’s Return undeliverable copies to: magazine – and on the launch of our new Career Services Centre expected this Faculty of Law University of Alberta fall – but in the meantime, I’d like to thank you, our alumni, for your continued 177 Law Centre support of our faculty and students, and for modelling the important traditions , AB T6G 2H5 of professionalism and service that are critical to our mission.

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FEATURES 8 Dean’s Update

Dispatches From the Energy Industry UAlberta Law professors and alumni on the challenges and opportunities 10 facing the industry

36 Moot Court Program

A Commitment to the Law and Community: The Wachowich / 44 Wachowicz Family in Alberta

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SECTIONS Alberta Law Review Spring Reception 35 Moot Court Program 36 Students Earn Prestigious Clerkships 38 Faculty Update In Conversation With... Terry Adido 39 University Update 17 Visiting Speakers 40 Activities 18 In the Media 20 In Gratitude Publications 21 Sessional Instructors 41 Honouring Teaching Excellence 22 In Memoriam: Alexander Pringle, Q.C. 23 Reunions Awards 24 Reunions 2015 42 From Law Professor to Alumni Weekend 2015 43 Canada’s Highest Court 25 From Classroom to Courtroom 26 Law School Legacies 44 New Assistant Professor and Visiting Assistant Professor Appointments 27 Class Notes 46

Students on the Move Recognition Faculty Celebrates Grand Law Students’ Association’s Re-Opening of McLennan Ross Hall 48 Mental Health and Wellness Committee Recognized 29 Staff Stories Magna Carta Visits Edmonton 30 Climbing to New Heights 49 Law Show 2016 31 Aboriginal Speaker Series 32 The Odishaw Family Philosophy 50 Faculty Celebrates UAlberta Pride Week 2016 34 Gift Report 51

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Dean’s BBQ Dean Paton, Dino Bottos, Peter Sankoff and Eric Adams join Guba to welcome the Dean Paton, former Deans Percy and Bryden, Class of 2018. and a number of faculty members travelled to the Supreme Court for the welcoming ceremony for the newest member of the Court – the Hon. Mr. Justice Russell Brown – hosted by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (LLB ’68). Justice Brown was a distinguished member of 1 SEPTEMBER 2015 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 our faculty from 2004-2013.

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Orientation Week Opening ceremonies for the Class of 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards featured a welcome from Dean Paton, On September 24, 2015 the Faculty of Law ceremonial blessing from Eric Daniels, an welcomed Francis Saville (BA ’62, LLB Aboriginal Elder, remarks from Law Society ’65) and Alan Fielding (BA ’65, LLB ’69), of Alberta President James Eamon, Q.C., recipients of the University of Alberta 2015 Court of Appeal Justice the Hon. Madam Distinguished Alumni Award and Honour The Faculty of Law hosted a number of Justice Myra B. Bielby, and a keynote Award respectively for a special luncheon Magna Carta-themed events during the address from The Right Hon. Kim Campbell, in their honour. historic document’s visit to Edmonton. PC, CC, OBC, Q.C. A highlight was student group Ms. Magna Carta’s successful event attended by approximately 300 guests at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Visitor Centre.

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A Case for Claus A special visitor stopped by the Law Centre to distribute gifts to the children of our faculty and staff. Law Show: Ferris Buellaw’s Farewell Celebration Day Off On April 19, the Faculty of Law hosted a The 20th anniversary of the Law Show – a farewell celebration for Professor Gerald tribute to the 1980s classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Robertson, Q.C., and Professor Elaine Off – took place at the Horowitz Performing Hughes, to honour their many years of Arts Theatre on February 5-6, 2016. dedicated service to the Faculty and to the broader legal community. 7 JANUARY 2016

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Dean Paton attended the Alberta Law Conference in where Professor Mitchell McInnes was presented with the Distinguished Service Award for Scholarship and Christine Pratt was presented with the Distinguished Service Award in Pro Bono Legal The Faculty of Law and the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (ISMSS) hosted Service by the Canadian Bar Association – a UAlberta Pride Week event regarding human rights advocacy for same sex rights in the Alberta Branch and the Law Society of Caribbean. At this event we also had a chance to share some good news. Members of three Alberta at their annual Distinguished of our student groups – OUTlaw, an advocacy group founded in 2008 to serve and aid LGBTI Service Awards ceremony. law students and their allies, the Golden Bearristers rugby team, and the Tortfeasors hockey team – presented a cheque for $1,500 to Dr. Kris Wells, a representative of You Can Play, an organization committed to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.

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OCTOBER JANUARY MARCH MAY SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER FEBUARY 2016 2015 2015 DECEMBER2016 APRIL 2016 2015 2015 2016 2016

The 2015-2016 academic for student mental health counselling and referral services based at year saw the seeds of the Faculty. I am also hiring new transformation sown in 2014- staff to provide greater assistance 2015 start to grow at an with financial aid counselling, and have asked Vice Dean Moin Yahya unrelenting pace. We’ve turned to lead a committee to provide a corner and – with the help recommendations for Aboriginal and of our committed alumni – we Indigenous academic and cultural supports which we will implement and two extremely promising visiting will work with our students to next year. This year we doubled our assistant professors. This renewal continue building enhanced Career Services capacity, enhancing is critical for our ongoing success. our ability to provide advice on career access to an outstanding Further details on these appointments options and recruitment processes, can be found on page 27. I have an faculty and a transformative and offer programming to prepare ambitious plan for hiring to continue law school experience. Here students for legal careers. Our Career over the next two years. are some key milestones: Services Officers also liaise with the legal community throughout Canada STUDENT SERVICES to assist with the recruitment of FACULTY HIRING Investing in frontline services to our students for both traditional After a period of dramatic support our students is one of the and non-traditional placements. reduction in faculty complement, I key priorities of my Deanship. This I’m proud to report that last year, was extremely pleased to hire three year, with support from ASSIST, we more than 95% of our graduating outstanding tenure-track faculty launched a successful pilot program students secured articling positions.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 8 // Even in a tough economy, we’re for example, we are not able to rely on doing really well this year, pulling DEAN’S EXTERNAL traditional support of approximately out the stops to help students find ADVISORY BOARDS $300,000 annually from the Alberta Law articling positions across Alberta, Foundation for our bursary program, so BC, and . In addition, we have In 2015 I reconfigured the Dean’s I will be working to secure – and add to repurposed space for a new Career External Advisory Board (EAB) – these funds for student financial aid Services Centre, scheduled to open into four separate, smaller, support from other sources. this fall. We are seeking sponsorship boards; one for Edmonton, for that project and appreciate COMMUNICATIONS your support. Calgary, , and . I sought representation that In February, Jill Rutherford joined us to overhaul the Faculty’s strategic DEVELOPMENT would reflect a broader range communications portfolio. One of I’m pleased to report that for of practice environments, years her key priorities is repositioning 2015-2016 the Faculty raised a total of experience, gender and the Faculty’s website to ensure of $1.9M – including new pledges, racial diversity, and traditional that the content is current and gifts, and planned gift expectancies – / non-traditional perspectives accurately reflects the quality against a stretch target of $1.5M. In and views. The feedback and research and teaching being done comparison, for 2014-2015 we raised by our professors. It also needs to advocacy we receive from the $1.7M plus a planned gift of $1M, better highlight faculty, staff, student, for a total of $2.7M, against a target members of the EABs is essential and alumni achievements. She of $1.3M. This year’s achievement to ensure that the Faculty moves will also explore new channels for is particularly remarkable given a forward as it should and that communicating faculty and student challenging economy for individuals, we’re preparing our students activities and successes. firms, and other supporters. We – and to face whatever challenges especially our students – thank you for STRATEGIC PLANNING your generous contributions. come their way. I am personally Next year we are embarking on a Going forward, we are working grateful to the members of the strategic planning process to guide on a number of gift proposals, EABs for contributing their time, the Faculty forward. My reconfigured ranging from financial support for enthusiasm, and expertise. External Advisory Boards emphasized our unfunded moots, to renovation I meet with the EABs twice a the importance of this in our meetings of the Career Services Centre and year and look forward to our next last fall. The Faculty’s strategic Gavel student lounge, to student series of meetings in June 2016. plan will align with the University’s research assistantships, scholarships, Institutional Strategic Plan for the and bursaries. To assist in these next decade, which will be before endeavours, I have completed more the Board of Governors for approval than 100 visits this year working to need. This year I was also able to in June 2016. I’ve been in extended lay the foundation for gifts to the make much needed funds available consultations about how best to Faculty. During these visits I have for faculty research and an additional embark on a comprehensive and communicated a renewed emphasis strategic planning process for the on individual and legacy giving. While $25,000 for summer research Faculty. To start, we have retained all forms of support are critical, support. My goal is to announce external experts to help us identify individual alumni contributions can a similar fund for the fall and to critical issues for focus and to make a big difference, especially continue to enhance student research undertake necessary preparatory during challenging times. I have assistantships and other indirect research. They have conducted a made a number of visits to law supports through fundraising and series of stakeholder interviews to firms to make the case for individual development activities. An example help gather this information: one-on- giving to partners and associates. of this is the generous $100,000 gift one interviews with faculty members, Your advocacy and financial support we received this year from Moodys administrators, alumni in government, is essential to help ensure our Gartner LLP: $50,000 for a five-year and alumni in firms or industry; online students’ continued success. sponsorship of the Bowman Tax Moot, focus groups with students and alumni and $50,000 for five years of funding round out these initial consultations. FINANCE of student research assistantships in We will update and engage a wide We successfully advocated for a tax and related subjects. range of perspectives as we move doubling of student support funding A focus on funding continues to be forward. 2016-2017 promises to in areas of critical and immediate essential for our success. Next year, be an equally exciting year.

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University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 10 // By: Jill Rutherford DISPATCHES FROM THE ENERGY INDUS RY UAlberta Law professors and alumni on the challenges and opportunities facing the industry

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avid Percy, Q.C. is no “As the downturn shows, we are stranger to the boom- just one component in a worldwide and-bust cycle in the industry that is shaped by politics as oil and gas industry. well as economics. Students need Professor Percy, the to understand the most reliable Borden Ladner Gervais projections of future demand and D(BLG) Chair of Energy Law and Policy, the role that will be played both by has taught oil and gas law for almost carbon-based fuels and renewables, 30 years at the University of Alberta which will shape the future of the Faculty of Law. energy industry.” The oil and gas curriculum at the Faculty of Law involves the application of principles from contracts, torts, property, and administrative law to a specialized environment with a specialized vocabulary. “My objective is to ensure that students leave my Oil & Gas Law class with a firm understanding of this legal framework and a sufficient grasp of the terminology to understand what participants in the industry, regulators, and NGOs are talking DAVID PERCY, Q.C. about,” says Percy. “The current downturn has been What do our alumni say about their deep and rapid and has caused education in this area of the law? more widespread job losses than its “The Oil & Gas Law and Advanced predecessors,” he says. “That is partly Oil & Gas courses I took provided because the Alberta energy industry is exceptional grounding in the core so much bigger than in the past.” legal principles governing energy,” While a challenging time for the says Randall Block, Q.C. (LLB ’84), a industry, Percy reminds us that things partner in the Commercial Litigation are not as bad as in the 1980s, when and Regulatory Law Group in BLG’s the collapse of energy prices combined to cause huge economic dislocation for a decade. Like any cyclical industry, the present decline in investment will ultimately result in rising prices. “World demand for oil is about 95 million barrels a day and still increasing, even in a sluggish international economy,” he says. So how does a law school prepare students for a legal career in such a volatile industry? Percy says that understanding the history and international context of the oil and gas industry, and the role played by Alberta and Canada, is crucial. RANDALL BLOCK, Q.C.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 12 // Calgary office. “In addition, the U of A’s focus on core legal principles provided the bedrock to be applied to different types of cases. BLG endowed the Chair of Energy Law and Policy in part to continually assess and comment on not only energy law, but the confluence of politics and policy that shape Albertans’ energy future.”

