Canadian Bar Association Walter Owen Book Prize

CLC-Post, the blog of the Canadian Bar Association's annual Canadian Legal Conference, spoke to the winners of the 2011 Walter Owen Book Prize. This year's conference in Halifax ends tomorrow.

The Prize is designed "to recognize excellent legal writing and to reward outstanding new contributions to Canadian legal literature that enhance the quality of legal research in this country".

The winners this year are:

• Professor Ed Ratushny (University of Ottawa) for his book The Conduct of Public Inquiries: Law, Policy and Practice
• Dennis Mahony of Torys LLP and contributors David Dell, Tyson Dyck, Patricia Koval, John Laskin, Michael Pickersgill, Alex Smith, John Terry and John Tobin or the book The Law of Climate Change in Canada