New grants to support conference, independent research projects
Three Canadian research institutions have distributed a total of $100,000 in grants to six law professors to support a series of legal initiatives for 2022, including a conference on the law of obligations and independent research projects, the Western University Faculty of Law announced.
For leading an international research collaboration, professors Joanna Langille, Zoë Sinel and Jason Neyers have received $24,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They will use the funding for their upcoming conference entitled, “Obligations X: Private Law and the State,” which will take place from July 12-15 in Banff, Alberta.
The conference should bring together more than 150 legal scholars, judges and practitioners from all over the world to discuss recent issues in private law theory and doctrine. Topics will include the relationship between the law of obligations and the state and whether the law of obligations can be used to hold the state accountable.
Professors Andrew Botterell and Martin Petrin have received $18,791 and $22,446 from Western Research to provide meaningful insights for their respective research work.
Botterell’s research paper, “Diminished Responsibility, Voluntariness, and FASD,” examines whether individuals whose ability to engage in meaningful voluntary conduct is substantially compromised due to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). While Petrin’s research paper titled “Reconceptualizing the Corporation in Light of New Technologies” analyzes how artificial intelligence and other developing technologies influence public companies’ business models and structures.
Professor Colin Campbell and Robert Raizenne, a partner at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, have received $49,050 from the Canadian Tax Foundation for their literary work exploring the origins of income taxation in Canada.
The funding will be used to complete the subsequent two volumes, which, according to Campbell, will focus on the 1948 Income Tax Act, the Carter Commission report and the tax reform process that led to the current Income Tax Act. While the first volume, which discusses the 1917 Income War Tax Act, is scheduled for publication next month.