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY DR. CAMERON JEFFERIES Block also adds that energy legal issues cannot be decoupled from and environmental priorities, but the , one of Dr. Cameron environment side often came up short. Jefferies’ (LLB ’09) specialties. “It’s the role of a regulatory or Jefferies teaches environmental and legislative body to make sure the sustainability law at the Faculty, where ROXANNA BENOIT environment piece of the puzzle is he has been appointed Assistant properly accounted for,” he says. Professor, effective July 1, 2016. local, provincial/state and federal Recent regulatory changes and governments; developing strong “The development of our energy the release of Alberta’s Climate relationships in the communities resources is necessary,” says Leadership Plan have definitely in which Enbridge operates and Jefferies, “but we need to ensure altered the playing field for those in in which Enbridge is proposing that we develop those resources in the energy industry. Jefferies argues and constructing new projects; a way that helps us transition to a that hopefully these changes will help and fostering relationships with more sustainable society. Achieving the industry continue to innovate. Indigenous communities. that balance is the key.” “We are already a leader in oil Enbridge is well known for its Jefferies recently developed a sands extraction techniques,” he commitment to corporate social sustainability law course for JD says, “and we are just scratching the responsibility (CSR); the company has students examining theoretical surface of what can be achieved if we been named to multiple CSR rankings, perspectives and exploring how apply our brainpower and penchant including seven straight appearances domestic laws can be used to for innovation to the renewable on the Corporate Knights’ Global 100 achieve balance in the development energy sector, because we need Most Sustainable list of resources vis a vis protecting both renewable energy and fossil (2010 through 2016) and numerous the environment. He is keen to fuels to power our modern world.” inclusions on the Dow Jones communicate that sustainability is Sustainability Indices over the past more than a buzzword. Fortunately, University of Alberta Faculty of Law graduates are there decade. What people may not know is “Sustainability as a legal term to help the energy industry navigate that Enbridge is also one of Canada’s came out of the Rio Declaration in current challenges and opportunities. largest renewable energy companies, 1992, but the concept of sustainability with $5 billion in renewable assets. in the context of natural resource One of these assets is Alberta’s management goes back to the 1500s,” CORPORATE SOCIAL newest wind farm, the 300-megawatt he says. “The use of forests for timber RESPONSIBILITY & (MW) Blackspring Ridge project, just for the ship-building industry, for COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT outside the town of Carmangay. example, needed to be managed and Roxanna Benoit (LLB ‘85) has been “Enbridge takes our commitment controlled in many areas of the world.” Vice President, Public & Government to sustainability very seriously,” Jefferies notes that sustainability Affairs for Enbridge since 2013. says Benoit. “Because we deliver as it was framed in the 1980s and 90s She is responsible for managing various forms of energy, including was about balancing economic, social, the company’s relationships with renewables, natural gas, and crude

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“A lot of brilliant people have to put in a lot of effort before these projects can be brought into operation in a safe, economic, and environmentally responsible way,” Ignasiak says. MARTIN IGNASIAK oil, we’re uniquely positioned to For the Northern Gateway pipeline, Martin Ignasiak (LLB ’98), a partner help bridge society’s transition to as an example, the company offered at Osler and the national co-chair of a lower-carbon future – playing a Indigenous communities equity the firm’s Regulatory, Environmental, leadership role in climate change ownership in the project. Aboriginal and Land Group, are also helping their clients navigate the issues, while also meeting growing “If we benefit from a project, so current challenges. global energy demands. That includes should communities,” says Benoit. reducing the environmental footprint “We work very closely with our “We actively look to partner with of our pipeline business. We’ve taken communities along the right-of-way, our clients to ride out the storm,” says steps to enhance the efficiency of with existing equity partners and Block. “This ranges from creative fee our system, reduce emissions, and with others, to develop a partnership arrangements to manage legal costs, publicly disclose our progress. We are and a good working relationship.” to helping with insolvency and work always reviewing and monitoring our outs, to litigation to protect rights.” How is Enbridge navigating the programs to make sure we’re getting The current regulatory environment current challenges in the energy the best results that we can.” poses complicated challenges, industry? An important aspect of operating notes Ignasiak, especially regulatory sustainably is also building and “We believe it’s important to strike regimes associated with major nurturing good relationships with the the right balance between society’s resource infrastructure projects. collective need for energy and communities along the right-of-way. Block adds: “Projects are now the importance of environmental “We are in regular communication subject to much greater scrutiny and protection,” she says. “We work with all the communities we operate this leads to complexities in managing to understand and reflect on our in,” says Benoit. “At Enbridge, we take efficient litigated regulatory processes. customers’ challenges. There are a a shared values approach. We share Often, sustainability, Aboriginal number of issues at play at the moment the same values as our neighbours relations, and social license issues – broader, more public issues, such as because many of our employees live underlay these disputes that must confidence in the regulatory system and in the same communities where they be resolved or adjudicated.” ongoing changes to project approval work. We have a vested interest in On the subject of Aboriginal relations, processes – and we’re trying to address operating responsibly, and through how does Ignasiak counsel his clients? this unpredictability as best we can.” ongoing community engagement, we “Aboriginal groups present both can work through any issues together REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT challenges and opportunities for before they become a challenge.” project proponents,” he says. “The Enbridge also has a unique & ABORIGINAL RELATIONS key to identifying opportunities is to approach to working with Indigenous A few downtown Calgary engage in consultation early and at peoples living along its rights-of-way. streets away, Randall Block and the appropriate levels.”

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 14 // Given the current There’s been a lot of talk lately INTERNATIONAL challenges facing about the challenge of getting large- LEADERSHIP scale industrial projects approved in the Canadian energy Canada in a timely manner. Ignasiak’s Faculty of Law graduates such industry, how does prescription is as follows. as Block, Benoit, and Ignasiak are making their mark on the energy “Consult early and often with Brazil’s energy industry at home, but also abroad. everyone: Aboriginal groups, industry compare? stakeholders, and regulators,” he Andrew Haynes (LLB ‘96) is a says. “Proponents need to listen partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, and to concerns. I’ve worked on major the current co-head of the firm’s Brazil projects where proponents have made office. Andrew embarked on a global major changes to their projects to journey in the oil & gas industry in address a community’s concern. This 2000, moving overseas and going on can involve moving a water intake, to hold senior executive legal roles in providing access to traditional land BG Group plc (formerly British Gas) in users, or changing the route of a London, Asia, and South America, and water diversion. Consultation can ultimately serving as the company’s often lead to a community’s legitimate Deputy General Counsel overseeing all concerns being addressed.” M&A and Treasury activities globally. When BP plc suffered the Macondo And as for an overall game plan to incident in the Gulf of Mexico, Andrew guide clients through the regulatory was recruited by BP to be their process? Associate General Counsel Corporate “We set out the most efficient plan at the London head office overseeing ANDREW HAYNES while at the same time ensuring that all legal aspects of their US$45 billion the outcome at the end of the day is a disposal program and M&A globally, are now much more specialized set of approvals and permits that allow as well as helping the Treasury among companies focused on for the development of a project to department re-build BP’s balance each of exploration, developments, proceed on an economic basis and in an sheet. After completing the BP disposal or production, with much of the acceptable timeframe,” says Ignasiak. program, Andrew moved back to Rio required funding for exploration or He is quick to point out how Alberta de Janeiro with his wife and children production activities coming directly and Canada benefit from resource to open Norton Rose Fulbright’s new from private equity or pension funds. development projects. office in the region focusing on the oil There has also been a tremendous & gas industry in South America. increase in state-owned companies “A lot of brilliant people have to owning resources and undertaking put in a lot of effort before these Since 2000, Andrew has seen a real major projects in countries, with projects can be brought into evolution in the practice of law in the giant companies from China, Russia, operation in a safe, economic, and energy and natural resources sector. and Brazil taking on major projects environmentally responsible way,” “The key change I’ve witnessed is globally, displacing many of the North he says. “Significant technical and the increased diversity of players and American and European companies engineering innovation was required financiers in the energy and natural we would be familiar with.” to make the oil sands viable. These resources sectors,” he says. “When projects employ a lot of people and I first began working in the sector, Given the current challenges facing provide for a lot of families. Many of large oil & gas or energy companies the Canadian energy industry, how the social programs and government listed on a stock exchange would be does Brazil’s energy industry compare? services provided in Alberta and the principal players in the sector “The Brazilian oil & gas industry across Canada are funded in part and would generally raise finance is blessed with better geological by the incredible wealth that these for projects from the capital markets opportunities in the offshore Pre-Salt projects have created. I’m very or banks using their own balance Santos Basin than anywhere else in proud to have been a part of that, sheets. The oil & gas, energy and the world, save for perhaps the Persian if even just a small part.” other natural resources sectors Gulf,” says Haynes. “The problems the

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sector faces result from a government “Law school taught me to take complicated pushing all development of the Pre- Salt Santos Basin onto Petrobras – challenges, break them into the component parts, the Brazilian state-owned oil company resolve the issues related to those parts and then – and saddling it with a great deal of debt, all of which it is struggling to put the whole back together,” Benoit says. deal with, not to mention the serious corruption issues which arose under the current government.” ADVICE FOR THE NEXT Martin Ignasiak echoes Haynes’ As for the Brazilian regulatory GENERATION compliments about his legal education. environment, Haynes says that it is “The Faculty’s emphasis on certain What advice do UAlberta Law more stringent and complex than critical first-year courses, such as alumni have for the next generation in Canada, and also creates more administrative law, was of substantial of energy lawyers? obstacles to business. Regarding benefit to me,” he says. “In addition, social license issues, there are Andrew Haynes credits David Percy the student body was diverse in so similar considerations to those with helping give him a start in the many ways: politically, culturally, and faced in Canada. oil business. demographically. I think experiencing When asked about his insights “I had a fantastic grounding in oil such diversity can only benefit into the energy industry in emerging & gas and natural resources law someone’s career. When I talk to markets, Haynes says that he sees from courses with David,” he says. young people I always tell them that Canadian mining companies, banks, and “David remains to this day one of the even if they aren’t sure they want to investors going abroad and succeeding most knowledgeable people about practice law, they should seriously globally in the mining sector, but much oil & gas law I have encountered; he consider the U of A Faculty of Law.” less so in the energy sector. really provided me with an excellent Roxanna Benoit says that law foundation for a career in the oil & “I hope that more Canadian school taught her a way of thinking gas industry.” companies, banks, and investors and of approaching problems. will have the confidence to go abroad “Law school taught me to take and seize opportunities in emerging complicated challenges, break them markets that are currently being into the component parts, resolve the taken by others today.” issues related to those parts and then put the whole back together,” she says. Randall Block emphasizes the importance of learning the business. “Young lawyers starting out in the practice of energy law need to follow their clients’ business,” he says. “It’s a fascinating industry with constant technological innovation. It’s also populated with great people who can become lifelong friends.”

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UNIVERSITY UPDATE: 2015-2016 Academic Year

he 2015-2016 academic year brought new leadership The plan is designed to build a Tto the University of Alberta and the development of an institutional strategic plan for the next decade. On July shared vision for the university; one 1, 2015, the university welcomed David Turpin, CM, PhD, that reflects its mission and values. It LLD, FRSC as its new president and vice-chancellor, and Steven Dew, PhD, P. Eng as its is also intended to coordinate efforts new provost and vice-president (academic). On February 25, 2016, and maximize finite resources. former Edmonton city councillor Michael Phair, MEd, MA was Mr. Stollery has strong ties to the Faculty of Law. He appointed chair of the Board of has taught as a sessional instructor, currently serves on Governors for a three-year term the Dean’s External Advisory Board, and sponsors the and on May 6, Douglas R. Stollery, Faculty’s Wilson Moot team, which honours the legacy of Q.C. (LLB ’76) was elected Madam Justice Bertha Wilson through an annual national chancellor for a four-year term constitutional law advocacy competition for law students. DOUGLAS R. STOLLERY, Q.C. beginning June 15, 2016. Mr. Stollery has also served as a director of the Alberta Law Reform Institute. He is the recipient of numerous Prior to joining the U of A, Dr. Turpin was a professor of awards, including the Canadian General Counsel Lifetime biology and president emeritus at the , Achievement Award, the University of Alberta Distinguished where he served as president from 2000–2013. Dr. Turpin is Alumni Award, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee a member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Medal. In his role as chancellor, Mr. Stollery will serve as Society of Canada. He was awarded the Steacie Memorial the honorary head of the university, chair the university Fellowship in 1989, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal in Senate, and serve as a member of the board of governors, 2002, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. In among other duties. his role as president, Dr. Turpin provides the university with strategic leadership, oversees operational and change INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN management processes, represents and upholds academic credibility, and leads the university’s external relations. For the Public Good is the university’s institutional strategic Dr. Dew, a three-time recipient of the Faculty of plan; its roadmap for the next decade. The plan – available Engineering Teaching Award, was previously Associate at www.ualberta.ca – is designed to build a shared vision Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Engineering. In his role for the university; one that reflects its mission and values. as provost, Dr. Dew is responsible for institutional planning It is also intended to coordinate efforts and maximize finite and administration in all aspects of academic operations. resources. The plan was drafted with assistance from the He is also chief academic officer of the university and Institutional Strategic Planning Advisory Committee and in leads the development, implementation, and continuous consultation with numerous stakeholders. From November improvement of academic programs and services. 2015 – February 2016, more than 30 meetings were held across all U of A campuses, including five forums and five In addition to his role as chair of the Board of Governors roundtables. More than 860 people have been consulted in – the university’s governing body – Mr. Phair is an adjunct person, and feedback was also received online. In March professor in the Faculty of Education and a member of the 2016, the first draft of the plan was released for feedback, Institute for Sexual Minority Studies & Services advisory and the final draft was presented at General Faculties committee. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Council (GFC) on May 16. The plan will be presented to Jubilee Medal, the Canada 125 Medal, and the Edmonton Journal Citizen of the Year. the Board of Governors for approval on June 17, 2016.

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aculty continue to be recognized for their expertise and accomplishments Fand are sought after by legal academic and non-academic communities around the world. Here are a few examples of recent achievements:

SUPREME COURT of CANADA CITATIONS

SUPREME COURT PROFESSOR CAMERON HUTCHISON of CANADA DECEMBER 2015 APPEARANCES Professor Hutchison’s recent scholarship on technological neutrality in copyright law was quoted three times in Madam Justice Abella’s dissenting judgment in CBC v SODRAC. The issue in that case was whether the CBC, which had obtained a license to broadcast a work (the performance right) also had to pay a fee for the making of incidental copies to facilitate the broadcast (the reproduction right). Justice Abella held that incidental copies made for the purpose of making a broadcast are not copies, for the purpose of copyright, and thus not compensable.

