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Manitoba’s Wilson Moot Team left to right: Coach Madison Pearlman [JD/18] (Law Society of Manitoba), Avery Alexiuk (2L), Tess Poulton (2L), Maia Bacchus (3L), Kirsten Nynych (3L), Coach Charles Murray (Manitoba Justice, Constitutional Law section).

Faculty of Law

Moot Report 2025: The Wilson Moot

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.

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Pictured from left to right: Michael Badejo (Fillmore Riley), William Ho (1L), Meagan Gillis (1L), Linnea Kosokowsky (1L), Eric Wagner (1L), Nick Noonan (Fillmore Riley), and Professor Darcy MacPherson.

Faculty of Law

Moot Report 2025: Robson Hall Mini Moot

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.

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Three smiling law students wearing formal dress suits each hold a cup shaped trophy with handles.

Faculty of Law

Moot Report 2025: Third Annual Art Braid Business Law Case Competition

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.

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The 2025 Kawaskimhon at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON. Tam Manitoba included Janell Jackson (front, middle in blue), Mary Charlet-Lathlin (back, 3rd from right), Chloe Dreilich-Girard and Raven Morrisseau (front, 2nd and 1st from right).

Faculty of Law

Moot Report 2025: Kawaskimhon Indigenous Moot

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.

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Photo of Gale Cup Moot Team and Coaches left to right Gale Cup Moot Team (left to right): Denise Sarmiento, Kaitlyn Clarke, Andrew Bergen, Derek Zaporzan, Sameer Harris, and Coaches Ashleigh Smith and Dayna Queau-Guzzi (both Manitoba Justice). Photo source: Sameer Harris.

Faculty of Law

Moot Report 2025: Gale Cup

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.

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A composite image comprised of five different covers from five different issues of the Manitoba Law Journal Volume 46

Faculty of Law

Manitoba Law Journal celebrates release of Volume 46

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.

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The cover of The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law is an Arctic Tern.

Faculty of Law

Introducing The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law

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.

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Cover image of the Manitoba Law Journal Volume 46, Issue 3, created by Lily Deardorff.

Faculty of Law

Manitoba Law Journal Takes Close Look at ODR

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.

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Judges and their former clerks from the past 20 years of the Faculty of Law’s Manitoba Court of Appeal clerkship program gathered for a reunion on May 10, 2024.Photo by Mike Latschislaw.

Faculty of Law

Celebrating 20 years of the Manitoba Court of Appeal clerkship program

June 10, 2024 — 
Twenty years ago, a young professor at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law approached the Dean with an idea: to ask the Manitoba Court of Appeal to take on third year law students as clerks to gain hands-on experience in seeing how the Province’s top court operates. As the 20th fall term of the program approaches, the Faculty and the Court realized the impact of the program’s long-lasting legacy and summoned alumni of the program from far and wide to celebrate at a luncheon held on May 10th, 2024.

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A series of versions of Canadian Flags illustrating the cover of the Manitoba Law Journal Volume 46 Issue 1, designed by Lily Deardorff.

Faculty of Law

Manitoba Law Journal publishes special issue on Canada’s Emergencies Act

August 23, 2023 — 
The Executive Editors of the Manitoba Law Journal, Dr. Bryan P. Schwartz and Dr. Darcy L. MacPherson are pleased to announce the August release of a special issue on Canada’s Emergencies Act: Beyond the Rouleau Report (Volume 46, Issue 1).

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