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By Alvin Yau, 1L

The Faculty of Law’s Prof. Stephen Waddams, LLB 1967, is the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s 2015 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law in honour of his outstanding contribution to the law or legal scholarship in Canada.

On set: Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, left, with Faculty of Law Professor Anthony Niblett.

UPDATED Jan. 6, 2014: Prof. Niblett won $19,601 on Christmas Day and finished in second place on Boxing Day, with a $2,000 win. Questions that stumped him? "Too many to list, I'm afraid," he said.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

“I’ll take really cool academics for $500.”

From left: ADRIAN BATTISTON, Co-Chair, Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada, ANTON THUN, Co-Managing Director, MFIVE Sports Management, ALLAIN ROY, President and CEO, CMG Sports, CLIFFORD HART, Partner, Miller Thomson LLP, DAVID GOLDSTEIN, Associate, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, G. JOSEPH FALCONERI, Partner, Falconeri Munro Tucci LLP, CHRIS TRAVASCIO, Co-Chair, Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada

The "Boilerplate 2.0" conference, organized by the Faculty of Law's Centre for Innovation Law and Policy on April 1, 2013, has been featured in an article in The Lawyers Weekly ("Boilerplate language does not render people legally bulletproof," April 19, 2013).

The article quotes guest speaker and author, Margaret Radin, who was a Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Law this year, as well as Profs. Peter Benson and Catherine Valcke, who also spoke at the conference.