Graduate Law Fellowships

Saptarshi Chakraborty and Professor Phil Goldman.

Graduate Law Fellowships are available in certain areas to provide additional funding to graduate students in law.  Students named to these fellowships work with supervisors who are engaged in externally-funded research projects. Fellowships are available at present in the following areas:

Graduate Law Fellowship in Privacy Law Studies

The Faculty of Law welcomes applications from interested candidates who wish to study privacy law issues beginning in September 2009 at either the LL.M. or Ph.D. levels.  The successful applicant will be supervised by Professor Arthur Cockfield under the auspices of an inter-disciplinary research project called the New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting.  More information on this inter-disciplinary research project, supported by an MCRI SSHRC grant, can be found at: http://www.surveillanceproject.org/projects/the-new-transparency/about

The fellowship recipient will be expected to focus his or her graduate law research on issues surrounding privacy law.  Funding will include full tuition as well as assistance for conference travel, equipment and other research expenses.  In addition, the fellowship recipient may be hired to assist Professor Cockfield with his ongoing research surrounding privacy law and technology change in the post-9/11 environment.  For further information, please contact Professor Cockfield.

Graduate Law Fellowship in Indigenous Legal Studies

The Faculty of Law welcomes applications from interested LL.M. or Ph.D. candidates who wish to study indigenous legal issues beginning in September 2009.  Successful applicants will engage in a project under the supervision of Professor Mark Walters funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (S.S.H.R.C.) entitled "The Jurisprudence of Reconciliation: Towards an ‘Intersocietal' Conception of the Rule of Law in Canada."  The purpose of this project is to explore evolving approaches to the rule of law within both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal legal communities in Canada, with a view to considering the idea that the rule of law is, or may be, an "intersocietal" constitutional value.  An important part of this research is the study of indigenous legal traditions and indigenous approaches to the concept of legality, and how these traditions and approaches have evolved over time.  This aspect of the project will involve archival research as well as engagement and consultation with selected First Nations communities in Canada.  For further information, please contact Professor Mark Walters.