Leslie Green speaking with Anne McLellan after being conferred an honorary LL.D.
The late Professor Leslie C. Green, a world-renowned international lawyer and expert in the laws of war and international humanitarian law, and long-serving professor at the University of Alberta, was honoured in Ottawa last week when it was announced that the Judge Advocate General Award's for Legal Excellence will in future be known as the Leslie Green Award.
The Judge Advocate General is the senior legal officer in the Canadian Forces. Brigadier-General Blaise Cathcart, the Judge Advocate General, made the announcement of the Professor Leslie Green Award at a one-day continuing legal education conference held in honour of Professor Green's contributions, attended by almost all Regular and Reserve Force legal officers employed throughout Canada and abroad. Invited participants included several leading practitioners and scholars of international law, including H.E. Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood of the International Court of Justice and Judge Theodor Meron, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, who came to honour Professor Green's contributions. Three Canadian legal academics were also invited by the Judge Advocate General to participate as guest lecturers, including the Faculty of Law's Professor Joanna Harrington. Back in May, Professor Harrington co-organized a successful workshop on teaching international humanitarian law at the Faculty of Law encouraging further collaborations between military lawyers, lawyers with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and legal academics.
News of the naming of the Canadian military's legal excellence award in honour of the late Professor Leslie Green can be found in the Edmonton Journal.