PROFESSOR ROD WOOD NOVEMBER 2015 Professor Rod Wood’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law (Irwin Law, 2009) was cited extensively in two recent SCC decisions. In Alberta (Attorney General) v Moloney, the Court held PROFESSOR PETER SANKOFF that a provision in the Traffic Safety Act that allowed the suspension of a driver’s licence of a driver who failed to NOVEMBER 9, 2015 pay compensation in respect of an uninsured car accident Professor Sankoff appeared at the frustrated the fresh start policy of bankruptcy law. SCC on behalf of Animal Justice as an In (Attorney General) v Lemare Lake Logging intervenor in R v DLW, a case that will Ltd, the Court held that Saskatchewan farm protection determine the scope of section 160 of legislation did not conflict with the national receivership the Criminal Code – the prohibition provisions in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. against bestiality. He argued that protecting animals from exploitation and the risk of harm is a key objective PROFESSOR PETER SANKOFF of the bestiality offence. JUNE 2015 In R v Tatton, the SCC revised its approach to defining the offences for which intoxication will be available as a defence, based in part on Professor Sankoff’s co-authored text Manning, Mewett & Sankoff, Criminal Law, 4th ed.

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PROFESSOR Presentations INTERNATIONAL PETER CARVER PROFESSOR Sproul Research LOCAL LINDA REIF Fellowship National Human (Berkeley) PROFESSOR Rights Institutions JUNE 2015 TAMARA in Providing BUCKWOLD Access to Justice Professor Carver was speaks to CBA awarded the John SEPTEMBER 2015 Creditor-Debtor A. Sproul Research Fellowship by the Canadian Studies Program Law Section Professor Reif participated in an of the University of California at Berkeley for SEPTEMBER 2015 experts meeting the Winter 2016 term. Professor Carver used Professor Buckwold on “The Role of National Human Rights the fellowship to engage in a comparative presented to the CBA Institutions in Providing Access to Justice” study of the uses of executive discretion in Creditor-Debtor Law Section on “Distributing a at the University of Essex in the U.K. each country’s immigration system. Surplus in Mortgage Foreclosure Proceedings: The Rights of Writ Holders and the Status of PROFESSOR ROD WOOD the Principal Residence Exemption.” Awards and Appointments Completes Year as Estey Chair of Business Law NATIONAL PROFESSOR JUNE 2015 JOANNA Professor Wood returned to Edmonton in HARRINGTON June 2015 after completing his responsibilities Fulbright Award as the inaugural Estey Chair of Business Law at the College of Law, University of SEPTEMBER 2015 Saskatchewan during the 2014-15 academic year. While in , Professor Wood taught Professor Harrington was selected for courses in bankruptcy law and in corporate the prestigious restructuring law, and gave presentations to Fulbright Canada the CBA Saskatchewan Bankruptcy Section Visiting Research Chair in Policy Studies and the Business Law North Section on recent at The University of Texas at Austin. developments in bankruptcy law and secured Harrington’s research project focuses transactions law. He also delivered a presentation ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GAIL on the procedural and remedial aspects to the bankruptcy panel at the Saskatchewan HENDERSON and DR. ANNA LUND of international human rights litigation, Court of Queen’s Education Seminar. present at the Canadian Law & Society particularly in urgent situations of grave Association Annual Conference human rights violations. JUNE 2015 China Fellowship Assistant Professor Henderson and incoming Assistant Professor Lund JUNE 2015 presented “Banking on the Public Interest” Professor Harrington was selected by the as part of a panel at the Canadian Law & Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Society Association annual conference in to spend time in China as part of a . Presenters on the panel explored the recruitment program run by the State public interests served by mainstream banks Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs to in Canadian society and the social issues attract foreign academics and entrepreneurs PROFESSOR BRUCE ZIFF that arise when they fail to fulfill their social to China on a short-term basis. The visiting Appointed Associate Director responsibilities. The panel also examined fellowship allowed Harrington to spend time of folkwaysAlive! ways in which the law could encourage in Shanghai as a visiting professor, where banks to fulfill these responsibilities. she taught a course on international dispute JUNE 2015 settlement and built collaborative links with Professor Ziff accepted a three-year appointment her host institution, the Shanghai University as the Associate Director of folkwaysAlive!, a of Political Science and Law. unit within the Faculty of Arts, starting on July 1, 2015. He will remain with the Faculty of Law while undertaking these new responsibilities.

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The Globe & Mail: Constitutional surrounding assisted suicide or be happy The Lawyers Weekly: LSUC takes Jurisdiction over the Métis with what the federal government decides. most controversial ABS idea off Story also appears in the Ottawa Citizen the table APRIL 15, 2016 (online), 630 CHED Radio, NewsTalk 770 Professor Eric Adams pens an opinion piece Radio, Dinner TV and Metro News Edmonton. OCTOBER 5, 2015 on what’s next after Daniels v Canada. Dean Paton is quoted extensively in an Canadian Press: When ‘death isn’t article on alternative business structures Edmonton Journal: Questions staring you in the face:’ Murder and the possible tremendous dissonance at heart of high-priced ethics cases in court without bodies non-lawyer ownership of firms could introduce across Canada. review could have been answered MARCH 14, 2016 on the cheap Professor Steven Penney comments on the Financial Post: Court rulings are APRIL 13, 2016 Travis Vader murder trial in the story, which threatening resource investment Professor Cameron Hutchison pens an ran on CTV News, 630 CHED’s website, the in Yukon, study warns opinion piece about an ethics review Thompson Citizen, CityNews Toronto, and involving former premier Redford. the Toronto Star. SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor Malcolm Lavoie CBC Radio: The Current Canadian Lawyer: Law Dean is quoted in a story about how Canadian Challenge courts are undermining modern land claim APRIL 5, 2016 agreements and threatening investment in FEBRUARY 1, 2016 Professor Peter Sankoff participates in a the country’s resource sector. panel discussion about the aftermath of Dean Paton is quoted in an article about the Ghomeshi trial. leadership challenges in Canada’s Globe and Mail: Minority law schools. governments: the constitutional National Post: Should naturopaths rules of the game be restricted from treating children Salon: 2015 was a banner year for after tragic death of Alberta toddler? nonfiction — here are 10 books SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 you don’t want to miss Professor Eric Adams explains the APRIL 4, 2016 JANUARY 4, 2016 constitutional conventions that govern Professor Timothy Caulfield says the tragic a minority parliament in Canada. death is exposing the sharp and dangerous Professor Timothy Caulfield’s book, limits of naturopathic medicine. “Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Alberta Primetime: Immunizing Everything?” is named among the our children The Lawyers Weekly: The ten top notable books of 2015. Insufficiency of Diplomatic SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 Edmonton Journal: Edmonton Assurances to Protect Human Rights Professor Ubaka Ogbogu is interviewed judge’s ruling exposes disturbing about vaccinating children as the school MARCH 29, 2016 flaws in Vader case year begins. Professor Joanna Harrington is quoted DECEMBER 16, 2015 extensively in an article concerning a recent Edmonton Journal: Opinion: BC Court of Appeal extradition decision, Professor Steven Penney comments about Should the law require bystanders how RCMP handled the Vader case in the highlighting the need to give practical effect to help? to fundamental human rights protection in disappearance of a St. Albert couple. cross-border crime. SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 Lexpert: Uber for Lawyers Professor Mitchell McInnes pens opinion Edmonton Journal: Panel at NOVEMBER 20, 2015 piece discussing whether bystanders should be required to help people in distress. University of Alberta grapples Dean Paton’s column on how legal with doctor-assisted death professionals think they control the pace of MARCH 18, 2016 change, but innovators aren’t waiting around. Professor Ubaka Ogbogu says the provincial government has to get moving on policies

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Books

Canadian Press: Five things to MANNING, MEWITT AND SANKOFF: CRIMINAL LAW know before Nigel Wright testifies 5TH EDITION (LEXISNEXIS, 2015) at Mike Duffy trial Peter Sankoff, Co-author AUGUST 19, 2015 Co-authored with Morris Manning, Q.C., the 5th edition of this Professor Peter Sankoff says the three text provides an updated, detailed and critical examination of charges faced by Duffy will be very difficult the criminal law of Canada, exploring both the governing for the Crown to substantiate. principles and providing comprehensive analysis of every offence in the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, The Lawyers Weekly: But whose as well as common law and statutory defences. Professor Sankoff also co-authored the 4th edition, released in 2009. privilege is it? AUGUST 10, 2015 THE CIVIL LITIGATION PROCESS: CASES AND MATERIALS Dean Paton is quoted in an opinion piece TH about solicitor-client privilege. 8 EDITION (EMOND MONTGOMERY, 2016) Barbara Billingsley, Co-editor Edmonton Journal: Opinion: The 8th edition of this leading casebook on civil procedure provides NIN infringement claims on nation-wide coverage of both fundamental principles and recent shaky ground developments in civil litigation processes in Canada’s common law provinces. It is co-edited by a team of accomplished civil process JULY 8, 2015 professors from across Canada, including Janet Walker (general editor), Professor Cameron Hutchison writes Jane Bailey, Barbara Billingsley, David A. Crerar, and Erik S. Knutsen. on the law and limitations of trademark infringement. BANKRUPTCY & INSOLVENCY LAW 630 CHED: Alberta NDP may allow 2ND EDITION (IRWIN LAW, 2015) health lab monopoly in Edmonton Rod Wood JULY 8, 2015 The second edition of Bankruptcy & Insolvency Law published by Professor Tamara Buckwold comments on Irwin Law examines the legal framework that governs bankruptcy the RFP process for medical lab services and insolvency law in Canada. It is organized in a way that privatization in the Edmonton area. illuminates the structure of insolvency law, its aims and objectives, and its foundational principles. This edition takes into account the The Lawyers Weekly: CSA recent case law on the extensive 2009 amendments to the federal insolvency statutes, and examines several new Supreme Court of Canada decisions. proposes to give target boards Additionally, new topics, such as the anti-deprivation principle in bankruptcy law and more time the use of arrangements by insolvent corporations, are introduced. MAY 27, 2015 Professor Gail Henderson comments that ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND JUDICIAL DEFERENCE extending the bid period to 120 days will help besieged companies better manage (BLOOMSBURY, 2016) hostile takeovers. Matthew Lewans In recent years, the question of whether judges should defer to administrative decisions has attracted considerable interest amongst public lawyers throughout the common law world. This book examines how the common law of judicial review has responded to the development of the administrative state in three different common law jurisdictions – the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada – over the past 100 years. This comparison demonstrates that the idea of judicial deference is a valuable feature of modern administrative law, because it gives lawyers and judges practical guidance on how to negotiate the constitutional tension between the democratic legitimacy of the administrative state and the judicial role in maintaining the rule of law.

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HONOURING TEACHING EXCELLENCE

On September 23, 2015 the Faculty celebrated teaching excellence with the presentation of the Hon. Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award to Professor Mitchell McInnes and the Pringle/ Royal Sessional Teaching Excellence Award to Karen Hewitt, Q.C. at a ceremony in CN Alumni Hall. Prior to the awards presentation, a memorial was held to honour Alex Pringle, Q.C., for whom the Pringle/Royal Sessional Teaching Excellence Award is named.

PROFESSOR MITCHELL MCINNES KAREN HEWITT, Q.C. Recipient of the 2015 Hon. Tevie H. Miller Teaching Recipient of the 2015 Pringle/Royal Sessional Excellence Award Teaching Excellence Award

The Hon. Tevie H. The Pringle/Royal Miller Teaching Sessional Teaching Excellence Excellence Award is Award, the bestowed annually Faculty of Law’s to recognize highest teaching excellence in award, is so teaching by named for The a sessional Honourable instructor at the Tevie H. Miller, Faculty of Law. Associate Chief Karen Hewitt, Q.C. Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench (1984-1993) and a is the 2015 recipient of the award. She teaches Advanced former Chancellor of the University of Alberta. Professor Criminal Trial Advocacy and Sentencing at the Faculty McInnes earned the award in 2008 and has been and is a proponent of experiential learning and ethical honoured again this year. Prior to joining the Faculty of practice. Ms. Hewitt was called to the Alberta Bar in Law in 2005, he taught at Western University in London, 1990 and practiced in the private sector until she joined Ontario, and at the University of Melbourne and Deakin the Alberta Crown in 1992. She has held designations University in Australia. Professor McInnes’ research of both Agent of the Attorney General of Alberta and focuses on unjust enrichment, restitution, trusts, torts, Agent of the Attorney General of Canada. Throughout the contracts, and remedies. He is the author of several course of her career, she has prosecuted a wide range books, including The Canadian Law of Unjust Enrichment of interesting and unusual criminal cases. In her current and Restitution (2014) and more than 100 articles, role at the Specialized Prosecutions Branch of Alberta comments, and reviews in leading journals. His work Justice, she prosecutes serious, complex, and high has been relied upon by a number of courts, including profile cases, while also providing advice and assistance the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of to police departments on investigational issues. the United Kingdom, the High Court of Australia, and the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Professor McInnes clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and served as a Legal Research Officer with the Alberta Court of Appeal.

