Roderick A. Macdonald Graduate Student Essay Prize
2024
Olaoluwa Oni (PhD student, Osgoode Hall Law School), “The Transit Visa: International Law, Language, And More, More, More Borders”
2023
Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), "Prosecuting Overdose: The Use of Manslaughter Charges and Enhanced Penalties Against People Who Use, Share, and Sell Drugs"
Honourable Mention: Josh Lamers (PhD student, York University), "Reading Black Death into Ontario’s Coronial Context: Black Child Welfare Survivors and Family Policing as Death-Making"
2022
Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius (PhD student, University of Toronto), “Discursive Mismatch and Globalization by Stealth: The fight against Corruption in the Brazilian Legal Field”
Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), “Therapeutic surveillance in emerging Canadian drug policy”
2019
Daniel del Gobbo, “Negotiating Campus Sexual Violence"
2018
Isabelle Lefroy, "Interpreting Totems: Cultural Appropriation on the Pacific Northwest Coast"
2017
Eliza Bateman, "“The Unrighteous Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God: Ex-Gay Christian Communities, Reparative Therapy and Religious Law”
Honourable mention: David Sandomierski, “Theory and Practice, Together at Last: A Heretical, Empirical Account of Canadian Legal Education”
2016 (joint winners)
Évelyne Jean-Bouchard, "Pour une approche féministe du pluralisme juridique: le jeu des lois révisité"
Daniel Huizenga, "Articulations of Aboriginal Title, Indigenous Rights, and Living Customary Law in South Africa"
Honourable mention: Odelia R. Bay, "Battling the Warrior-Litigator: An Exploration of Chronic Illness and Employment Discrimination Paradigms"
2015
Rebecca Bromwich, “Re-Reading the Ashley Smith Case: Necropolitical Exclusion and Multiple Agencies”
Honourable mention: Yael Machtinger, “Socio-Legal Gendered Remedies to Get Refusal: Top Down, Bottom Up”
Honourable mention: Cindy Gagnon, “L’instauration du Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers (PTAS): Les pratiques canadiennes remises en question sous l’angle de la ‘vulnérabilisation’ des travailleurs étrangers”Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), “Therapeutic surveillance in emerging Canadian drug policy”
Olaoluwa Oni (PhD student, Osgoode Hall Law School), “The Transit Visa: International Law, Language, And More, More, More Borders”
2023
Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), "Prosecuting Overdose: The Use of Manslaughter Charges and Enhanced Penalties Against People Who Use, Share, and Sell Drugs"
Honourable Mention: Josh Lamers (PhD student, York University), "Reading Black Death into Ontario’s Coronial Context: Black Child Welfare Survivors and Family Policing as Death-Making"
2022
Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius (PhD student, University of Toronto), “Discursive Mismatch and Globalization by Stealth: The fight against Corruption in the Brazilian Legal Field”
Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), “Therapeutic surveillance in emerging Canadian drug policy”
2019
Daniel del Gobbo, “Negotiating Campus Sexual Violence"
2018
Isabelle Lefroy, "Interpreting Totems: Cultural Appropriation on the Pacific Northwest Coast"
2017
Eliza Bateman, "“The Unrighteous Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God: Ex-Gay Christian Communities, Reparative Therapy and Religious Law”
Honourable mention: David Sandomierski, “Theory and Practice, Together at Last: A Heretical, Empirical Account of Canadian Legal Education”
2016 (joint winners)
Évelyne Jean-Bouchard, "Pour une approche féministe du pluralisme juridique: le jeu des lois révisité"
Daniel Huizenga, "Articulations of Aboriginal Title, Indigenous Rights, and Living Customary Law in South Africa"
Honourable mention: Odelia R. Bay, "Battling the Warrior-Litigator: An Exploration of Chronic Illness and Employment Discrimination Paradigms"
2015
Rebecca Bromwich, “Re-Reading the Ashley Smith Case: Necropolitical Exclusion and Multiple Agencies”
Honourable mention: Yael Machtinger, “Socio-Legal Gendered Remedies to Get Refusal: Top Down, Bottom Up”
Honourable mention: Cindy Gagnon, “L’instauration du Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers (PTAS): Les pratiques canadiennes remises en question sous l’angle de la ‘vulnérabilisation’ des travailleurs étrangers”Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud (PhD student, York University), “Therapeutic surveillance in emerging Canadian drug policy”
