Walter Owen Book Prize Winners

First place
  • Pascal Fréchette, Université de Sherbrooke
    $15,000

    La restitution des prestations [in French only]

Second place
  • Yan Campagnolo, University of Ottawa

    Le secret ministériel : théorie et pratique (Ministerial Secrecy: Theory and Practice) [in French only]

View the media release to learn more about the 2020 winner and finalist

First place
  • Co-recipients Nader Hasan, privately practising barrister; Mabel Lai, Ontario Crown counsel; David Schermbrucker, federal Crown counsel; and Randy Schwartz, Director, Ontario Crown Law Office—Criminal.
    $15,000

    Search and Seizure

Second place
  • Professor Carissima Mathen of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
    $10,000

    Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions

Third place
  • John S. Tyhurst, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
    $5,000

    Canadian Competition Law and Policy

View the media release to learn more about the 2021 winner and finalist

First place
  • Modern Criminal Evidence
    $30,000

    (Emond Montgomery Publications Limited)
    Matthew Gourlay, Barrister; Brock Jones, Ontario Court of Justice; Jill Makepeace, Barrister; Glen Crisp, Barrister; Renee Pomerance, Ontario Court of Appeal

Second place
  • Termination and Recission of Agreements for the Purchase and Sale of Land
    $15,000

    (LexisNexis, Canada)
    Michael Pratt, Professor, Queen’s University Faculty of Law

Finalists
  • A History Of Law In Canada, Volume Two

    (The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
    Professors Jim Phillips, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Philip Girard, Osgoode Hall Law School; R. Blake Brown, Saint Mary’s University

View the media release to learn more about the 2023 winner and finalist

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