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E.M. Culliton Scholarship Recipient Announced
September 20, 2024The 2024 E.M. Culliton Scholarship, for $10,000, has been awarded to Rebecca Crookshanks, currently residing in Saskatoon.
Rebecca Crookshanks completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Victoria. She applied her knowledge to practice criminal law, spending ten years as a legal aid lawyer. During this time, she gained significant court experience litigating criminal law, administrative law, and human rights law matters. Her exposure to issues around access to justice made her aware of the systemic influences on individuals while recognizing the importance of maintaining the rule of law and privacy rights. Rebecca has been accepted into the fall 2024 Masters of Laws program at the University of Saskatchewan.
Rebecca’s thesis will examine how police surveillance and the use of facial recognition tools present challenges to Charter rights and informational privacy and the appropriate role these technologies should play in law enforcement and the administration of justice.
The E.M. Culliton Scholarship was established in 1981 in honour of the former Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. It is awarded for the pursuit of graduate studies in criminal law.
Recipients are selected on the basis of exceptional academic record, research potential, and exceptional service to the practice of law in Saskatchewan.
For more information about the scholarship, please visit the Law Society’s Awards, Bursaries, and Scholarships page.