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In Memoriam: ALEXANDER PRINGLE, Q.C. AUGUST 6, 1947 - JUNE 20, 2015

he Faculty of Law lost a much valued alumnus and friend in 2015 with the passing Tof Alex Pringle, Q.C., one of Canada’s most respected criminal defence lawyers. A distinguished sessional instructor at the Faculty for more than 30 years, Pringle passed away on June 20, 2015, after a lengthy battle with stomach cancer. He is deeply missed by many, notably his partner, Madam Justice Sheila Greckol, and their three children, Thomas, Anna, and Sarah. Pringle served the legal community in Edmonton and beyond for more than three decades, as a senior member of criminal law boutique Pringle Chivers Sparks Teskey, and as one of the Faculty of Law’s most respected and beloved teachers. He taught principally in criminal law, but also in Criminal Trial Procedure, Advanced Criminal Law, and Advocacy. The Faculty’s Sessional Teaching Excellence Award was renamed the Pringle/Royal Sessional Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 to honour his contributions and those of Peter Royal, Q.C., both of whom were previous winners of the award. A native Edmontonian, Pringle earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1968 and his law degree from the in 1971. He was called to the Alberta Bar in 1972, the Northwest Territories Bar and Yukon Bar in 1977, and finally the Saskatchewan Bar in 1980. Pringle appeared before all levels of “He knew that court, including the Supreme Court of Canada on many occasions. real mentorship Pringle’s loss is felt throughout the Edmonton legal community. “We lost a giant,” said Dino Bottos, a criminal defence lawyer with DePoe & Bottos. “Ask anyone who knew required teaching him or saw him in court, or listened to him in his class, and you would know there was more than just a universal high regard for him both as a person and as a lawyer. His virtues included a high ethical standard, integrity, honesty, empathy, humility, and pursuit of excellence.” the nuts and bolts Added Dane Bullerwell, a criminal defence lawyer with Pringle Chivers Sparks of the law, but also Teskey: “He knew that real mentorship required teaching more than just the nuts and bolts of the law, but also how to practice with integrity and compassion. Anyone lucky how to practice enough to observe him providing advice to a client came away awed by his respectful, with integrity straightforward, and down-to-earth style. He combined his deep knowledge of the law with a strong instinct for justice, and served as a role model for a generation of lawyers. and compassion.” He will be missed.” Donations in Pringle’s memory may be sent to the Edmonton Community Foundation, Alexander Pringle QC Trust. Proceeds will be directed to iHuman Youth Society, a project for homeless youth that Pringle supported for many years.

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CONFEDERATION AWARDS OF ALBERTA FACULTY ASSOCIATIONS

Distinguished Academic Awards Assistant Professor Ubaka Ogbogu – cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences – was honoured with the 2015 CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award at the ninth annual CAFA Distinguished Academic Awards banquet, held in Edmonton on September 17, 2015.

CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION – ALBERTA BRANCH AND LAW ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINERAL LAW SOCIETY OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION Distinguished Service Awards 2015 Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award Professor Mitchell McInnes, ’88, was Professor David Percy’s contributions to legal scholarship and recognized with the Distinguished Service teaching, and his service to the University of Alberta and the broader Award for Legal Scholarship by the CBA legal community, have been honoured with numerous accolades and Alberta and the Law Society of Alberta awards throughout his career, including the W.P.M. Kennedy Award at the Distinguished Service Awards for outstanding merit in Canadian law teaching, the Rutherford Award ceremony, which took place during the for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the Hon. Tevie H. Miller annual CBA Alberta Law Conference in Award for teaching at the Faculty of Law, and the 2013 University Calgary on January 29, 2016. Cup, the University of Alberta’s highest honour for academic and community service. Professor Percy’s most recent award is the 2015 Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award from the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation based in Colorado. This award – established in 1993 and named in honour of Clyde Martz, the eighth president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation – recognizes excellence in teaching natural resources law and considers the degree to which the professor fosters a broad understanding of the law, mentors students, and teaches with an innovative style.

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From Law Professor to Canada’s Highest Court Former associate dean Russell Brown ascends to the Supreme Court of Canada

he Honourable Russell S. TBrown, former associate dean at the Faculty of Law, was officially welcomed to the Supreme Court TOP of Canada in a ceremony in Ottawa on October 6, 2015. The Main Courtroom of the Supreme Court was filled with Justice Brown’s family, friends, and former Dean Paton and colleagues from the Faculty of Law, including Dean Paton; Peter25 Sankoff former dean and current Deputy Minister, Justice and Solicitor General Philip Bryden; Vice Dean Moin Yahya; Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Studies Nominated for Barbara Billingsley; Professor David Percy, Q.C.; Professor Steven Penney; Canadian Lawyer’s Associate Professor Eric Adams; and Associate Professor Eran Kaplinsky. Justice Brown, who was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court before Chief Top 25 Most Justice Beverley McLachlin and the judges of the Court in a private ceremony Influential 2015 on September 2, 2015, replaced Justice , who retired on August 31, 2015. For six years, Canadian Justice Brown was a member of the Faculty of Law between 2004 and 2013, Lawyer has compiled a list both as a professor and for the last two years as an associate dean. His main of Canada’s Top 25 Most areas of practice were , medical negligence, personal injury, Influential lawyers. The insurance law, and trusts and estates. While at the Faculty, Justice Brown earned magazine polled readers for the Hon. Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award in 2007, and the student- votes and selected the final awarded Ron Hopp Q.C. Most Involved Professor Award in 2006 and 2010. list of 25 based on the vote Justice Brown was well-liked and respected by both his colleagues and students. count and final word from the “He was always an outstanding teacher from the get-go,” said Vice Dean Moin Yahya. magazine’s editorial panel. “His students loved him, although it was understood that he was a tough professor.” We are proud that Dean Paul Paton (The World Stage Justice Brown left the Faculty of Law in February 2013 when he was appointed category) and Professor to the Court of Queen’s Bench in Alberta. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal Peter Sankoff (Criminal / of Alberta in March 2014. As a Court of Appeal judge in Edmonton, Justice Brown Human Rights Law category) also served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories and a were among the nominees. Judge of the Court of Appeal of Nunavut. Congratulations! Justice Brown is a graduate of the University of (BA), the University of Victoria (LLB) and the University of Toronto (LLM, JSD). He was admitted to the Bar of British Columbia in 1995 and to the Bar of Alberta in 2008. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he was an associate at DLA Piper LLP in Vancouver and Carfra Lawton LLP in Victoria. The Faculty of Law offers our sincere congratulations and best wishes to Justice Brown on his appointment and we thank him for his years of dedicated service to his students and the Alberta legal community.

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From Classroom to Courtroom

Long-time sessional instructor sworn in as judge n August 24, 2015, the Honourable Don R. Sommerfeldt O(LLB ’77), long-time sessional instructor at the Faculty of Law and former counsel with Dentons LLP, was sworn in as a judge of the Tax Court of Canada in a special sitting of the Court at a ceremony held at the Edmonton Law Courts.

Former Dean Philip Bryden Appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Solicitor General of Alberta

Celebration held in September 2015 for Mr. Bryden’s portrait unveiling at the Law Centre The ceremony was presided over by the Chief Justice aculty, staff, family, and friends joined former Dean of the Tax Court, the Honourable Eugene P. Rossiter, Philip Bryden for a gathering in CN Alumni Hall on five members of the Tax Court of Canada, Chief Justice F September 16, 2015 to celebrate his portrait unveiling Catherine Fraser and Justices of the Alberta Court of at the Law Centre. The event was also an opportunity Appeal, and Justices of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. to congratulate Mr. Bryden, who was appointed Deputy The courtroom was filled with Justice Sommerfeldt’s family Minister of Justice and Deputy Solicitor General of and friends, including sons Matt (B. Ed ’01) and David Alberta in July 2015. (JD ’15), and many colleagues from across the province. Representing the Faculty of Law were Dean Paton and “Dean Bryden’s appointment is a tribute both to his Associate Dean Sprysak. Also in attendance were former individual experience as a legal academic, administrator Vice Dean and Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench Wayne and public servant, and to the broader depth of knowledge Renke and Justice Russell Brown, at that time awaiting and experience within the University of Alberta Faculty his own swearing in to the Supreme Court of Canada. of Law,” said Dean Paul Paton. During the ceremony, Matt Sommerfeldt, now Legal Mr. Bryden was Dean of Law at the University of Alberta Counsel to the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton, from 2009-2014, and Dean of Law at the University formally introduced his father in a touching address to of from 2004-2009. Prior to his two the Justices and the court. He spoke highly of his father’s deanships, he was a member of the University of British love for education, the importance of fairness, and his Columbia Faculty of Law from 1985-2004, and practiced father’s dedication and loyalty to his family, profession, law part-time as Associate Counsel to Heenan Blaikie in colleagues, and community. Vancouver from 1993-2004. Throughout the course of his The Faculty of Law offers our sincere congratulations to career, Mr. Bryden served on the boards of a number of Justice Sommerfeldt on his appointment, and thanks him voluntary organizations, including the Canadian Institute for his many years of dedicated service to the Faculty. for the Administration of Justice, the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, the Council of Canadian Law Deans, the Alberta Law Reform Institute, and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.

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New Assistant Professor and Visiting Assistant Professor Appointments

he Faculty of Law will add three assistant professors published articles in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and and two visiting assistant professors to its roster the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, amongst others, Tof award-winning teachers and scholars; a new and has taught at Western University in London, Ontario, generation of depth, strength, and diversity. Dr. Anna Lund at York University in Toronto, and Dr. Cameron Jefferies have been appointed Assistant and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Before entering Professor effective July 1, 2016, and Malcolm Lavoie has the academy, Dr. Lund was an associate at Field LLP in been appointed Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2017. Edmonton and a law clerk at the Alberta Court of Queen’s In addition, Dr. Hadley Friedland and Dr. Irehobhude Bench in Calgary. She received the Viscount Bennett (Ireh) Iyioha are joining the Faculty as Visiting Assistant Scholarship from the Law Society of Alberta in 2010-11. Professors for a two-year term effective July 1, 2016. A member of the Bar of Alberta, she continues to practice “These appointments – identified as a priority on a pro bono basis through the Edmonton Community by students during the 2014/2015 market modifier Legal Centre and Pro Bono Law Alberta. Dr. Lund holds consultations – are the first in what’s expected to be a degrees from the University of Alberta (BA Hons., LLB remarkable period of growth and renewal at the Faculty with Distinction), the University of California (Berkeley, of Law, supported by new provincial government funding,” LLM) and the University of British Columbia (PhD). said Dean Paul Paton. “The addition of Anna, Cam, and DR. CAMERON JEFFERIES is Malcolm as tenure-track faculty members, and of Hadley currently the Borden Ladner and Ireh as Visiting Assistant Professors, builds upon the Gervais Fellow at the University tradition of academic excellence, innovative teaching, and of Alberta Faculty of Law. He a commitment to public service that has been a hallmark researches in the areas of of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Each of these international and domestic scholars has outstanding credentials and potential, and environmental law, oceans law, we look forward to their contributions as valued members natural resource law, and animal of our community.” law and has presented his work DR. ANNA LUND is currently nationally and internationally. Dr. Jefferies teaches in a Postdoctoral Fellow at the these areas, as well as professional responsibility, and University of Alberta Faculty of Law recently developed a new JD course in sustainability law. and holds a $100,000 Post-Doctoral Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he articled at Field LLP Fellowship Award from the Alberta in Edmonton and was called to the Bar of Alberta in 2010. Gambling Research Institute for a Thereafter he worked as a Research Associate at the project entitled “When Problem Health Law Institute. He has published articles in the Gamblers Go Bankrupt: Towards Fordham Journal of International Law, and the Journal of A Better Model of Rehabilitation.” Environmental Law and Practice, amongst others, and is She completed her doctorate at the University of British co-author (with Professor Lewis KIar, Q.C.) of the 6th Columbia Faculty of Law in 2015 on Canadian personal edition of Tort Law (Carswell) to be published in 2017. bankruptcy law, with the support of a $135,000 grant from Dr. Jefferies holds degrees from the University of Alberta the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of (BSc, LLB, both with Distinction) and the University of Canada. Her research focuses on debtor-creditor law and Virginia (LLM, SJD), where he studied as a Fulbright combines doctrinal legal research with empirical methods Scholar. His book Marine Mammal Conservation and to better understand how individuals interpret and apply the Law of the Sea will be published by Oxford University commercial law in their work and personal lives. She has Press later this year.

