Student scholarship

A number of our JD students publish scholarly articles in academic journals during their studies or shortly after they graduate, based on research they conducted as part of their studies at the Faculty of Law. 

Listed below are some of these publications by JD students and recent graduates. Online versions are linked to in the title (subscription may be required). To see SJD student publications, see the SJD Profiles page.

JD students and recent graduates

2026

Anna Nuechterlein (JD 2026)

• Nuechterlein A., Rotenberg A., LeDue J., Pavlidis P., Illes J. “Open science in play and in tension with patent protections” (2023) Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

2025

Daniel B. Jolic (JD 2025)

• “Bridging the Gap: An Overview of the Construction Law Framework for Building First Nations Infrastructure and the Pathway to Improving It” (2024) J Can C Construction Law 89.
• Winner of the J. Stephen Tatrallyay Memorial Award in 2024

Joshua Schwartz (JD 2025)

• Review: Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel, by Michael J Broyde and Shlomo C Pill, at https://readingreligion.org/9781644690703/setting-the-table/ (pub: November, 2023)

• The Torah of Music: Reflections on a Tradition of Singing and Song, co-author with Joey Weisenberg
• Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2017

2024

Benjamin Zolf (JD 2024)

• Zolf B., “Rethinking Winnipeg Condo as Negligent Performance of a Service: a Rights-Based Account” (2022) 80:1 UT Fac L Rev 97.

Caitlin Salvino (JD 2024)

• Salvino C., “Scoring Campus Sexual Violence Policies Across Canada: A Comparative Policy and Criminal Approach” (2024) UBCLR [forthcoming].
• Salvino C., “Notwithstanding Minority Rights: Re-Thinking Canada’s Notwithstanding Clause”, in The Notwithstanding Clause and the Charter: Rights, Reforms and Controversies, ed Peter Biro (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University, 2024) [forthcoming].
• Salvino C., “R v Sharma’s Clarification of the Section 15 Framework and its Creation of Unique Barriers for Disability-Based Equality Claims” (2024) 32:4 Constitutional Forum [forthcoming].
• Salvino C., “The Section 33 Democratic Accountability Concept: Proposing a Two-Pronged Approach for Judicial Review” (2024) UBCLR [forthcoming].
• Milne C., Salvino C., “Analyzing the Treatment of Competing Charter Claims at Courts of First Instance: Judicial Restraint & Section 15” (2024) Supreme Court Law Review [forthcoming].
• Salvino C., “A Tool of the ‘Last Resort’: A Comprehensive Account of the Notwithstanding Clause Political Use from 1982-2021” (2022) 16:1 Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law.
• Salvino C., Spencer C., Filipe A., Lach L., “Mapping of Financial Support Programs for Children with Neurodisabilities Across Canada: Barriers and Discrepancies within a Patchwork System” (2022) 33:3 Journal of Disability Policy Studies.

David Côté (JD/MPP 2024)

• Côté D., “Ten Years Later and Limited Evidence of Progress: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of R v Ipeelee on the Sentencing of Indigenous Offenders Convicted of Manslaughter” (2023) 81:2 UT Fac L Rev 162.
• Côté D., “The Lost Art of the Plea Inquiry: Learning from the Past to Prevent Wrongful Convictions in the Future” (2023) 60:4 Alta L Rev 1017.
• Côté D., “The Conflation of the Justification Framework for Infringement of Aboriginal Rights with the Oakes Test in Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia” (2023) 14:2 Western J Leg Studies 1.

Dongwoo Kim (JD 2024)

• Kim D., “Artificial Intelligence Governance through Communicative Action: A Habermasian Perspective” (2024) 81:2 UT Fac L Rev [forthcoming].

Madeline F. Eskandari (JD 2024)

• Anderson M.J., Eskandari M.F., "From Peace Talks to Pandemics: The Continuum of Feminist Peace Activism", (2023) 3:2 Global Studies Quarterly

2023

Kyra McAlister (JD 2023)

• McAlister K., “Using Tariffs to Target Carbon Emissions: Analyzing the Legal and Economic Justifications for a Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism in Canada” (2022) 80:2 UT Fac L Rev 225.

Nik Khakhar (JD 2023) 

• Khakhar N. 'Reviewing Our Peers': Evaluating the Legitimacy of the Canadian Jury Verdict in Criminal Trials". (2022) 80:1 UTFLR 42. — This article received the JSD Tory Writing Award for Best Submission at the 2021 Canadian Law Student Conference.
  
• Khakhar N. "'Unlocking Pandora’s Box?' Resolving the Clash of Infrastructure Amidst the Risks of Jury Secrecy" (2023) 81:2 UTFLR.

Zachary Rosen (JD 2023)

• Rosen Z., “The Special Organization Exemption, Narrow and Broad” (2023) 81:1 UT Fac L Rev 90.

2022

Branden Cave (JD 2022)

• Cave B., “Escaping the Shadow of Partnership: A New Framework for Distinguishing Contractual Joint Ventures from Joint Venture Partnerships” (2022) 80:1 UT Fac L Rev 9.

Flint Patterson (JD 2022)

• Patterson F., “To Affirm Difference or To Deny Distinction?: The Competing Canons of Equality Law” 15:1 UWO J Leg Stud (2023) [forthcoming].
• Patterson F., “Feuding with Fauci: Towards a Tort of Reckless Dissemination of Medical Misinformation” (2022) 80:2 UT Fac L Rev 264.

