Dear Colleagues:

 

It has just been announced that ODGer Lewis Klar has received the prestigious Fleming Award which is awarded bi-annually to an international scholar in tort law. From the citation:

 

University of Alberta Professor Lewis N. Klar is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious John G. Fleming Award in Torts, according to an announcement today by UC Berkeley Law School. A giant in the world of Canadian tort law, Klar will deliver the fourth Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law on Wednesday October 26, 2016 at 11:20 a.m. in room 105 of the law school. … Professor Klar is the author of Tort Law, 5th edition, 2012, and a co-author of Canadian Tort Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 14^th edition, 2014. In recognition of Professor Klar’s contributions to tort law, a Special Edition of the Alberta Law Review has just been published in his honour. Professor Klar was a contributor to the 10^th edition of Fleming’s The Law of Torts (2011) as well as to Torts Tomorrow: A Tribute to John Fleming (1998). Professor Klar is an elected member of the American Law Institute. His works have been cited hundreds of times by the courts in every province in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

I have attached the full press release to this e-mail which contains more information about the genesis of the award, its past recipients (including several ODGers), and about the public lecture for those who are interested. In due course, I will also post information about the special edition of the Alberta Law Review when a link becomes available on the reviews website.

 

I am sure everyone on the ODG well join me in congratulating Professor Klar!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)