// 27 // ALUMNI MAGAZINE MALCOLM LAVOIE is currently a victimization and intimate violence, is used widely in law Visiting Assistant Professor at the schools across North America. Her PhD dissertation, University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Reclaiming the Language of Law: The Contemporary His research deals primarily with Articulation and Application of Cree Legal Principles in property law and private law theory. Canada, is nominated for a Governor General’s Gold He has published articles on Medal. She holds degrees from the University of Victoria constructive expropriation, (LLB) and the University of Alberta (LLM, PhD). remedies in contracts for the sale DR. IREHOBHUDE (IREH) IYIOHA of land, Aboriginal land rights, and is currently Assistant Adjunct other topics in publications such as the Oxford University Professor of Health Law, Ethics Commonwealth Law Journal, the UBC Law Review, the and Policy at the John Dossetor Ottawa Law Review, and the University of Toronto Faculty Health Ethics Centre in the Faculty of Law Review. Professor Lavoie was called to the Bar of of Medicine and Dentistry at the Alberta in 2013. From 2013 to 2014, he served as a law University of Alberta. She researches clerk to the Hon. Justice of the Supreme and writes in the field of health law Court of Canada. From 2014 to 2015, he studied at and policy. Dr. Iyioha is co-editor Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow of the book Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical and a Fulbright Scholar where his research was awarded Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law the 2015 Harvard Project on the Foundations of Private (Ashgate, 2015) and has published in various Canadian Law Writing Prize. Professor Lavoie holds degrees from and international journals. Her work has been cited in the University of British Columbia (BA Hons.), the London a Submission before the Joint Standing Committee on School of Economics (MSc with Distinction), McGill Migration (Inquiry into the Treatment of Disability) in University (BCL, LLB), and Harvard Law School (LLM). Australia and she has an entry in the Encyclopedia of DR. HADLEY FRIEDLAND has been Immigrant Health. Prior to joining the University of Research Director of the Indigenous Alberta in 2011 as a Visiting Academic, she was Assistant Law Research Unit at the University Professor and holder of an Ontario Ministry of Research of Victoria since 2012 and was and Innovation Postdoctoral Research Award at Western previously Research Coordinator for University and a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of the Indigenous Bar Association’s British Columbia. Outside the academy, Dr. Iyioha has “Accessing Justice and Reconciliation served in various policy capacities with both Alberta Project.” She articled with Justice Health Services and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Canada and was called to the Long Term Care, and served as a reviewer on the Alberta bar in 2010. She has worked extensively with Government of Alberta’s Results Based Budgeting Indigenous communities across Canada, and spoken and initiative. She is the recipient of numerous awards, published in the area of Indigenous legal traditions, as including the World Congress on Medical Law Award from well as Aboriginal law, legal theory, criminal justice, the World Association for Medical Law, and most recently, , child welfare, restorative justice, and the 2016 Canadian Immigrant of Distinction Award for therapeutic jurisprudence. Prior to law school she outstanding achievements in professional and service worked with children, youth, and families for a decade, capacities. Dr. Iyioha has been a Fellow of the Canadian and currently serves on the board of the Chimo Youth Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Health Retreat Centre in Edmonton and the Aseniwuche Law and Policy, a Liu Scholar at the UBC Liu Institute for Winewak Nation’s justice and reconciliation committee. Global Issues, and a member of the Clinical Ethics Dr. Friedland has won numerous awards for her graduate Committee of the University of Alberta and Stollery work, including a Vanier Scholarship (2011-2014) and Children’s Hospitals and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart the prestigious SSHRC Impact Talent Award (2013). Her Institute. She holds degrees from the University of Benin LLM thesis, The Wetiko Legal Principles, exploring how (LLB with Highest Honours), the University of Toronto Cree legal principles might apply today to issues of child (LLM), and the University of British Columbia (PhD).

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Law Students’ Association’s Student Legal Services Mental Health and Wellness Increases Access to Justice Committee Recognized tudent Legal Services (SLS) is a non-profit, student- Smanaged society that has been helping low-income he Law Students’ Association’s Mental Health and individuals in the Edmonton area access justice since TWellness Committee was created in the summer 1969. With two offices and nearly 300 Faculty of Law of 2014 to change the dialogue around mental health student volunteers, it is the largest student-run legal issues both for students in law school and for graduates clinic in Canada. entering the legal profession. Dean Paton nominated the committee for a 2015 True Award from the Lieutenant “With the support of the faculty, bar, and bench Governor’s Circle on Mental Health and Addiction. we’re able to do the great work that we do with the low-income community,” said 2L student Sarah Sager, The True Awards honour the efforts of Albertans SLS Executive Coordinator. to reduce stigma, encourage recovery, and SLS is divided into four different projects – Civil and strengthen programs and services in the Family Law, Criminal Law, the Legal Education and Reform Project, and Pro Bono Students of Canada – and area of mental health and addiction. students can choose to volunteer from their first year On September 24, 2015, Dean Paton and Mental Health of law school. Work is done through mentorship; each and Wellness Committee members Sasha Lallouz volunteer is assigned a leader that is usually a 3L student. and Asha Fritz attended the True Awards ceremony as This year, volunteers assisted with more than nominees. The committee’s efforts to improve access to and knowledge about mental health services and counter 769 files, meaning that 769 individuals – who stigma has been instrumental in our collective efforts as might otherwise have had to navigate the a Faculty to encourage improved mental health for those entering – or in – the legal profession. In November 2015, justice system on their own – were helped the committee was awarded with the Most Promising by law students, free of charge. New Student Group Award at the 2014-2015 University of Alberta Students’ Union Awards ceremony.

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MAGNA CARTA VISITS EDMONTON Faculty of Law students – and bloggers – Ms. Magna Carta organized reception to celebrate visit of historic document

n November 27, 2015, the Faculty The event – attended by more class time. Throughout the course, Oof Law hosted an once-in-a- than 200 guests – began with a the students “learned to connect a lifetime event at the Legislative vocal performance by a group of law historic document to modern day Assembly of Alberta Visitor Centre students known as the Magna Carta legislation using creative arguments to celebrate the 800th anniversary Minstrels, accompanied by Professor and innovative ideas,” including of Magna Carta and allow guests Bruce Ziff. The keynote speaker, backyard chickens in Edmonton the opportunity to view an original Dr. Carolyn Harris, author of Magna and its connection to Magna Carta’s copy of the Great Charter. The event Carta and Its Gifts to Canada, took the removal of “evil customs” restricting was organized by five law students crowd through 800 years of history in the use of forests. As part of the Law – collectively known under their only eight minutes, informing guests & Social Media course, the Ms. Magna blog “pen” name Ms. Magna Carta that Magna Carta was “the first Carta students blogged and tweeted – enrolled in a Law & Social Media example of a king of England being (@MsMagnaCarta) about all things course developed by Vice Dean Moin forced to accept limits on his power Magna Carta. Yahya. The Ms. Magna Carta students by his subjects.” In addition to financial support from worked in conjunction with Magna Following Dr. Harris’ presentation, the Faculty of Law for the Magna Carta Carta Canada, the group that spent Ms. Magna Carta and Law & Social event, thanks go to sponsors Miller five years organizing the Canadian Media class member Venessa Thomson LLP, the Legislative Assembly tour of the historic document. Korzan discussed the Law & Social of Alberta, and many others who Media course, one which had no supported the Ms. Magna Carta blog syllabus, textbook, or scheduled over the year.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 30 // LAW SHOW 2016 FERRIS BUELLAW’S DAY OFF The 20th anniversary of the Law Show – following in the footsteps of the inaugural 1996 show put on by Steven Blackman (’97) – took place at the Horowitz Performing Arts Theatre on February 5-6, 2016. This year’s show – “Ferris Buellaw’s Day Off” – was a take on the 1986 classic movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and starred students Alex Camenzind (3L), Shayla Hardy (1L), Conor Holash (2L), and Tyler McDonough (2L). In traditional Law Show fashion, the performance was filled with great music and jokes for both law and non-law students alike. Bronwhyn Simmons, the show’s executive producer, said that the best thing about preparing for the show is “spending time with other law students – the camaraderie developed is unparalleled.” The show also continues an important Faculty of Law tradition – supporting the community. In 2015, the Law Show began a new, three-year partnership with Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS), an Edmonton non-profit organization, which, since 1981, has worked with youth in crisis to provide emergency shelter and social support services. Proceeds from Law Show tickets and the silent auction go to support YESS’ important work in the Edmonton community. Thank you to the more than 200 law students involved in the production, and the show’s platinum sponsors: Allstar Industries, Bennett Jones LLP, Brownlee LLP, Field Law, and Miller Thomson LLP.

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Aboriginal Law Students’ Association Hosts 14th Annual Aboriginal Law Speaker Series

uring the first week of March, Dfaculty, staff, and students had the opportunity to learn from prominent members of the Aboriginal community and judiciary on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hosted by the Aboriginal Law Students’ Association (ALSA), the Aboriginal Law Speaker Series is an important annual event for the law school community that provides an opportunity to learn about Aboriginal and Indigenous issues through a legal lens. This year’s roster of distinguished speakers – four out of five of whom are University of Alberta Faculty of Law alumni – featured Justice Beverley Browne, lawyer Eleanore Sunchild, lawyer and public speaker Beverley Jacobs, Chief of the Commission and Tribunals of the Alberta Human Rights Commission Robert Philp, Q.C., and Justice Leonard S. Mandamin.

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ALSA Presents Aboriginal Justice Award to Beverley Jacobs

he ALSA speaker series in March also played host to a special award Tpresentation. At the conclusion of the March 2 lecture, ALSA executive member Jenna Broomfield presented Beverley Jacobs with the organization’s annual Aboriginal Justice Award, in recognition of her service to the community and outstanding contributions to Aboriginal justice initiatives. These many contributions include a term as president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (2004-2009), authorship of the Stolen Sisters Report with Amnesty International, support of those affected by the loss of loved ones to racialized and gendered violence, and advising the Government of Canada on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

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Faculty Celebrates UAlberta Pride Week 2016

n March 10, as part outed by a local newspaper, Oof UAlberta Pride Mr. Tomlinson fled to Week 2016, the Faculty of Canada, but soon returned Law was proud to host a to Jamaica on a weekly basis screening and discussion – risking his own personal of The Abominable safety – to continue with Crime, an award-winning his teaching and activism. documentary examining Mr. Tomlinson is currently a the effects of anti-gay laws Senior Policy Analyst for the and culture in Jamaica. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal event was co-sponsored Network in the Caribbean by the Institute for Sexual and provides sensitivity Minority Studies and training to government Services (iSMSS) and the workers, conducts visibility Pulitzer Center on Crisis campaigns, supports Reporting. The screening homeless LGBTI youth, and drew a capacity crowd to works with faith leaders the Law Centre, and after to develop more inclusive the film, the audience messages. He also participated in a Q&A participates in litigation, as LGBTI law students and channelled their collective moderated by Dean Paton both claimant and counsel, their allies), the Tortfeasors creativity, organizational, with one of the subjects of in order to overturn anti- hockey team, and the and performance skills into the documentary, human gay laws in the Caribbean. Golden Bearristers rugby a drag show on February 25. rights lawyer and LGBTI The film screening also team. The groups came Ticket sales from the show activist Maurice Tomlinson. played host to a display of together to raise money raised $1,500 for You Can Mr. Tomlinson, once a enthusiasm, teamwork, for You Can Play, an Play and representatives corporate lawyer, switched and generosity from three organization committed to from the groups were on his focus to human rights Faculty of Law student ensuring equality, respect, hand at the film screening law to advocate for the groups: OUTlaw (an and safety for all athletes, to present the cheque to LGBTI community in advocacy group founded without regard to sexual You Can Play representative Jamaica. After he was in 2008 to serve and aid orientation. The groups Dr. Kris Wells.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 34 // STUDENTS ON THE MOVE By: Michael Swanberg

Alberta Law Review Hosts Spring Reception Honouring Professor LEWIS KLAR, Q.C.

n March 1, the Alberta Law Review hosted its annual spring Oreception, including an address from Dean Paul Paton, at the University of Alberta Faculty Club. Faculty, students, practitioners, and judges gathered to celebrate another successful year of the Alberta Law Review, and to honour the evening’s keynote speaker, Prof. Lewis Klar, Q.C., who provided an interesting retrospective on the development of tort law over the past 40 years. During his time as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Klar was one of the Law Review’s strongest supporters. Instrumental in helping the Law Review secure Stevenson House – named in honour of The Honourable W.A. Stevenson, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada – as its headquarters in 1999, Prof. Klar has consistently promoted the Law Review to students as an invaluable experience. The Alberta Law Review will be publishing a Special Issue on Recent Developments in Tort Law in honour of Prof. Klar this summer. The issue will include contributions from some of Canada’s top tort law scholars, including Prof. Klar, and international contributions from eminent legal scholars at Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. The Alberta Law Review thanks Prof. Klar for his strong support over the course of his distinguished career. In addition to honouring Prof. Klar, the reception served as an opportunity to look ahead to the future of the Alberta Law Review. Starting in the fall, issues of the Alberta Law Review will be available for free online. This marks the transition from a printed journal to an online edition, which will help the Law Review better achieve its mandate to reach a wide audience for its scholarship. Many thanks to the reception sponsors: Miller Thomson LLP, the Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board, Bennett Jones LLP, and Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP. Thanks also go to the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Energy Law Foundation, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and the University of Calgary for their continued financial support.

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MOOT COURT PROGRAM 2015-2016

Mooting – whether at a local, regional, or national competition – is a unique part of the law school experience and a significant source of pride for any law school. Our 2015-2016 moot court program was a tremendous success – 80 students tried out this year, up from 35 the previous year – and included victories at the Sopinka Cup in Ottawa (Canada’s national trial advocacy competition), the Bennett Jones Cup in Health Law Advocacy in Calgary, and the Alberta Court of Appeal Moot here at home.

