Heuristica is pleased to congratulate Jamil Oueidat, the winner of the 2025 University of Calgary Faculty of Law Heuristica Discovery Counsel Award for Legal Research.
This $2,000 award is presented annually to an undergraduate law student who authors the best research paper in the Faculty’s Law 693 undergraduate E-Litigation course. Jamil’s winning paper, “The Promising Use of Virtual Reality (VR) in the Realm of Evidence” exemplifies how innovative thinking and rigorous research can open new possibilities for the courtroom of the future by exploring how emerging technologies like VR could transform the way evidence is presented in court.
Heuristica also congratulates the School, Dean Laura Spitz, past Dean, Dr. Ian Holloway, and Professor Gideon Christian for their initiative in establishing and maintaining this important course — a first for a Canadian law school. The course provides students with hands-on training designed to familiarize them with technologies relevant to litigating in a digital environment, including artificial intelligence technologies used in eDiscovery document review.
Heuristica, with offices in Toronto and Calgary is Canada’s only national law firm that specializes solely in electronic evidence and complex document review. An important facet of the firm’s practice is providing education to students and to the profession on these matters.
For more information about the E-Litigation course please visit the Faculty of Law’s website.
