Schulich School of Law Professor Aldo Chircop presented with the 2005 Walter Owen Book Prize

The Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Foundation for Legal Research, is designed to recognize excellent legal writing and to reward outstanding new contributions to Canadian legal doctrine that enhance the quality of legal research in this country. The prize was created in honour of Walter Owen, Q. C., P. C., a prominent member of the Law Society of British Columbia, former Lieutenant Governor of that province, past President of the Canadian Bar Association and original President of the Foundation for Legal Research.