Why moot? Mooting helps students “The passion Jon and Fraser bring build confidence in their lawyering to mooting is an inspiration to our 1Ls skills: research, advocacy, writing, and I am delighted to see them enjoy communication, negotiation, and their well-earned success,” said Stella consensus building. The practice of Varvis, Director, Legal Research and oral and written advocacy – with the Writing Program, and Coordinator, help of coaching by teams of peers, Competitive Moot Program. faculty, and senior lawyers – is a tremendous opportunity for students to “perfect the practice of law” as they prepare and present opposing sides of a legal argument to a panel of judges. These simulated court proceedings also provide students with the opportunity to network with faculty and senior members of the bar and bench. Some moots involve client Jonathon Austin and Fraser consultation and non-litigation dispute Genuis’ victory at the Sopinka Cup in Ottawa on March 11 was a significant resolution; skills that are essential Another moot success this achievement for our mooting to a well-rounded legal education. year was our victory at the program and a source of tremendous Bennett Jones Cup in Health pride. 2016 was the first year that a Law Advocacy in Calgary, also University of Alberta Faculty of Law in March. Congratulations to 2L moot team made it to the finals of students Deirdre Fleming, Sarah the Sopinka Cup, so to win in our first Harvey, Conor Holash, and Tyler visit to the finals was very special. As McDonough for their win; the first an added bonus, after their victory, for UAlberta in the six-year history of Jon and Fraser attended a reception the competition. The moot problem at the Supreme Court of Canada with this year for this competition was a Justices Côté, Moldaver, and Brown.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 36 // particularly complex one involving an appeal and cross-appeal of an Other 2015-2016 Ontario Court of Appeal decision on the issue of whether a duty of care is Moot Competitions: owed to children for injuries caused BOWMAN TAXATION MOOT by a physician’s negligence prior to their conception. Conor Holash Patrick Smith & Kayla Thompson earned the top oralist prize for the (Best Factum Award) UAlberta team at this competition. CANADIAN CLIENT CLINTON J. FORD MOOT CONSULTATION (Our annual in-house COMPETITION competition for 3L students) 2nd place Marianne Dunn & Robert LaValley Brendan Downey & Paul Kolida (2 judges to 1 victory)

WILSON MOOT LASKIN MOOT (Bilingual competition; each We also had success at the Alberta (Constitutional and human rights issues) school must present in both Court of Appeal Moot, which we English and French) hosted on March 11-12 at the Law Adam Cembrowski (Top Oralist) Kaila Eadie, Jamie Fitzel, Adam Lowe, Centre. The “Alberta Challenge Cup”, & Jason Harley (3rd place oralist) Mark Moore as it is known, is an annual battle DAVIES CANADIAN versus the University of Calgary; a CORPORATE MATHEWS DINSDALE & three-round event of civil, criminal, and constitutional moots. The SECURITIES MOOT CLARK NATIONAL LABOUR UAlberta team won this competition 3rd place ARBITRATION COMPETITION Lerina Koornhof & Anny Wang with a 2-1 record. Congratulations Matthew Dolan, Alexandra Dunn, to Grayson Bateyko, Sarah Denholm, Daniel van den Berg, Ashton Menuz Mark Keohane, John Minkley, Joey Redman, and Randell Trombley. HAROLD G. FOX MOOT These are just three of the many (Intellectual property) THANK YOU moots our students participated in Jae Morris & James McTague to our 2015-2016 this year; a comprehensive list is (Honourable Mention for moot sponsors included below. Many thank yous Best Respondent Factum) are owed for making this year’s moot Support from law firms and program such a success. First, to KAWASKIMHON NATIONAL members of the legal community the students, who took on the extra ABORIGINAL MOOT is critical to the success of our moot teams. Thank you! work to compete for the honour of (Non-competitive) our law school; second, to the Andrea Bailer, Jenna Broomfield, BENNETT JONES – Bennett Jones Cup sponsors, whose commitment of Lauren Chalaturnyk, Melanie Webber in Health Law Advocacy both time and financial resources MOODYS GARTNER – Bowman helped our teams be the best they GALE CUP National Taxation Moot could be; third, to the coaches, for sharing their time and expertise; 4th place STIKEMAN ELLIOTT – Davies Canadian and fourth, to the judges and other (Problem to be mooted drawn from Corporate Securities Moot a recently decided SCC case) mentors, who volunteered their BRIAN BERESH, Q.C. and time to hear practice rounds, review Sam Alzaman & Matthew Summers LIBERTY LAW – Gale Cup Moot facta, and provide strategic advice. JESSUP INTERNATIONAL CHIVERS CARPENTER LAWYERS – We look forward to another Mathews Dinsdale & Clark National successful year in 2016-2017. LAW MOOT COURT Labour Arbitration Competition COMPETITION DOUG STOLLERY, Q.C. – Wilson Moot Danielle Chu, Rana Ghanem, Joshua Samac, Filippo Titi

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Students Earn Prestigious Clerkships

ach year, Faculty of Law students earn clerkships at both the trial and appeal Elevel. Congratulations to this year’s cohort of 2L and 3L students – see below for a partial list – who will begin their clerkships in 2016 and 2017. Clerkships are an alternative to the traditional and composite 12-month articling term that all law students undertake before they apply to gain admission to the Law Society of Alberta. A clerkship consists of 12 months in Ottawa and fulfills the articling requirements for the Law Society of Upper Canada in Ontario. Clerkships located in Alberta are for 10 months and then students complete another five months under the supervision of a lawyer at a firm, government body, or organization to complete their articles. During a clerkship, the student-at-law is assigned to a justice or judge who acts as the student’s principal throughout their term. A clerk’s duties include research and writing, attending court proceedings, filing and organizing evidence, and reviewing and analyzing materials submitted by the Crown and defence counsel. Clerks may also review, edit, or discuss draft judgments with justices and judges. Clerkships provide students-at-law with a tremendous opportunity to reinforce their understanding of court procedures, civil procedure rules, sentencing principles, statutory interpretation rules, and, where applicable, appellate review standards. These positions enable the students-at-law to further strengthen their legal research, writing, reasoning, and advocacy skills, while witnessing the judicial process first-hand.

Court of Appeal of Alberta, Court of Queen’s Bench of Provincial Court of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Edmonton Edmonton Brandyn Rodgerson (2L) Adam Cembrowski (2L) Sarah Sager (2L) Caitlyn Field (2L) Allison Purdon (2L) Caitlin McKall (3L) Emily Chick (3L) Lauren Chalaturnyk (2L) Provincial Court of Alberta, Nicholas Willis (3L) Allison Boutillier (3L) Calgary Fraser Genuis (3L) Court of Appeal of Alberta, George Wong (3L) Tania Shapka (3L) Calgary Michael Swanberg (3L) Federal Court of Canada Sunny (Jeevanjot) Mann (2L) Court of Queen’s Bench of Robley Goff (2L) Ashton Menuz (2L) Alberta, Calgary Elsbeth Cochrane (3L) Matthew Summers (2L) Matthew Schneider (2L)

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In Conversation With… TERRY ADIDO – PhD candidate and MasterChef Canada finalist – on his passion for the law and cuisine

For many, watching programs like MasterChef Canada make us believe that we too can become home chefs serving up delicious entrées for our family and friends. Terry Adido is that home chef; someone who inspires the purchase of fresh ingredients and the discovery of a secret love for cooking. At least that was the case for me. In February 2016, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mr. Adido for a Q&A about his involvement with MasterChef Canada Season 3 and his love for the law. Here’s what he had to say.

Gillian Reid is the Faculty of Law’s Events & Alumni Relations the “fourth wall” of show business and reality TV, Coordinator. She can be reached at [email protected]. which answered a number of questions I had. Finally, it validated the fact that I am a good home cook. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? My name is Terry Adido and I am a PhD candidate at Q: What do your family and friends think about your the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. I own a food decision to compete on MasterChef Canada? blog called www.gratednutmeg.com and am currently They are extremely excited to see me on TV doing what a finalist on the third season of MasterChef Canada. I love doing best, which is cooking. I think they are more excited about me being on the show than I am. Q: What was the first dish you ever prepared? It must have been pancakes. Growing up, we had pancakes Q: What made you go into the legal profession? for breakfast on Saturday mornings. I always loved mine I had always wanted to read law – even as a kid – because shaped like crepes and since no one would make them to my specifications, I had to start making my own. I I viewed it as a noble profession, one that equips you must have been 7 or 8 years old at the time. with the skills to reason fairly and bring about change in whatever society you live in. Q: Who taught you how to cook? Q: What do you enjoy most about the law? I learned to cook by watching my mother. She happens to be an adventurous cook and loved nothing more I enjoy legal reasoning and research and the ability to than to have us help out in the kitchen. She also had look beyond words and actions to motives. I also love bookshelves stocked with cookbooks which I would that the law is not abstract, but deals with social issues. read over and over again. Q: What are you currently researching? Q: What made you audition for MasterChef Canada? I am researching the regulation of transplant tourism by My friends and blog fans kept asking me to audition for both international and national legal systems. I intend a cooking or baking show. Since MasterChef Canada is a to build a legal model for the prohibition of the practice show for home cooks, I decided to give it a try and jokingly based on the use of extraterritorial criminal laws. applied for the third season. I got a call the next day. Q: What are your plans for after the show? Q: What’s the best part about being a participant on My ultimate plan is to own my own cake-making studio. MasterChef Canada? For now, I keep doing the things which bring me happiness It’s hard to choose just one thing. I got to meet a lot of – legal research and food blogging. Very few people have amazing home cooks and have remained very close the privilege of a career and still being able to pursue friends with a couple of them. I also got to see behind their passion. I’m glad I can do both.

// 39 // ALUMNI MAGAZINE VISITING SPEAKERS

KIM ARMSTRONG Deputy Minister for Status of Women with the Government of Alberta Igniting Leadership Passion from Within January 7, 2015

DR. JOHN ROBSON DEAN PATON in Magna Carta: Our Shared Conversation With… Legacy of Liberty BARBARA SCHEDLER October 6, 2015 FISCHER Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Switzerland in Canada March 9, 2016 DR. CAROLYN HARRIS University of Toronto Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada: Democracy, Law, and Human Rights JOHN PECMAN November 26, 2015 Commissioner of Competition Latest Initiatives by the MAJOR PATRICIA Competition Bureau BEH & LIEUTENANT- NADIA BRAULT COMMANDER June 23, 2015 Director of Compliance, MIKE MADDEN Competition Bureau Law on the Front Lines: of Canada Careers with the Office and of the Judge Advocate IAN NIELSEN-JONES General of the Former Deputy Canadian Forces Commissioner of October 15, 2015 Competition of Canada The Competition Bureau’s Approach to Competition DR. REMUS VALSAN Law Enforcement and Lecturer in , Corporate Compliance Edinburgh University, Scotland March 1, 2016 Gender Diversity and the Relational Theory of the Board of Directors June 9, 2015

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 40 // IN GRATITUDE

The Faculty of Law would like to thank our Sessional Instructors for their many contributions throughout the 2015-2016 academic year. This dedicated group of legal professionals provide our students with valuable expertise on a wide range of legal subjects, and offer wisdom, feedback, and encouragement, on top of the many hours they spend in the classroom and outside the classroom grading assignments. We are grateful for their continued commitment to the success of our students – the next generation of our legal community.

SESSIONAL INSTRUCTORS 2015-2016

BARBARA ACTON MICHAEL DOLSON DR. ANNA LUND PETER ROYAL, QC DAVID WEDGE Blakely & Dushenski Felesky Flynn LLP Faculty of Law Royal Teskey Parlee McLaws LLP BOB ALONEISSI MONA DUCKETT MICHELLE MACKAY IAN RUNKLE MARK WOLTERSDORF Beresh Aloneissi Dawson Duckett Shaigec Gordon Zwaenepoel Knisely Nagase Anderson LLP Dentons Canada LLP O’Neill Hurley & Garcia SARAT MAHARAJ NAOMI SCHMOLD TED YOO BRIAN BERESH, QC ERIN EACOTT Dentons Canada LLP Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Bennett Jones LLP Beresh Aloneissi Public Prosecution TIM MAVKO DAN SCOTT TERRI SUSAN ZURBRIGG O’Neill Hurley Service of Canada Reynolds Mirth Richards Seveny Scott Alberta Human Rights ALEX BERNARD KEVIN FEEHAN, QC & Farmer LLP Commission KAREN SCOTT Public Prosecution Dentons Canada LLP ROB MCDONALD Seveny Scott Service of Canada (PPSC) MARIE GORDON, QC Dentons Canada LLP ALEXANDRA SEAMAN NITIN BHATIA Gordon Zwaenepoel DONNA MOLZAN, QC Dawson Duckett Shourie Bhatia LLP DISTINGUISHED SANDRA HAWES Alberta Justice Shaigec & Garcia BONNIE BOKENFOHR Miller Thomson LLP PATRICK NUGENT ALEKSANDRA SIMIC SERVICE AWARDS Edmonton Police PATRICIA HEBERT, QC Nugent Law Office Alberta Federal Commission CHRISTINE PRATT Gordon Zwaenepoel Prosecution Agents EDMOND O’NEILL DINO BOTTOS KAREN HEWITT, QC Beresh Aloneissi KAREN SMITH Christine Pratt, ’92, DePoe & Bottos Alberta Justice, Special O’Neill Hurley Parlee McLaws LLP President of Alumni & JODY BRENNAN Prosecutions LYNN PARISH LAURA STEVENS Friends, sessional instructor, Government of Canada – MEGAN HOWERY Alberta Appeals Commission Alberta Courts and partner at Field Law in Status of Women Alberta Justice, Edmonton DOUG PETERSON JEREMY TAITINGER Edmonton, was recognized DANE BULLERWELL General Prosecutions Alberta School of Business Reynolds Mirth Richards by the CBA Alberta and the Pringle Chivers Sparks LORI JOHNSON & Farmer LLP Teskey CHRISTINE PRATT Law Society of Alberta with Cochard Johnson Field Law MAEGHAN TOEWS the Distinguished Service TROY CHALIFOUX BRIAN KASH HLI, Faculty of Law Indigenous and Northern NEIL REDDEKOPP Award in Pro Bono Legal Alberta Justice Affairs Canada Ackroyd Law IAN WACHOWICZ Service at the Distinguished SIDNEY KOBEWKA Dentons Canada LLP RYAN CLEMENTS RICK REESON, QC Service Awards ceremony Kobewka Stark Kahane Law Office Miller Thomson LLP MAREK WARSHAWSKI which took place during NANCY KORTBEEK Canadian Western Bank SANDRA CORBETT TOM ROTHWELL the CBA Alberta Law Reynolds Mirth Richards Field Law LLP Alberta Justice and KATHERINE WEAVER Conference on January 29. & Farmer LLP Solicitor General Appeals Commission for

