From: Elle Wintle <emw80@cam.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2026 5:13 PM
To: David R Wingfield <davidrwingfield@gmail.com>
Cc: Hector MacQueen <Hector.MacQueen@ed.ac.uk>; Zoe Sinel <zsinel@uwo.ca>; obligations <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Congratulations to Jason Neyers, winner of CALT's Prize for Academic Excellence

Hear hear! 

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On Jun 9, 2026, at 8:59 pm, Hector MacQueen <Hector.MacQueen@ed.ac.uk> wrote:



Congratulations indeed! A signal honour - well done, Jason.

 

Hector

 

Hector L MacQueen CBE FBA FRSE 

Emeritus Professor of Private Law

University of Edinburgh Law School

Old College 

South Bridge

Edinburgh EH8 9 YL

 

 

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From: Zoe Sinel <zsinel@uwo.ca>
Sent: 09 June 2026 14:31
To: obligations <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Congratulations to Jason Neyers, winner of CALT's Prize for Academic Excellence

 

Dear colleagues,

 

Since Professor Neyers is too modest to toot his own horn, I wanted to share the wonderful news that he was recently and deservedly awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Prize for Academic Excellence at CALT's annual conference held last week at Western Law. The Prize for Academic Excellence honors exceptional contribution to research and law teaching by a Canadian law teacher in mid-career. 

 

Congratulations, Jason!

 

Please see below for the text of the presentation given by CALT's President, Graham Reynolds last week:

 

It is an honor to present the CALT Prize for Academic Excellence to a recipient who in the words of their nominators, embodies the 'best of the profession - a model for the pursuit of humane, intellectually rigorous, and compassionate legal education': Professor Jason Neyers, who teaches here at Western University Faculty of law.

 

Professor Neyers is recognized today for a career that has reshaped understandings of private law both in Canada and across the globe.

 

His nominating colleagues describe him as a 'treasured colleague, teacher, mentor, and a genuinely world-leading scholar.' His influence is not just measured in his sixteen books or his extensive bibliography but in his unique ability to reconcile difficult legal doctrines with fundamental principles.

 

International colleagues from Oxford and Cambridge describe him as one of the 'most brilliant minds and communicators among the world's private lawyers,' noting that his research has enjoyed significant attention in apex courts across the Commonwealth.

 

He is also celebrated, in relation to both scholarship and teaching, for his 'uncanny ability to render complicated or challenging-to-teach concepts easy to grasp without making them facile or inexact.'

 

Some of the most profound testimony about to Professor Neyers' excellence comes from those he teaches. His former students speak of a passion for the law that is, in a word, 'infectious.' One student noted that Professor Neyers 'not only taught our class what the law once was and how it developed into the way it is, but also asked us to consider how it should be.' This is, for many of us, the ideal we are striving for.

 

Inside and beyond the classroom, Jason is widely celebrated as the 'gold standard of a colleague' and a 'vital spark plug' who facilitates the success of others, often playing an important role in organizing workshops and editing essay collections to the benefit of the legal academy as a whole.

 

Described as 'unfailingly generous' with his advice and teaching materials, he serves as a 'model for senior colleagues' in his approach to mentorship. He has been instrumental in supporting junior faculty - both at Western and internationally - by inviting them to speak at prestigious conferences and including them as co-authors on high-level projects, intentionally giving them a 'voice on the international stage' early in their careers. 

 

Whether he is leading a class of first-year students through the intricacies of tort law, organizing the international Obligations Discussion Group, or coaching the King's University College men's basketball team, Jason is a 'true community builder.'

 

Professor Neyers, for what your nominees describe as your 'originality, and a curiosity and desire to explain and justify legal doctrine on its own terms,' and for your tireless commitment to the next generation of Canadian lawyers, for the example you set for all of us, we are delighted and proud to present you with this award.

 

Please join me in congratulating Professor Jason Neyers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zoë Sinel
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)
Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
519.661.2111 x83832

 

Editor, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence

 

 

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