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”