Faculty research student Andreas Samartzis has been given special recognition by the jury in the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism 2023: 'Federalism: What Makes it Work (or not!)' at McGill University, which was awarded at a symposium on 5 May. His entry was on the topic 'Judicial Supremacy in the European Federal Union'.
Created in 2016, the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism is made possible through the generous support of Rachel Baxter, BSc’84, BCL’88 and Colin Baxter, BCL’90, LLB’90, who both practice law in Ottawa.
The overarching goal of the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism, in Canada and abroad. The competition is open to both to law and political science students and young practitioners from around the world.
The first three editions received over 100 entries, from 22 countries (in addition to Canada, there were participants from Germany, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Zimbabwe).
For more information please refer to the Baxter Family Competition website.
