This year’s recipients of the Faculty of Law Dean’s Course Prize were acknowledged at a reception on Tues., Feb. 7. These are the students who received the highest grades in their Fall 2022 courses:

• Administrative Law – Tyler Mutch
• Business Associations – Taylor Balagno
• Civil Procedure section 1 – Prince Dhillon
• Civil Procedure section 2 – Caleb Champagne
• Conflicts of Law – Priya Parihar
• Community Lawyering – Matthew Hauzer
• Dispute Resolution – John McDonnell
• Ethical Lawyering – Darshpreet Rattan
• Evidence section 1 – Nataya Smetaniuk
• Evidence section 2 – Tara Christensen
• Health Law Pardeep Birak
• Intellectual Property – Gregory Read
• International Law – Abbey Fortin
• Real Estate Law – Kimia Shiri
• Sentencing – Pardeep Birak
• Sports Law: Professional League – Gabrielle Vecchio
• Trusts – Mitchell Carter
• Selected Topics: Class actions – Lauren Tyrell
• Selected Topics: Elder Law – Ashley Allen Valleau
• Selected Topics: First Nations Gov/Econ Development – Emma Payne.
• Selected Topics: Mergers and Acquisitions – Matthew Yensen
• Selected Topics: Securities Law – Eva Sui

Donors who sponsored the following prizes were:

• Dean’s Course Prize in Tax Law – Eva Siu
• The Law Society of BC Outgoing President Award for Selected Topics: Designing Legal Expert Systems – Anyssa Plan
• The MacLean Law Prize in Family Law – Hannah LaRoy
• The Roper Greyell LLP Prize in Employment Law – Kayley Boutcher
• The Law Foundation Public Interest Award for Clinical Practice 2 – Kayley Boutcher
• The Law Foundation Public Interest Award for Clinical Practice 3 – Cem Bicer
• The Gregory S. Pun Prize in Advanced Legal Research – Tiffany Syyong

Additionally, there is a newly established Law Alumni Fund. All the other course prizes also received a sponsored prize from this fund.