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TENURES AND PROMOTIONS
Dr. Gerald Heckman
Effective July
1, 2012, Dr.
Gerald Heckman
received
tenure and
was promoted to Associate
Professor. Dr. Heckman’s recent
scholarly work focuses on the
delay in administrative decisionmaking
as it relates to Labour
Administrative Tribunals. He
also continues to research the
topic of refugee law as it relates
to the passing of Bill-C31. His
work has recently appeared
in the Canadian Journal of
Administrative Law and Practice,
The Advocates’ Quarterly, and
The Manitoba Law Journal.
In addition to teaching
Constitutional Law and
Administrative Law, Dr.
Heckman has been responsible
for helping to advance the
confirmation of the Department
of Justice funding for the
French Language Program.
He is developing a course
on language rights open to
second and third year students,
which will be delivered in both
English and French. In addition,
Professor Heckman has devoted
time in the last several years to
coaching and mentoring the
Robson Hall Laskin Moot Team.
Dr. Evaristus Oshionebo
Effective July 1,
2011, Dr. Evaristus
Oshionebo
received tenure
and was promoted
to Associate Professor. Dr.
Oshionebo’s recent scholarly work
focuses on the topic of trademark
law in Canada. He is working
on a paper on the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) Guidelines
for Multinational Enterprises
as Mechanisms for Sustainable
Development of Natural
Resources, which he will present
in October at Lewis & Clark Law
School in Portland, Oregon,
at their symposium entitled
“Balancing Investor Protections,
the Environment, and Human
Rights.” His research in this area
will be published in the spring
2013 edition of the Lewis & Clark
Law Review. Recent articles and
scholarly works appear in Natural
Resource Investment and Africa’s
Development (edited by Francis
N. Botchway), International Law,
Conventions and Justice (edited
by David A. Frankel), and in The
Queen’s Law Journal.
Dr. Oshionebo specializes in
trademarks and patents, the
law of contracts, corporations,
regulation of transnational
corporations, corporate
governance, corporate
responsibility, natural resources
law and regulation, international
investment law, international
trade/business transactions, and
intellectual property law.
Dr. Jennifer L. Schulz
Effective
July 1, 2011,
Dr. Jennifer
L. Schulz
received
tenure and was promoted
to Associate Professor. Dr.
Schulz’s new course, Law and
Popular Culture, introduced
in 2011, received rave reviews
from students. She also
teaches Topics in Dispute
Resolution and Torts and
Compensation Systems.
Dr. Schulz is currently
researching the depiction of
mediators in popular culture
media and her work in this
area has appeared recently in
the Journal of Arbitration and
Mediation and in the 2012 book,
Law and Justice on the Small
Screen (edited by Peter Robson
& Jessica Silbey).
In 2013, Dr. Schulz will be
conducting her mediation
research in England, dividing her
time between the University of
London (in their Centre for Law
& the Humanities), where she
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