Walter Owen Book Prize Winners

First place
  • $30,000
    Modern Criminal Evidence

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

    (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

First place
  • $15,000
    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.

    Search and Seizure

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

    Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions

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

    Canadian Competition Law and Policy

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

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

    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