Workers’ Compensation

// 41 // ALUMNI MAGAZINE REUNIONS By: Christine Pratt, Partner, Field Law LLP

Message From The President Alumni & Friends Association of the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

n behalf of Alumni & Friends, I wish to congratulate the Faculty on the Spring 2016 Oissue of Without Prejudice. The magazine, re-imagined in recent years by the Faculty, has long provided alumni with news out of the Faculty of Law, and an ongoing connection to our law school and each other. Our U of A degrees are a large part of what defines us, and it is important for all of us that the law school continue to provide excellence in legal education to upcoming generations. As Dean Paton guides the law school through these challenging economic times, Alumni & Friends wishes to provide as much support and assistance as possible. We welcome any of our members who have an interest or ideas to contribute to the development of a strong alumni community, so that we can effectively assist and engage each other, the law school, and current and future students. We hope to see you all at the Spring Reception in May 2016. Christine Pratt

REUNIONS 2015 Reunions allow for alumni to reconnect and reminisce with former classmates. The Faculty of Law Class of 1985 held their 30-year reunion in Edmonton on September 26, 2015 in a private room at Ampersand 27 restaurant.

The Faculty of Law Class of 1990 held their 25-year reunion in Calgary on May 23-24, 2015; a dinner on May 23, followed by an informal brunch at the home of Glenn Solomon on May 24. Many thanks to Sabri Shawa, Glenn Solomon, Carsten Jensen, Jamie Floyd, and Joan Bilsland for organizing the reunion! For assistance organizing a class reunion, please contact Gillian Reid at [email protected].

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 42 // ALUMNI WEEKEND September 24-27, 2015 Each year in September, you can feel the anticipation of Alumni Weekend start to build in the air at the University of Alberta. This year’s festivities took place from Thursday to Sunday, September 24-27, and saw more than 4,000 alumni take part. On Thursday, the Faculty of Law welcomed Francis Saville, ’62 BA, ’65 LLB and Alan Fielding, ’65 BA, ’69 LLB, recipients of the University of Alberta 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award and Honour Award to a special luncheon held in CN Alumni Hall at the Law Centre. On Friday, we joined in the Green and Gold Day festivities in the Quad, which saw Dean Paton and several other Deans roll up their sleeves for a BBQ in support of the U of A’s United Way campaign. The second annual sock fight also took place during the noon hour, with more than 2,015 pairs of socks donated to Boyle Street Community Services and the Salvation Army. On Saturday, the Faculty of Law held an open house, Dean Paton hosted lunch, and Alumni & Friends of the Faculty of Law held their annual AGM. In the evening, the Class of 1985 held their reunion at Ampersand 27 in a private portion of the restaurant. It was a busy weekend and we look forward to seeing familiar faces at the Faculty of Law during the 2016 celebrations. Alumni Weekend 2016: September 22 - 25

2016 QUEEN’S COUNSEL APPOINTMENTS (ALBERTA)

> Darryl Allen Aarbo > Grant Scott Dunlop > Lori Jean Johnson > David Brian Mercer > Garry Appelt > Christine Jane Felix > Peggy Mary Kobly > F. Murray Pritchard > Gail Patricia Black > Patricia Marie Hebert > Christopher John Lane > Darlene Scott > Philip Bryden > Karen Elizabeth Hewitt > Julie Lloyd > James Andrew > Judy Darleen Burke > Katharine Louise Hurlburt Wachowich

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A COMMITMENT TO THE Calling the law the Wachowich / Wachowicz family business is LAW AND COMMUNITY: like calling politics the Kennedy family business. It’s more than The Wachowich / Wachowicz an understatement. Many members of the Wachowich Family in Alberta / Wachowicz family have practiced law in Alberta since the 1950s. Readers will be most ith 30 years’ experience Edmonton. Seventy per cent of Rob’s familiar with the distinguished practicing law and more practice is criminal defence – “it is than 20 advocating for always an honour to assist those careers of brothers Edward Wconsumers as counsel for conflicted,” he said – with the balance the Consumers’ Coalition of Alberta, taken up by civil litigation, estates, (1929-2012, LLB ’54) and Allan often appearing in front of the Alberta and administrative tribunal work. (LLB ’58) Wachowich, who Utilities Commission to intervene Rob credits his mother Lucy – “she’s in utility rate-setting decisions, Jim my guardian angel” – and the late rose to become Chief Judge Wachowich, Q.C. (LLB ’85) – son of Harvey Bodner, Q.C. for his success, Edward – believes that the law is a of the Provincial Court of including getting into law school. profession that actively helps others. (“Harvey helped get our father [Edward] Alberta and Chief Justice of “Watching my father and uncle, I through law school,” he added.) saw the satisfaction helping people the Court of Queen’s Bench Jim and Rob’s commitment to can bring,” said Jim. “Now, when I community is shared by their cousins of Alberta, respectively. Here’s experience it, I get a strong sense of Jane Wachowich (LLB ’90) and connection to them, on top of the good David Wachowich, Q.C. (LLB ’83), the next chapter of the story. feeling I get helping someone else. children of Allan. Being able to represent a client like the Jane Wachowich practiced coalition has been a unique and positive corporate commercial law in experience. The area of consumer Edmonton in the 1990s at what was advocacy is a bit off the beaten then Lucas Bowker and White before path, but the challenges have been moving to Chicago, where she worked outweighed by the rewards of doing with youth in the inner city projects. something I think is very necessary.” Jane had four children of her own, Jim and his brother Robert and upon her return to Canada, Wachowich (LLB ’89) practice law settled in Calgary and returned to together at Wachowich & Co. in

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 44 // the law, practicing in-house corporate According to family history – possibly adjacent landowners in development and litigation management for four apocryphal – the postmaster in the disputes, landowners in expropriation mid-sized companies she co-owned, town near the Wachowich / Wachowicz claims, vendors and purchasers in while also focusing on philanthropic homestead northeast of Edmonton real estate litigation, and corporations activities. She divested of her business took it upon himself to change the and shareholders in oppression actions interests in 2011 and is now the full- names of some of the family members, and other shareholder disputes. time executive director of Calgary’s in order to distinguish them and make What drew him to the law? “My Cornerstone Youth Centre, a non- his job easier. parents told me that I had to be either profit “home” for vulnerable and a doctor or a lawyer,” he said. “And I at-risk youth. Jane also works with was afraid of needles.” the Red Cross and the Law Society of Alberta, doing pro bono non-profit In addition to his practice, Ian has and humanitarian work. taught as a sessional instructor at the Faculty of Law in civil trial advocacy “I’m lucky to have the opportunity and professional responsibility. He was to work in the non-profit sector,” she recently recognized by The Legal 500 said. “Our family has a real vehemence Canada in the area of Dispute Resolution for social injustice. Always drawn (2016). Ian’s service to the community to business, later to the business of includes serving as chair of Edmonton’s non-profit, creating opportunity for Subdivision and Development Appeal vulnerable kids – I get to apply all Board, teaching for both the Canadian that I learned in law and business at a JIM WACHOWICH, Q.C. Centre for Professional Legal Education grassroots level. The transition from and the Legal Education Society of law was the natural next step for me, Alberta, and coaching soccer. where I can help level the playing field a bit, one kid at time.” Success means different things to different people. What does it mean to David Wachowich, Q.C. is a partner the Wachowich / Wachowicz family? at Rose LLP in Calgary who has According to Jim, it’s “doing your represented insurers and others in best with what you have, and if what civil actions since the mid-1980s you have is enhanced by training or across Canada and the western education, your success should be that United States. His practice focuses much better. And if you can share that primarily on insurance litigation, DAVID WACHOWICH, Q.C. success with family, friends, clients, and more recently on corporate and the greater community, you get to litigation, general aviation, contracts, pay it back, which is its own reward.” and international disputes. In 2006, he spent six months assisting with Fortunately for many in Alberta, no the Clark Inspection investigating matter how you spell it, the Wachowich / electoral irregularities in the 2005 Wachowicz name means a commitment Calgary municipal elections. In 2012, to the law and the community. David received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service [For genealogy enthusiasts, members to Canada. His contributions to the of the Wachowich / Wachowicz community include a term as director family interviewed for this article are of the Alberta Ballet, and many years IAN WACHOWICZ descendants of Jan and Katherine coaching hockey, baseball, soccer, Wachowicz, who moved to Alberta in and basketball. But despite his own 1897 from a village near Lvov, in present distinguished career, David’s family day Ukraine. That two of Jan and name follows him. “Apparently, my great-grandfather Katherine’s sons – Philip and Peter – “In my law practice, I have met [Thomas Wachowicz] didn’t get any shared the same first initial prompted mail, so his last name remained Polish people who have commented a third spelling of the name, Wacowich, unchanged,” said Ian Wachowicz (LLB skeptically about how I spell and say held today by Master Rod Wacowich, Q.C. ’96), a partner at Dentons in Edmonton. my surname,” said David. “What kind Thomas Wachowicz was the uncle of of lawyer can’t even spell, or properly Ian’s practice focuses on civil Chief Justice Allan Wachowich and the pronounce, his own last name?” litigation, where he acts for late Chief Judge Edward Wachowich.] he joked. developers, municipalities, and

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Laura Hoyano (LLB ’82): I am called K.G. (Kim) Stephens (LLB ’85): 1960s to the Bar of England & Wales, and I am currently enrolled in an LLM am an academic Fellow of Middle program called the European Master Ted Carruthers (BA ’61) (LLB ’66): Temple, one of the ancient Inns of Law and Economics (EMLE). I retired after 19 years of service of Court. I practice from 18 Red I have completed terms at the to the Family and Youth Courts in Lion Court Chambers in London (a Erasmus University of Rotterdam Calgary. I served as Assistant Chief criminal and human rights set of (The Netherlands) and the University Judge and was the Chair of the barristers). In addition, I continue of Ghent (Belgium), and head next to Provincial Court committee in the my full-time academic teaching and the University of Haifa (Israel). development of the Calgary Courts research posts at the Faculty of Law, Centre. My wife Marly and I continue University of Oxford, and at Wadham Carol Winston (LLB ’88): I left to reside in Calgary. College, University of Oxford. Suncor Energy in February 2016 after working 11 ½ years in the Natural Gas, Renewable Energy 1970s and East Coast Canada Offshore departments for Suncor’s Exploration

Kenneth F. Cleall, Q.C., (LLB ’70): & Development Business Unit. I’m On January 1, 2015, I joined DLA currently contemplating a part-time Piper (Canada) LLP in Edmonton encore career as a writer and also after 42 years with my previous plan to travel, volunteer, and explore firm. My daughter Jennifer Cleall my creative side in semi-retirement. is a partner at DLA Piper and the main reason I moved. Robert Chambers (LLB ’88): I am now a Professor of Private I recently Ron Liteplo (LLB ’74): Shawna K. Vogel (BA ’81, LLB ’84): Law at King’s College London, retired as General Counsel to In March 2016 I was appointed one having moving here last year from EPCOR Utilities Inc. and now devote of five new global Vice Chairpersons University College London. my time to family, investment for the Dentons . As part of consulting, wine, and travel writing. these duties – the position is for a one-year term – I will be travelling every two months to regions where 1990s 1980s Dentons operates to attend Global Rhonda Johnson (LLB/MBA ’90): Board meetings and meet with I now split my time between Alberta I retired from Allan Hoyano (LLB ’81): clients. I visited Australia in January and BC, having joined Duncan Craig practice as a solicitor in a patent and and China in April. In December LLP in Edmonton. My practice trademarks firm in Bristol, England 2015 I was appointed the presiding continues to focus on estate planning and am now working freelance as member (Chair) of the Dentons and administration, particularly for a legal copy editor for Oxford Canada Region Board. clients with assets in BC and Alberta. University Press. When not working with clients on their estate planning needs, I can be found helping out with my family’s fully guided sea kayak tours business on Vancouver Island’s west coast.

