Darcy MacPherson News Archive

September 10, 2025 — 
Co-Executive Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Bryan P. Schwartz and Professor Darcy MacPherson announce the release of the Manitoba Law Journal’s (MLJ) Volume 47.

June 18, 2025 — 
Oluwafisayo Stephen Ayita likes an academic challenge. He had only just moved to Winnipeg having obtained permanent resident status and was settling into the city with his family when he made a last-minute decision to submit his application for the Master of Laws program at the University of Manitoba on December 11, 2022, four days before the deadline. He was accepted into the program, starting in the fall of 2023, and graduated with his LLM degree at UM’s Spring Convocation on June 4, 2025.

May 29, 2025 — 
For the first time since 2012, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law fielded a team in the 2025 Wilson Moot which took place February 21 – 22 in Toronto, ON at the Federal Court facilities. The Wilson Moot, is named in honour of the late Honourable Bertha Wilson, the first female justice appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and pays tribute to her remarkable contributions to Canadian law.

May 27, 2025 — 
The 2025 Robson Hall Mini Moot took place on March 17, 2025, and was organized by co-chairs Jessica Blatta and Kassandra Taverner of the Manitoba Law Students’ Association’s Clinical Experience Committee. The Committee congratulated Linnea Kosokowsky (1L) and Meagan Gillis (1L), winners of the 2025 Robson Hall Mini Moot.

May 27, 2025 — 
The third annual Art Braid Business Law Case Competition took place on Friday, February 28, 2025, at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP (TDS)’s offices. This year’s case challenged students to review and analyze a services agreement on behalf of a client and present their recommendations. Congratulations to winners Jordan Wagner (3L), Eric Wagner (1L), and William Ho (1L), and to runners-up: Eric Martin (1L), Tyler Rubigny (1L), Thomas James-Davies (1L), and Alessandro Imbrogno (1L). The Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law generously funded the competition.

May 26, 2025 — 
The 2025 Kawaskimhon Indigenous Moot took place March 7 – 8, hosted by the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University on the traditional Anishinabe territory of the Fort William First Nation, home to Anemki Wajiw (Mount McKay, Thunder Bay, Ontario). The University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law sent two teams to compete, including Mary-Charlet Lathlin (3L), Janell Jackson (2L), Raven Morrisseau (2L), and Chloe Dreilich-Girard (2L). The team was coached by Marc Kruse, Director of Indigenous Legal Learning and Services, and Daniel Diamond, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law.

May 26, 2025 — 
The Gale Cup Moot’s Team Manitoba was in Toronto from February 27 - March 2. Kaitlyn Clarke and Andrew Bergen (2Ls) were a Respondent team while Sameer Harris and Derek Zaporzan (2Ls) were Appellants. Denise Sarmiento (3L) was the researcher, (plus clerk and timer at practices). The team was coached by Dayna Queau-Guzzi and Ashleigh Smith from the Appeals Unit at Manitoba Prosecutions.

August 26, 2024 — 
Dr. Bryan Schwartz and Professor Darcy MacPherson, the Manitoba Law Journal’s Co-Executive Editors-in-Chief, proudly announce this summer’s release of MLJ Volume 46, containing seven issues. The volume continues MLJ’s tradition of engaging with topics important to Manitoba and its almost 1.4 million residents, as well as matters affecting Canada more broadly.

August 1, 2024 — 
After more than a year of hard work and planning, the editorial team at the Manitoba Law Journal announces the inaugural release of its newest dimension: The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law (TRETL). The release of the MLJ’s Volume 46, Issue 7 follows the merging of the freshly-minted Desautels Review and the long-standing Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. TRETL will be the MLJ’s sixth dimension of publication, focussing on broad legal issues faced by business and trade globally as well as local issues respecting trade and enterprise in Manitoba.

July 9, 2024 — 
As the legal profession moves further into the bold new—virtual—world of web-based services, the MLJ’s Executive Editors, Dr. Bryan P. Schwartz and Professor Darcy L. MacPherson, are excited to announce a new special issue about Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). The project is part 2 of a trilogy of issues centered on how the Canadian legal system deals with crisis in the modern age. Volume 46, Issue 2, Online Dispute Resolution: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, is part oral history, part academic exploration of ODR.