Roderick A. Macdonald Graduate Student Essay Prize
2022
Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius, PhD student in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Eduardo’s paper was entitled, “Discursive Mismatch and Globalization by Stealth: The fight against Corruption in the Brazilian Legal Field”.
Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud, PhD student in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Liam’s paper entitled, "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"
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”
Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius, PhD student in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Eduardo’s paper was entitled, “Discursive Mismatch and Globalization by Stealth: The fight against Corruption in the Brazilian Legal Field”.
Honourable Mention: Liam Michaud, PhD student in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Liam’s paper entitled, "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"
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”