Thursday, August 20, 2009

Prof. Ernest Weinrib, the Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law, has been awarded the 2009 Killam Prize in the social sciences. The Killam Prize is Canada's highest honour for scholarly career achievement.

Weinrib, who has been at U of T since 1968, is Canada's pre-eminent legal theorist and a leading scholar of private law. His work addresses fundamental questions about the relationship between law, freedom and rationality and presents new insights into the nature of legal coherence, the limits of judicial competence, the autonomy of legal reasoning and the relation of legal doctrine to legal theory. Combining legal and philosophical analysis, he has been a pioneer in interdisciplinary legal scholarship in Canada. 

"We are all so proud of Ernie," said Dean Mayo Moran of the Faculty of Law. "He is a treasure,and it is wonderful to see him receive this public recognition for his years of inspired and pioneering scholarship in legal theory. He has had a profound influence on so many students and colleagues over the course of his career. We are all fortunate that he has chosen to make his intellectual home at the Faculty of Law."

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