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Stephen Leach (LLB ’91): After Roman Kotovych (LLB ‘06): I was leading the Canadian International 2000s appointed as a quasi-judicial member Trade Tribunal in Ottawa for nearly of the Refugee Protection Division Kyla Sandwith (LLB ’00): I earned five years, I resigned effective of the Immigration and Refugee a Master of Professional Studies May 1, 2016, to lead a governance Board of Canada. I will be conducting in Law Firm Management in 2014 project in Jakarta, Indonesia. As hearings and adjudicating refugee from George Washington University. Country Director, I will lead local claims made in Canada. I relocated to In 2015 I started a consulting and expatriate staff in working with Toronto where I am happily avoiding company, De Novo Inc., working the Indonesian national government tropical diseases for the time being. with lawyers to rethink how they on a number of initiatives funded by work and deliver legal services to Canada, the European Union, and achieve greater efficiency, value, the United States. Fellow alumni and profitability. In September travelling or living in the region are 2016, I will be teaching a course encouraged to contact me at my in Leadership for Lawyers at the personal e-mail: [email protected]. University of Calgary Faculty of Law.

Ritchie Po (LLB ’03): On June 2, 2016, I will once again chair the CBA’s Privacy Law Conference. I Nitin Bhatia (LLB ’07): Following my am now the co-chair of the CBA’s graduation I articled at a boutique Privacy Law subsection and litigation firm and continued to headed the legislative working practice there until 2010. In 2010 group to update the BC Freedom of I founded Shourie Bhatia LLP where Information & Protection of Privacy I currently primarily practice in Act. When not busy practicing Corporate & Commercial Law. I have cybersecurity and data privacy law, also been teaching at the University Olumide K. Obayemi (LLM ’99): I’m a Contributing Editor to Retail of Alberta Faculty of Law and the I work at the largest commercial Insider for Craig Patterson (LLB ‘01), Faculty of Business as a sessional law firm in Lagos, Nigeria and am and occasional style columnist. instructor. Outside of my career as also a Senior Lecturer with Faculty a lawyer and instructor, I’m involved of Law at Lagos State University. in commercial and residential My two most recent academic works construction across Alberta. My include articles for The Gravitas volunteer activities include work for Review of Business & Property Law the Valley Zoo Development Society (March and December 2015). and the Maanaw Seva Association.

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Faculty Celebrates Grand Re-Opening of McLennan Ross Hall

ounded more than 100 years ago, McLennan Ross LLP has a long tradition Fof supporting the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, including the establishment of various awards and endowments, the renovation of the Moot Courtroom, and the 1996 update of McLennan Ross Hall that resulted in its naming. Most recently, the firm contributed $100,000 to enable improvements to McLennan Ross Hall; improvements that included increasing the convertibility of the space, eliminating hazardous materials used in the original construction, and modernizing the architectural design.

On October 27, 2015 Dean Paton hosted a reception to celebrate the re-opening of the lecture hall. To mark the occasion, a ceremonial ribbon was cut by Dean Paton, McLennan Ross senior partner Rod McLennan, Q.C., former deans Philip Bryden, Q.C. and David Percy, Q.C., Law Students’ Association president Dharam Dhillon, and third-year law student Ryan Bencic. Dean Paton provided remarks and Mr. McLennan spoke on behalf of the firm. Following the ribbon cutting, Professor Peter Sankoff gave a public lecture on the Mike Duffy trial. The Faculty of Law would like to thank McLennan Ross for its continued generosity and commitment to the Faculty, the services it delivers, and to students.

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 48 // STAFF STORIES By: Gillian Reid CLIMBING TO NEW HEIGHTS Faculty of Law employee and competitive stair runner Tim Young on his unique passion

Q: Do the long hours of training Q: You wear rather unusual footwear. ever become boring? What can you tell us about this? I run 16,000 stairs a day, which is I wear Vibram FiveFingers “Signas” unusual even among top racers. shoes because I love the way they My brain never slows down though, feel. With proper toe separation and and when I run, my brain is running no support, it’s much easier to zero faster, thinking about a million things. in on proper technique. The shoes So really, I’m just running while allow all the small muscles to work mentally working on other things, in the lower legs, making physical so no, I don’t get bored. development more well-rounded and technically sound, leading to better im Young does not suffer from Q: What keeps you motivated? performance and less chance of injury. acrophobia. On November A lot of positive thinking and strategic T8, 2015, the Faculty of Law psychology, minimizing my perception Q: When did you start competing? employee competed in the 103-storey of the difficulties, focusing on the I’ve been running stairs at an elite Willis Tower Skyrise Chicago race, as easy aspects, and on what I’ll be level for more than 22 years, but I’m well as the Climb for Life stair race in getting out of it. a private time trialer. The Chicago the 58-storey 300 North LaSalle tower. double-header actually constituted my With more than 3,000 competitors, it Q: Isn’t running stairs hard on first two official races; the president was one of the largest tower racing your knees? of the US Tower Racing Association events in North America. Although described me as “definitely the It’s actually the opposite; climbing Tim has been running stairs at an elite darkest horse of the races.” They’ve stairs is a no-impact activity. If level for more than 22 years, this was been trying to get me to compete for anything hurts, it’s most often due his first time competing in two such a long time, but the schedule just to bad technique and/or a muscle high-profile races. He came in seventh hadn’t worked out. I’m focused more imbalance. Even descending the place at the Willis Tower race, but was on being my best than on competing, stairs – I’m one of the few who victorious at the Climb for Life race, especially considering race expenses. beating his nearest competitor by “trains on the down” – can be almost no impact with proper technique. four seconds. Congratulations Tim! Q: What’s next? INTERVIEW WITH TIM YOUNG Q: How do you know you’re not I’ve joined the International pushing too hard? Towerrunning Association, and I have Why did you start running stairs? one more race to do to be “ranked” Q: You get to know your body after a in the US system, so most likely it Originally it was to complement my great deal of time and training. Gentle will be a race in the US. However, figure skating and dancing; stair but daily persistence makes stair I’ve also been told I may be invited running was the best activity for climbing sustainable, and consistency to the world championships, so training purposes. Then I realized is key. With proper technique, your that race could be the next! that stairs let you do almost any limits – how fast you can metabolize sport or physical activity well. oxygen, for example – change.

// 49 // ALUMNI MAGAZINE The Odishaw Family Philosophy: Education as Opportunity

orn to Maude Lazar and Mike Odishaw in North “The education acquired through the Faculty of Law BBattleford, Saskatchewan, Jim Odishaw (BA ’66, has afforded my family opportunities that will continue LLB ’71) is the child of Assyrian immigrants whose to benefit us for generations to come,” says Jim. families fled a village in northern Iran after having been It was this sentiment that prompted the Odishaw persecuted for their Christian faith. His parents married Family Annuity at the Faculty of Law. On June 8, 2015 in 1933 and raised seven children on the family farm. a legacy gift of $100,000 was provided to the Faculty Although his father and mother obtained only a Grade 7 of Law in Esther Odishaw’s memory to establish and 8 education respectively, the importance of education three Odishaw Family Prizes for students in the was strongly impressed upon the Odishaw offspring. areas of dispute resolution, mediation advocacy, Of the family’s six children who lived to adulthood, and techniques in negotiation. three became lawyers. Why these three fields? Jim says that throughout the “Education affords many opportunities,” says Jim. course of his general law practice, it became clear that As a retired lawyer, having practiced law in Alberta for many of his clients did not understand the courtroom more than 40 years, Jim keeps busy with real estate and process as a method of resolving disputes. He recalls other business ventures, in addition to volunteer work, fondly his own first Judicial Dispute Resolution (JDR) travelling, and spending time with family. His ties to the before the late Honourable Tevie H. Miller, former University of Alberta are strong. Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench After leaving North Battleford to pursue his university of Alberta. Years later, JDR, mediation, and arbitration education, Jim married his high school sweetheart, processes have become common practice and many of Esther Wylie, a registered nurse. Jim and Esther had Jim’s clients who have been involved in these processes three daughters – Michelle Odishaw, BA; Carla Odishaw, have expressed how grateful they are to have presented LLB; Janine Odishaw, BEd, MEd, and PhD – all of whom their cases in this type of controlled environment, on obtained at least one of their degrees from the University a without prejudice basis. In view of this, the Odishaw of Alberta. But the U of A connection doesn’t end there. annuity is intended to assist and encourage students to The Odishaw daughters’ spouses are all U of A alumni, excel in these areas of the law, with the ultimate aim that including Ben Guido (LLB). Jim’s sister Margaret they become better equipped to serve their clients’ needs. Odishaw earned two degrees at the U of A (BA, LLB), as did her son Matthew Charlton (JD 2015). It is perhaps The Faculty of Law would like to thank the not surprising, then, that the University of Alberta – and Odishaw family for their generous gift and especially the Faculty of Law – has a special place in support of our students. the Odishaw family’s collective heart. For more information on how you can make a difference, please contact Della Paradis, Acting Assistant Dean, Advancement, at 780-492-5953 or [email protected].

University of Alberta Faculty of Law // 50 // GIFT REPORT $2,500 - $4,999 $100 - $249 Alberta Provincial Judges' 1340040 Alberta Ltd Association Brosseau & Associates For more than a century, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law has Canadian Petroleum Tax Society Deloitte & Touche LLP prepared students for dynamic careers in the legal profession. This Canadian Energy Law Foundation Havelock B Madill year, with the support of our donors and community partners, we Duncan Craig LLP Professional raised close to $2M for scholarships, prizes, and bursaries to help Lawyers Mediators James B Wilde Professional ensure that financial barriers to a legal education are lowered for MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP Corporation Barrister & Solicitor those most in need; for faculty research and student assistantships; Miltom Management John M Hope and to support important programming such as mooting. By The McLean McCuaig Foundation Professional Corporation working together, we are responding to the needs of our outstanding Workers' Compensation Kennedy Agrios LLP students as they learn not only the law, but important traditions of Board (Alberta) K F Bailey Professional Corp professionalism and service. Thank you for your continuing support. 7 individual donors Lawrence W Olesen Professional Corporation For more information on how you can make a difference, please McRae Media Design contact the Assistant Dean, Advancement, at 780-940-1874 or $1,000 - $2,499 Michael W Crozier [email protected]. Bennett Jones LLP Professional Corporation Canons of Construction Murray L Engelking Chomicki Baril Mah LLP Professional Corporation APRIL 1, 2015 – MARCH 31, 2016: Decore Holdings Inc Ogilvie LLP DLA Piper (Canada) R Frank Llewellyn Professional Corporation FACULTY OF LAW FUNDRAISING Ernst & Young LLP Field Law (Edmonton) Robert Hugh Davidson Professional ACHIEVEMENT TOTAL: Corporation O/A Davidson Gregory Kenneth C. Reeder Prof Corp 540 and Danyluik McCuaig Desrochers LLP TOTAL Shores Jardine LLP Ross-Lynn Charitable Foundation $1,978,786.15 NUMBER OF DONORS WJ Kenny Professional Corporation Society of Trust & Estate 119 individual donors Practitioners Canada 20 anonymous donors Torys LLP TOTAL NUMBER OF ALUMNI 42 individual donors 8 anonymous donors Of these alumni, 7.45% made donations to the U of A and $1 - $99 4.59% (333 individuals) donated to the Faculty of Law D B Denis Professional Corp 7,250 Dereck N. Gibson $500 - $999 Professional Corporation Alberta Crown Attorneys' Donald Cranston Professional Corp Association The Faculty Club of FUNDRAISING Alvin F Ganser Barrister & Solicitor The University Of Alberta Edmonton ACHIEVEMENT FOR $10,000 - $24,999 Angus Watt Enterprises Inc. Gordon Zwaenepoel Barristers 2015/2016 (Fiscal year) Bishop & McKenzie LLP Assiff Law Office and Solicitors Brownlee LLP Bereskin & Parr LLP I. W. Reynolds FACULTY OF LAW* S & E Services Limited Partnership CBA Financial Services Corporation Professional Corporation McMillan LLP Dentons Canada LLP Norman R. St Arnaud Professional Corporation Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP KVP Registration Services Ltd Norman W. Picard $1,000,000+ Melcor Developments Ltd Stikeman Elliott (Calgary) Professional Corporation 1 anonymous donor Reynolds Mirth Richards 1 individual donor Ronald G. Hopp Barrister & Solicitor & Farmer LLP 1 anonymous donor Weir Bowen LLP Student Articling Committee $100,000 + 81 individual donors Terrence M Warner Prof Corp Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 7 anonymous donors $5,000 - $9,999 WJ Kenny Professional Corporation Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP Alberta Lawyers' Assistance Society 29 individual donors 2 individual donors Beresh Aloneissi O'Neill Hurley 4 anonymous donors 1 anonymous donor O'Keeffe Millsap, Barristers Edmonton Bar Association $50,000 - $99,999 Edmonton Community Foundation $250 - $499 Emery Jamieson LLP Carol M Zukiwski Professional Corp Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP Estate of Jerrine Darling Coffman D L Pollock Professional Corp Canadian Blood Services Hajduk & Gibbs Barristers 48 individual donors George Edward Trott Alter Ego Trust & Solicitors 3 anonymous donors McLennan Ross LLP LexisNexis Trudeau Foundation Miller Thomson LLP 2 individual donors Terri & Roland Sturm Family Foundation The Faculty of Law strives for accuracy in recognizing its donors and $25,000 - $49,999 Witten LLP partners. Please contact the Assistant Dean, Advancement with any 3 individual donors discrepancies within this report: 780-940-1874 or [email protected]. Alumni & Friends of the Faculty of Law 1 anonymous donor *Includes new pledges, pledge payments, and gifts made in the fiscal 1 individual donor year (April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016).

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