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Aaron Mills wins President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Published: 7 November 2025

The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that Professor Aaron Mills has received the Թ President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Assistant Professor category. He received the award at the Fall Convocation Ceremony on October 14, 2025.

Since joining Թ in 2018, Aaron Mills has demonstrated an exceptional level of commitment to teaching Indigenous law within our BCL/JD programme. His nomination emphasized his innovative use of Indigenous pedagogy to engage students, his contributions to the decolonization of legal education at Թ, and his leadership in influencing how Indigenous legal traditions are taught at our own Faculty and in law schools across Canada.

Established in 2000, the President’s Prize recognizes educators who demonstrate outstanding commitment to students, excellence in teaching, and creativity in instructional design. Professor Mills is the seventh Թ Law professor to receive this prestigious honour, underscoring the Faculty’s ongoing commitment to pedagogical excellence.

“In an era when Canadian legal education is being called to reckon with its colonial foundations and imagine new paths forward, Mills’ teaching offers not only a model but a challenge: to transform how we think about law, to learn in relationship, and to reimagine what legal education can be,” said Dean Tina Piper. “His contributions to our Faculty have been immense, particularly for a junior colleague —especially his leadership in establishing the mandatory first-year Indigenous Legal Traditions course—and I look forward to seeing how his work will evolve and shape the Faculty.”

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