DCL student Julie McCann wins APDQ prize
Doctoral candidate Julie McCann has won the 2009 Prize for best master鈥檚 thesis from the Association des professeurs de droit du Qu茅bec (APDQ). Her work, titled "La prescription des cr茅ances: 脿 la crois茅e du droit substantiel et du droit processuel", was written under the supervision of Prof.聽 Michelle Cumyn (Laval U.). She will receive the prize during the annual APDQ congress on April 17, 2010.
Her thesis will also be published by Wilson & Lafleur in its Collection Bleue, under the title Prescription extinctive, d茅lais extinctifs et fins de non-recevoir en droit qu茅b茅cois.
McCann, who already has published a half dozen articles, holds several doctoral prizes, including the Hydro-Qu茅bec doctoral prize for Law. Her current doctoral project, supervised by Prof. Jean-Guy Belley, focuses on public-private partnership contracts. Julie McCann is also an instructor at the Faculty of Law.