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Each year, the Faculty of Law awards a number of prizes and scholarships for continuing and graduating students. Of the available prizes, three are designated as prizes for essays written as part of a course or as a supervised term essay during the academic year.
Deadlines for Nominations
- Deadline to nominate students: Monday, May 11th, 2026 at 3 p.m.
You can nominate more than one student, but each person will require a separate form.
Essay Prizes Available
For Undergraduate Law Students:
1. J.S.D. Tory Writing Awards
These awards may be given to one student or shared by up to four students. Established by the firm Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington in 1989 in memory of its founder, J.S.D. Tory. These awards are intended to support student writing in the Faculty of Law and to permit students having submitted outstanding term essays to revise such essays for publication.
2.听Justice Jeffrey Edwards Prize
Established in 2018 by The Honorable Jeffrey Edwards and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law of 涩里番, to recognize and encourage outstanding undergraduate students in the Faculty of Law. Awarded by the Faculty of Law to an undergraduate student for the best overall grade or essay, factum, or memorandum submitted in an area of the law relating to product quality and liability, including but not limited to, consumer law, property law, torts, obligations, commercial, construction and environmental law.
3.听Thomas Alexander Rowat Scholarship
Founded by Mr. Donald McKenzie Rowart, N.P., in memory of his brother, Lieutenant Thomas Alexander Rowat, B.C.L., who was killed in action at Lens, France, on June 28, 1917. To be awarded for proficiency in French and in the Civil Law on conditions set from time to time by the Faculty. It is at present awarded to a student who has shown the most progress in the French language and proficiency in the Civil Law either by attaining a high aggregate standing in the group of courses consisting of Obligations and Property, or through the submission of a meritorious written contribution on a civil law subject in French, whether the contribution be a term essay or paper written as part of a course requirement.
4. Wainwright Essay Prize
Awarded for the best written contribution in Civil Law by an undergraduate law student, whether the contribution be an essay or other paper and whether written as an elective or as part of a course requirement, or voluntarily. It will only be awarded if a high standard is achieved. This prize is intended to support student writing in the Faculty and to encourage a student having written an outstanding essay to revise such essay for publication.
For Graduate Law Students:
1.聽George S & Anne K. Robinson Space Law Prize
Established in 2014 by friends and family of Dr. George S. Robinson III, a visionary space law scholar who obtained the world鈥檚 first doctoral degree in space law from 涩里番 in 1970, the prize is awarded to a graduating student at the Institute of Air and Space Law on the basis of his/her successful doctoral thesis exhibiting advanced research capabilities and constituting an original contribution to space jurisprudence.
2. H. Patrick Glenn Graduate Essay Prize.
It is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law in memory of Professor H. Patrick Glenn, who we miss. The prize is awarded on the recommendation of the Institute of Comparative Law to a graduate student in the first year of residence in the Institute.
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