Law and Legal Studies Archives

April 4, 2024

Advancing Holistic Healthcare: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine for All

Everyone has a right to a healthy standard of living and access to quality healthcare services – as outlined in Article 25 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. But in 2021, an estimated 4.5... More

August 29, 2023

SSHRC Partnership Grant Funds Carleton University Research on Prison Transparency

Prisons are among the least transparent public institutions in the world. This is particularly true in Canada, where only a handful of people have a legislative right to get inside to do research. This concerns... More

August 28, 2023

Wrongful Convictions in Canada: Carleton Researcher Dedicates Life to Advocacy

The strength of our criminal justice system depends on its ability to convict the guilty and to clear the innocent. Despite this, wrongful conviction cases are a regular occurrence – with nearly 4,000 known cases... More

June 15, 2021

National Indigenous History Month: Aliqa Illauq on a Changing Campus

Being Indigenous on a university campus can feel foreign. A lot of instructors and fellow students don’t understand you or the place you come from, or the things you’ve faced in life: racism, discrimination, powerlessness,... More

May 18, 2021

Six Carleton Students Win EDI Research Awards

Five undergraduates and one graduate student have won the inaugural Summer 2021 Carleton University Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Research Awards. Their EDI-related research projects will be conducted through August in collaboration with faculty... More

March 8, 2021

Carleton Alumna Charlene Theodore Leads Systemic Change as Ontario Bar Association President

Growing up in Brampton, Ont., Charlene Theodore was an avid reader with endless curiosity about the world. Her family always kept her bookshelves stocked and encouraged her to develop a deeper understanding about history and... More

February 25, 2021

Celebrating Black History: Carleton Student Taylor Bogle Wants to Head to Law School and Tackle...

Celebrating Black History: Carleton Student Taylor Bogle Wants to Head to Law School and Tackle Criminal Justice System Issues

For as long as she can remember, Taylor Bogle has wanted to become a lawyer. At her core is the desire to help others. She has felt it since she was very young, but it... More

November 11, 2020

Fall Graduation 2020: Celebrating a Bachelor Degree After Learning Difficulties Diagnosed

Carleton’s Fall Graduation 2020, a university-wide online celebration, launched on Saturday, Nov. 14. Watch the celebration at the Carleton Grads 2020 website now! Even though Maarukh Abbas is now in her first year of the... More

June 26, 2020

Grad Stories 2020: Changing the World: Graduating International Studies Student Sets Off to Law School

Since high school, Noah Hollis has wanted to help improve the world. That desire drove the Halifax native to the Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) program at Carleton University, where he specialized in... More

June 11, 2018

Spring Convocation 2018: Mother and Daughter Team Pick up Master’s Degrees in Legal Studies

In 2000, Suzanne Gahagan left the graduate program in Law and Legal Studies to focus on her young family. Eighteen years later, she found herself sitting in a classroom next to her daughter: both pursuing the... More