A Record Year for Research at the Faculty of Law, Western University
September 23, 2026
In 2025–26, our researchers secured more than $1.6 million in external research funding - supporting work on some of the most important legal questions of our time.
Our faculty are examining how technology is being used to facilitate gender-based violence in conflict; the foundations of international criminal law; how appellate courts make decisions; and pressing questions involving law and language, policing, equality and human rights.
The funding includes major awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Horizon Europe.
The breadth of this work is particularly exciting. There is no single model of research excellence at Western Law. Our scholars are doing ambitious doctrinal, theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary work, tackling questions that matter to law, policy and society.
Over the coming weeks, we'll be highlighting these projects and the professors behind them.
Congratulations to all of our colleagues whose work contributed to an exceptional year for research at Western Law.
