Professor Mark Walters has been awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Award for Academic Excellence

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Queen's Law is delighted to announce that Professor Mark Walters was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Prize for Academic Excellence in May, 2006. The prize honours exceptional contribution to research and law teaching by a Canadian law teacher in mid-career, based on quality of teaching and research in relation to law reform or other legal matters. Professors Don Stuart and David Mullan are the previous winners of the award from Queen's Law.

Mark, who graduated from Queen's Law in 1989, completed a D. Phil. at Oxford University in 1995 after clerking at the Ontario Court of Appeal. After being called to the Bar and practising aboriginal law at Lerners in Toronto, he returned to Oxford where he taught at Merton College and New College from 1996-1999. In 1999, he returned to Queen's as a Queen's National Scholar. He teaches Public Law, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, and Jurisprudence.

In 2001, Mark was awarded CALT's prize for a scholarly paper by a junior academic, and he was awarded two significant SSHRC grants in 2002 to pursue his work in aboriginal law. In 2004-2005 he was the Herbert Smith Visitor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in many leading Canadian and British law journals. His areas of interest are constitutional law, legal history, and legal theory. One theme that Mark considers in his work is the status of Aboriginal customary laws and government in colonial Canada. He also researches and writes about general theoretical problems in constitutional law, in particular the evolution of jurisprudential and constitutional theory between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.

We are proud of Mark's accomplishments, and congratulate him upon the receipt of this award