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Prizes & Scholarships

Prizes

Hilda Janzen Memorial Award in Feminist Legal Studies

UBC Law is very pleased to announce a new donor-funded award for UBC Law students. The Hilda Janzen Memorial Award in Feminist Legal Studies will be granted annually to a male or female student in good academic standing who has demonstrated leadership in feminist issues and faces financial or systemic barriers to accessing or continuing a legal education.

Donor Sonya Wall was inspired to establish the award by the commitment shown by her aunt, the late Hilda Janzen, to the advancement of women in professional fields, and by the costs and other barriers students face in pursuing a legal education.

This award will be the largest available for an individual UBC Law J.D. student. At $18,000 annually, the award will cover the current costs of tuition and books for the recipient, as well as offset living expenses for the year. Susan Boyd, Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies, and Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies says that "this amazing new award recognizes two important facts: first, that there is an ongoing need for lawyering inspired by a feminist ethic and, second, that many students who are committed to bringing their feminist approach to law encounter barriers in the course of obtaining a law degree. Sonya's generosity ensures that the law school community will be enriched by the presence of feminist students and that their expertise will promote social justice in years to come."

The Faculty is grateful for this inspired gift and welcomes Ms. Wall to the group of generous alumni and friends who support the education of UBC law students.

Students interested in applying for the Hilda Janzen Memorial Award can access the application here (PDF).

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2011 Hildan Janzen Memorial Award, Jessie Magalios (3L)!

(From left: Professor Fiona Kelly, Professor Susan Boyd, Charlotte Wall, Jessie Magalios, donor Sonya Wall, Professor Emma Cunliffe)

Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award

The Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award in Law is generously endowed in memory of Auriol Gurner Young for students in the J.D. Program who have made significant contributions to feminism and the law, for instance through academic achievement, volunteer work, community activism, or work with a feminist organization.

This $3000 award honours the memory of Auriol Gurner Young, who died in 2005 after a lengthy and determined struggle with cancer. She was a remarkable woman with a lifelong love of learning and a great intellectual curiosity. In her 50's, Auriol started her university education, graduating with first class honours in 1983. She loved life, people and ideas.

Winners of the Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award

2010-2011 Patricia Barkaskas, J.D. 2011 and Bree Makohn, J.D. 2011

2009-2010 Jodie Gauthie, J.D. 2010 & Kalamity (Karen) Hildebrandt

2008-2009 Peggy Lee, J.D. 2009 & Dia Montgomery

2007-2008 Ashleigh Keall & Brittany Skinner, LL.B. 2008

2006-2007 Brenda Belak, LL.B. 2008

Marlee G. Kline Essay Prize

"The various intersections between gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and other differentiating characteristics, affect how and when all women experience sexism."

- Marlee Kline, 1989

The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies will award a $250 prize to the best essay written by a J.D. student attending the University of British Columbia during the 2010-2011 academic year, addressing the themes identified in the above quotation in relation to a topic dealing with law or legal regulation. The prize is offered in the name of Marlee Kline, a feminist UBC law professor who died in November 2001. The essay should be written for a UBC course, seminar, or directed research project and must incorporate feminist research and analysis.

Length: The essay shall be between 4,000 and 10,000 words, and shall be typewritten and double-spaced, using 12-point font.

Selection: The submissions will be reviewed by a committee consisting of feminist law professors and graduate students.

Submission: Students should send essay submissions to Professor Susan Boyd, Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, via email to boyd@law.ubc.ca.

Deadline: May 10, 2012

Winners of the Marlee G. Kline Essay Prize

2001 - 2002

Jamala McCrae, LL.B. 2003
"Aboriginal Treaty Rights: Should Section 15 of the Charter Apply?"

2002-2003

Dawana St. Germain, LL.B. 2003
"I am a Dangerous Woman: The Colonialist Effects of the Perceptions of Aboriginal Women"
and
Kat Kinch, LL.B. 2004
"Harbingers of a Developing Right: A Common Sense Casualty and the Congratulatory Court"

2003-2004

Efrat Arbel, LL.B. 2004
"'Always and Never Refugees': Reconciling Canada's 'Refugee' Definition with the Constitutional Equality Guarantee"

2004-2005

No award made

2005-2006

Megan Kammerer, LL.B. 2007
"Family Law's “Privatization Project”: A Feminist Analysis of Current Trends in Spousal Support Law”

2006-2007

Jeff Yuen, LL.B. 2008
“Do Sex and Sexuality Matter? Lesbian Parenting in a Gendered Legal Arena”

2007-2008

Andrea Mosher, LL.B. 2009
"Parenting by Specific Performance: Legal Parentage by Intent and Contract in Same-Sex-Headed Families"
and
Aileen Smith, LL.B. 2009
"Sex Equality in a Colonial Landscape: The Intersecting oppressions of Aboriginal Women"

2008-2009

Dia Montgomery
"Sex Selective Technologies & Indo Canadian Women: Silence and Criminalization"

2009-2010

Ava G. Murphy, J.D. 2010
"Sentencing Circles and Victims of Domestic Violence "
and
Jaime Sarophim, J.D. 2010
"Access Barred: The Effects of the Cuts and Restructuring of Legal Aid in B.C. on Women Attempting to Navigate the Provincial Family Court System"

2010-2011

Kate Mulherin, JD 2011
"A Role for Intersectionality? Critique and Reform of Advertising Regulation in Canada"

Scholarships

Below are listed the scholarships designated for women entering or studying law at UBC. For a full list of scholarships, prizes and bursaries visit the UBC Law website or contact Bob Wilson, Scholarship Secretary, UBC Faculty of Law at (604) 822-2425 or wilson@law.ubc.ca.

Scholarships requiring application

FACULTY WOMEN'S CLUB ANNE WESBROOK SCHOLARSHIP - A scholarship of $2,000, given by the Faculty Women's Club of the University of B.C., was established in 1919 to honour Anne Wesbrook, wife of the first President of UBC, and a founding member and Honorary President of the Club until her death in 1957. It is awarded to a woman student who has obtained a baccalaureate degree from this university and is continuing her studies at graduate level or in the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry or Law at this university or any other approved university; or to a woman who, after third year of university studies, is proceeding directly to a degree in Medicine, Dentistry or Law at this university or any other approved university. Contact Rosemary Newman for application deadlines and details.

DORIS CURTIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - Income totalling $3,400 from a fund donated by family and friends in memory of Doris Curtis will provide scholarships for women students. Financial circumstances may be considered. Application is by letter setting forth details of need, with resume in support. Submit applications to Rosemary Newman by May 1st.

Scholarships not requiring application

DIANE KILPATRICK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - In memory of Diane Kilpatrick, LL.B. 1977, her family, friends and associates have endowed a scholarship of $1,300. It is awarded to a woman student entering second year in the Faculty of Law who has demonstrated good academic standing and an interest in helping others.

TED LE NOBEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - A scholarship of $1,300 has been endowed in memory of Ted le Nobel by his family. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Law, with preference given to a woman student entering the second year of the undergraduate program.

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