Hannah Lank (JD 2022)

• Lank H., “You're (Still) My Person: Reigniting the Discussion on Recognizing and Regulating Adult Interdependent Relationships and Non-Conjugal Families in Canada” (2022) 80:2 UT Fac L Rev 197.

2021

Amanda Cutinha (JD 2021)

• Cutinha A., “Racial Discrimination Class Actions in Ontario: The Denial of Access to Justice Against Private Defendants” (2022) 80:2 UT Fac L Rev 171.

Paul Hildebrandt (JD 2021)

• Hildebrandt P., “Reconsidering the Income Tax Treatment of Investigation Fees” (2021) 79:2 UT Fac L Rev 207.

Robert Nanni (JD 2021) – Winner of the Canadian Bar Association's 2020 English Langlois Prize

• Nanni, R. "What's in a Name? Understanding 'Piercing the Corporate Veil' in Canada after Yaiguaje v Chevron Corp". CBA (2020).

2020

Adil Abdulla (JD 2020)

• Abdulla A., "The Circumstances of Change: Understanding the Bedford/Carter Exceptions to Vertical Stare Decisis", 78 UTFLR 1 (2020)
• Abdulla A. “Correcting Corrections: Resolving Confusion Over the Public Correction Requirement in the Ontario Securities Act”. 62:3 Can Bus LJ 310 (2019)

D’Arcy P. White (JD 2020)

• White D.P., “Business in the Middle Kingdom: An Evaluation of CFPOA Risk” (2020) 78:2 UT Fac L Rev 137.

Ryan Nicholas Howes (JD 2020)

• Howes R.N., “A Right to Choose: A Critical Review and Defence of the Minimum Performance Principle” (2019) 77:2 UT Fac L Rev 164.

Sara Tatelman (JD 2020)

• Tatelman S., "The Floor of “Frugal Comfort”: Eliminating Payment in Kind Deductions from Minimum Wage", winner of the CBA’s 2020 Law Student Essay Contest.

Spence Colburn (JD 2020)

• Colburn C., “Presumed Compliant: Charter Review of Statutory Grants of Discretion & the Presumption of Constitutionality” (2021) 79:1 UT Fac L Rev 1.

Tom Collins (JD 2020)

• Collins, T., "Common Intentions: The Standard of Review for Standard Form Wills" 39 Est. Tr. & Pensions J. 138 (2020).

2019

Mark Luimes (JD 2019)

• Luimes M., “Fitness to Plead Guilty: The Limited Cognitive Capacity Test and Mentally Disordered Accused” (2019) 77:1 UT Fac L Rev 27.

SJ Calum Agnew (JD 2019)

• Agnew S.J.C., “Rumours of Corruption: Referrals from the World Bank Sanctions System to National Law Enforcement Authorities” (2020) 78:1 UT Fac L Rev 23.

Sujung Lee (JD 2019)

• Lee S., “Re-Evaluating Moral Culpability in the Wake of Gladue” (2020) 78:2 UT Fac L Rev 109.

2018

Chantelle Van Wiltenburg (JD 2018)

• Van Wiltenburg C., "“The Center Cannot Hold”: Nation and Narration in American Indian Law." American Indian Law Review 47.1 (2023): 127. https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1767&context=ailr

Ellie Marshall (JD 2018)

• Marshall  E., “Legitimate Invasions: Lessons from the History of Canadian Consumer Reporting Legislation”. 16 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 277 (2018).

Étienne Cloutier (JD 2018)

• Cloutier É., "A Tale of Two Metaphors: A Narrative Take on the Canadian Constitution." McGill LJ 64 (2018): 447.

Kerry Sun (JD 2018)

• Sun K., “International Comity and the Construction of the Charter’s Limits: Hape Revisited” (2019) 45 Queen’s LJ 115
• Sun K., “Corrective Justice and the Unlawful Means Tort: Is There a Right to Trade?” (2019) 28 Dal J Leg Stud 167
• Sun K., “The Notion of a Proportionate Balance: A Book Review” (2019) 77:1 UT Fac L Rev 44.

Samuel Mosonyi (JD 2018)

• Mosonyi S., "Sentencing Guidelines for Canada: A Re-Evaluation". (2017) 22 Can Crim L Rev 275. 
• Mosonyi S. and Baker, D., "Bylaw Battles: Explaining Municipal-Provincial and Municipal-Federal Win-Rates." (2016) Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vo. 25, Issue 2, p. 11-22.

2017

Peter Roy Cotton-O’Brien (JD 2017)

• Cotton-O’Brien, P.R., “A Case for Uniformly Abolishing the Rule Against Perpetuities in Canadian Trust Law” (2017) 36 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal 230-249.

Veenu Goswami (JD 2017)

• Goswami V., "Algorithms, Expression and the Charter: A Way Forward For Canadian Courts", (2017) 7:1 online: UWO J Leg Stud 2.

2016

Andrew Mihalik (JD 2016)

• Anand, A. and Mihalik, A., "Coordination and Monitoring in Changes of Control: The Controversial Role of “Wolf Packs” in Capital Markets." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 54.2 (2017): 377-396.

2015

Drew Beesley (JD 2015)

• Beesley, D., "Back to Basics: Sentencing Objectives at the International Criminal Court." Impunity Watch L.J. 6 (2016): 6.