Submitted by sjpowis on Thu, 2010-03-11 17:28.
Register today for one of our
continuing legal education or professional development courses being offered in
Spring 2010. Check out the brochure and registration information at the following link.
Submitted by sjpowis on Mon, 2010-03-08 15:57.
Professor Arlene Kwasniak is publishing an article titled “
Instream Flow and
Athabasca Oil Sands Development: Contracting out/waiver of legal
water rights to protect instream flow – a legal analysis” in the
Alberta Law Review. The Article will be published in Volume 41,
Issue 1, Fall 2010. As well, Professor Kwasniak has substantially updated and
revised an article/entry by Gordon Kerr in the
Canadian
Encyclopedia (Historica-Dominion Institute) titled “
Wildlife
Conservation and Management” which is available online at the following link.
Submitted by sjpowis on Thu, 2010-03-04 16:19.
Professor Allan Ingelson presented a paper entitled "NAFTA, the Glamis Decision and Takings Compensation" at a conference in California, sponsored by the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Also in late February, as part of a multidisciplinary research project with risk management Professors Norma Nielsen and Anne Kleffner, Professor Ingelson co-presented a paper entitled "Long-Term Liability for Carbon Capture and Storage in Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs" at the Calgary Petroleum Club.
Submitted by sjpowis on Wed, 2010-02-24 14:56.
Congratulations to Kim Clarke, Director of the Bennett Jones Law Library, who has been named the new Associate Vice Provost of Research Services for Libraries and Cultural Resources. This is a 3-year administrative appointment, after which she will return to her previous position.
Submitted by sjpowis on Wed, 2010-02-24 11:18.
Former Attorney General of Saskatchewan and current Dean of the
University of Manitoba’s Law School,
Chris Axworthy, will become the
Founding Dean of Law at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) beginning May 1,
2010. The law school at TRU is being established in
partnership with the University of Calgary law school.