Sharon A. Williams, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, has contributed in a most significant way to the legal understanding and development of important areas of international law. Her seminal work on the international and national protection of movable cultural property has won her universal recognition and acclaim. Dr. Williams' other major studies devoted principally to international criminal law and human rights with special attention to terrorism, extradition and the establishment of an international Criminal Court to prosecute war criminals and criminals against humanity, as well as, on a different plane, the combatting of international environmental pollution are widely recognized as substantial and thoughtful. As an outstanding scholar she has carried forward the frontiers of knowledge in these specialized areas of international law.

Shortly after receiving his doctoral degree at Columbia, Milton Wilson's dissertation appeared as a book, "Shelley's Later Poetry", (1959) and was received as a major scholarly contribution to the study of Shelley and the theory of romanticism. Since then, most of his publications have been in the field of Canadian Literature. He is certainly one of the best critics of Canadian Literature, sensitive and learned in analysis, urbane in style.

Margo Wilson, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, has made significant contributions to knowledge about interpersonal violence, and has been a major participant in the development of theory and research methods in evolutionary psychology. She pioneered the epidemiological approach in homicide research, creatively synthesizing case data from Canada, Britain and the United States with population information to discover the distinct patterns of risk that are characteristic of marital, parental and other relationships, and she has made important discoveries about the similarities and differences between lethal and nonlethal violence against wives and children with respect to effects of such factors as family composition, age and age disparity.