Article  Prize Winners (English and French)

English Article Prize Winners                                                              ​French Article Prize Winners

2025
Kanika Samuels-Wortley, The ‘Unusual’ Suspect—Race, Class, and Crime: A Critical Discourse Case Study of Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Event, (2024) 39(2) CJLS/RCDS 180-203.

Honourable Mention: Saaz Taher, Amélie Barras, and Jennifer Selby, Quebecois Laïcité and Its Canadian Multicultural Other in the Debates Surrounding Law 21, (2024) 39(2) CJLS/RCDS 204-224.

2024
Emma Feltes, Jocelyn Stacey, and the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, Crisis, Colonialism and Constitutional Habits: Indigenous Jurisdiction in Times of Emergency, (2023) 38(1) CJLS/RCDS 1-22.

Honourable Mention: Sarah Riley Case, To Protest for Black Life during the Pandemic: Resistance and Freedom in a Settler State, (2023) 38(3) CJLS/RCDS 316-334.
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2023
Alex McClelland and Chris Bruckert, Ethics and Confidentiality: Reflections and Lessons Learned Post-Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta, (2022) 37(2) CJLS/RCDS 187-208. 

Honourable Mention: Mary Anne Vallianatos, Marginal Citizens: Interracial Intimacies and the Incarceration of Japanese Canadians, 1942–1949, (2022) 37(1) CJLS/RCDS 49-67.

2022
Martin French, Dani Tardif, Sylvia Kairouz, and Annie-Claude Savard, A Governmentality of Online Gambling: Quebec’s Contested Internet Gambling Website Blocking Provisions, (2021) 36(3) CJLS/RCDS 483-504.
 
2021
Samuel Singer, Trans Rights Are Not Just Human Rights: Legal Strategies for Trans Justice, (2020) 35(2) CJLS/RCDS 293-315.

Honourable Mention: Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Luigi Russi, Finding Direction at the Edge of Law and Life: Islamic Fiqh, Correspondence, and UAE Takāful Insurance Regulation, (2020) 35(3) CJLS/RCDS 477-497.

2020
Philip Boyle and Tia Dafnos, Infrastructures of Pacification: Vital Points, Critical Infrastructure, and Police Power in Canada, (2019) 34(1) CJLS/RCDS 79-98. 

Honourable Mention: Christa Scholtz and Maryna Polataiko, Transgressing the Division of Powers: The Case of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, (2019) 34(3) CJLS/RCDS 393-415.
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2019
Anna C. Pratt and Jessica Templeman, Jurisdiction, Sovereignties and Akwesasne: Shiprider and the Re-Crafting of Canada-US Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement, (2018) 33(3) CJLS/RCDS 335-357.

Honourable Mention: Andrea Sterling and Emily van der Meulen, 'We Are Not Criminals': Sex Work Clients and the Constitution of Risk Knowledge, (2018) 33(3) CJLS/RCDS 291-308.
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2018
Jennifer Raso, Displacement as Regulation: New Regulatory Technologies and Front-Line Decision-Making in Ontario Works, (2017) 32(1) CJLS/RCDS 75-95.

Honourable Mention: Lisa Kerr, Sentencing Ashley Smith: How Prison Conditions Relate to the Aims of Punishment, (2017) 32(2) CJLS/ACDS 187-207.

2017
Marianne Quirouette, Tyler Frederick, Jean Hughes, Jeff Karabanow, and Sean Kidd, 'Conflict with the Law': Regulation & Homeless Youth Trajectories Toward Stability, (2016) 31(3) CJLS/RCDS 383-404.

Honourable Mention: Barry D. Adam, Jason Globerman, Richard Elliott, Patrice Corriveau, Ken English, and Sean Rourke, HIV Positive People’s Perspectives on Canadian Criminal Law and Non-Disclosure, (2016) 31(1) CJLS/RCDS 1-23.

2016
G. Blaine Baker, Testamentary Archeology in Late-Victorian Ontario: William Martin's Little, Posthumous Legal System, (2015) 30(3) CJLS/RCDS 345-363.

Honourable Mention: Anita Lam and Lily Cho, Under the Lucky Moose: Belatedness and Citizen's Arrest in Canada, (2015) 30(1) CJLS/RCDS 147-162.

2015
Eva Mackey, Unsettling Expectations: (Un)Certainty, Settler States of Feeling, Law, and Decolonization, (2014) 29(2) CJLS/RCDS 235-252.

Honourable Mention: Lori Chambers and Jen Roth, Prejudice Unveiled: The Niqab in Court, (2014) 29(3) CJLS/RCDS 381-395.

2014
Shiri Pasternak, Sue Collis, and Tia Dafnos, Criminalization at Tyendinaga: Securing Canada’s Colonial Property Regime through Specific Land Claims, (2013) 28(1) CJLS/RCDS 65-81.

Honourable Mention: Matthew Tomm, Public Reason and the Disempowerment of Aboriginal People in Canada, (2013) 28(3) CJLS/RCDS 293-314.

2013
Sarah Marsden, The New Precariousness: Temporary Migrants and the Law in Canada, (2012) 27(2) CJLS/RCDS 209-229.

Honourable Mention: Sarah Hamill, Making the Law Work: Alberta’s Liquor Act and the Control of Medicinal Liquor from 1916 to 1924, (2012) 27(2) CJLS/RCDS 249-265.
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2011
​Lori Chambers, Women’s Labour, Relationship Breakdown and Ownership of the Family Farm, (2010) 25(1) CJLS/RCDS 75-95.

2024
Joao Velloso, La gouvernance plurinormative des manifestants : reconfigurations pénales, exceptionnalité et dégradation des droits pendant le G20 à Toronto, (2023) 37 CJLS/RCDS 365-386.

​2021
Rachel Cox, Du harcèlement sexuel sans conséquence pour la victime? Analyse discursive de la jurisprudence du Tribunal administratif du travail du Québec, (2019) 34 CJLS/RCDS 497-519.

Mentions honorables : Étienne Roy Grégoire, Gouvernementalité extractive et autodétermination au Canada. Écosystèmes normatifs et charge critique de l’inter-normativité, (2020) 35(3) CJLS/RCDS 455-475
Maude Choko, L’ambivalence de la solidarité des artistes interprètes face à l’Union des artistes, (2020) 35(3) CJLS/RCDS 521-539.

2019
Brieg Capitaine, Sortir de la violence : La Commission de vérité et de réconciliation du Canada sur les pensionnats indiens, (2017) 32(3) CJLS/RCDS 349-69.

Mentions honorable : Marie-Neige Laperrière, Perspective féministe sur l'article 1974.1 du Code Civil du Québec: Une protection efficace dans la vie des femmes locataires victimes de violences?, (2018) 33(1) CJLS/RCDS 41-59.

2017
Mélanie Méthot,  Le marriage, c’est l’affaire de l’Église : pouvoir d’État et bigamie, (2016) 31(3) CJLS/RCDS 429-449.

2015
Ronald Niezen and Marie-Pierre Gadoua, Témoignage et histoire dans la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation du Canada, (2014) 29(1) CJLS/RCDS 21-42.

2013
Richard Dubé, La théorie de dissuasion remise en question par la rationalité du risque, (2012) 27(1) CJLS/RCDS 1-29.

2011
Sébastien Grammond, L’appartenance aux communatés inuit du Nunavik: un cas de réception de l’ordre juridique inuit?, (2008) 23(1) CJLS/RCDS 93-119.

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