Dalhousie Law Journal

Aims & Scope

The Dalhousie Law Journal supports student excellence in legal research and writing through faculty nominated prizes and awards. The Dalhousie Law Journal recognizes scholastic achievement and hopes to encourage students to do additional research and writing for publication. The JSD Tory Fund was established at The University of Toronto Law School in 1975 in memory of the late JSD Tory by Virginia Denton and James and John Tory, his daughter and sons, together with an annual gift of the law firm of Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington. The JSD Tory Research and Writing award was extended to several other law schools, including Dalhousie, in 1983. The purposes of the award are to reward legal research and writing excellence, encourage legal scholarship, and provide recipients with the financial support to do additional research and writing on an outstanding piece of written work. The award is $2,000, which is allocated at the discretion of the editorial board. It may be given as one singular prize or broken into separate smaller prizes. For a student (or students) to be granted the award, they must have demonstrated outstanding research and writing ability and the paper must be of publishable or potentially publishable quality. All full-time students registered for a degree from the law school are eligible to apply. Additionally, faculty members in paper courses recommend papers for consideration. The prize is normally awarded in May. The winning paper may be published in the Dalhousie Law Journal. It is not normally subject to peer review. The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS) Race and the Law Essay Prize was established by the NSBS Racial Equity Committee in 2008. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding scholarship by Schulich School of Law students, on topics pertaining specifically to issues of race and law. The goal of the Race and the Law Essay Prize is to foster and cultivate a discursive space, to promote and discuss race scholarship, and to enco

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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