The Lord Reading Society Human Rights Essay Contest
The Lord Reading Law Society is thrilled to announce the winners of our 75th Anniversary Human Rights Essay Contest! Thank you to all participants for their insightful and thought-provoking essays contributing to human rights discourse.
Student Winners
- First Place: Aliya Behar, Addressing the Wrongs in Ward: Towards a Harm Reduction Approach to Discriminatory Speech in Canada
- Second Place: Jenna Fairey, Overrepresentation of Indigenous Women in the Canadian Justice System: The Duality of Victimhood and Criminalization
Professional Winners
- First Place: Emmanuelle Bernheim, Le problème des droits en santé mentale : comment la loi et les droits empêchent de mettre fin à la coercition psychiatrique
- Second Place: Bradley Wiseman, Human dignity as a Foundation for Aboriginal Rights in Canada
- Third Place: Dwight Newman, Recognizing Freedom of Association Beyond Labour Contexts and Transcending Individualistic Readings of the Charter
We will be featuring the winning essays on our website as well as in a curated PDF to be distributed to various outlets focused on promoting and advancing human rights. You can read the first essay by clicking on the link above!
A special thank you all the jury members – Gregory Azancot (Azancot & Associates), Karen Eltis (uOttawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society), Mara Greenstone (MT>Align, a division of McCarthy Tetrault LLP), Neil Hazan (Borden Ladner Gervais), Erin Lesser (RBC), Manuel Shacter (McMillan LLP) and Ian Solloway (Spunt & Carin).
