Recognizing Excellence: - A Guide to Nominating Fellows of the Royal

The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the Division. [...] In her essays on the history and evolution of western legal traditions and in his most recent theoretical monograph entitled Legal Traditions of the World she draws the several threads of her scholarship together in a grand synthesis of the local vernacular and the transcendent in legal normativity. [...] Her studies on the right to privacy and the legal regimes governing the treatment of refugees, the latter being the subject of a monograph authored while she held the Bora Laskin Fellowship in Human Rights Law, reflect her capacity to see overarching legal ideals that inform apparently disparate branches of the law. [...] During the past two decades she has written several studies on codification, the interpenetration of the Civil law and the Common law traditions and the notion of mixed legal systems. [...] YYY has been at the forefront of scholars who are closely investigating the normative and conceptual premises of aboriginal law as the “law of aboriginal peoples.”, including the integration of traditional Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing.