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Queen’s LAW REPORTS
2020
WANTED:
SAFE HAVEN FOR MORE –
AND SOON
Legal experts call for action on the global refugee crisis
Coping with COVID
Community rises to the challenge
Improving inclusivity
Future black leaders empowered
CONTENTS DEAN’S MESSAGE
COVER STORY LAW REPORTS DEAN’S COUNCIL MEMBERS
26 Wanted: Safe haven for more refugees – and soon Queen’s Law Reports is
David Sharpe, Law’95, Chair
President and CEO
published annually by Bridging Finance Inc.
QUEEN’S FACULTY OF LAW Sheila A. Murray, Law’82 (Com’79), Past Chair
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Coroporate Director
Matt Shepherd, Director CI Financial Corp.
Macdonald Hall
Peter Brady, Law’96
Queen’s University Partner
Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 McCarthy Tétrault LLP
law.queensu.ca
James Dorr, Law’87 (Artsci’84)
Editor General Counsel & Secretary
Lisa Graham, Com’88, Artsci’92, MPA’08 Orbis Investment Management Ltd.
Manager of Communications Peter Griffin, Law’77
Tel: 613-533-6000, ext. 74259 Counsel
Fax: 613-533-6611 Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
Five immigration law experts explain why and which international laws and policies Email: grahaml@queensu.ca
must change in the near future to provide a long-term win for Canada’s economy Jennifer Keenan, Law’90
Contributing Editor Chair, Board of Directors
and cultural diversity. BY MARK WITTEN
Catherine M. Perkins, Arts’58 Dignitas International
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Contributors Jaimie Lickers, Law’07 (Artsci’03)
FEATURES Partner
Ken Cuthbertson, Arts’74, Law’83
Gowling WLG
Phil Gaudreau
Allan McGavin, Law’12 (Com’08)
5 AI lab launches timely Zabrina Testa
Associate
Alumni and friends of Queen’s Law,
Mark Witten
tools for pandemic job Farris LLP
I
write to you at a time of great upheaval. I hope that you and your family and
Design + Production
insecurities Amanda Black
Kelley McKinnon, Law’88 (Artsci’85) friends are well and that you have adapted the best you can to the changes
MyOpenCourt, a project of the Fellow, Advanced Leadership Initiative 2020, that we have all had to confront.
Conflict Analytics Lab directed Harvard University I began my deanship almost a year ago. The year was proving to be both
Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees, Queen's University challenging and exciting—and then along came a global pandemic. I was told
by Professor Samuel Dahan, is
available now to help out-of-work Kristin J. Morch, Law’85 (Artsci’80) when I began as dean to expect the unexpected, but I didn’t quite expect this
Canadians understand their General Counsel kind of unexpected. But then none of us did.
legal rights and options. Continental Saxon Group On Friday, March 13, the University announced that all in-person teaching
BY PHIL GAUDREAU Anton Sahazizian, Law’94 would cease due to the COVID-19 virus. There were still three weeks of classes left
Managing Director, Head of U.S. Mergers & in the term. I am extremely proud of the way that our students, faculty and staff
Acquisitions responded. Within several weeks of their final exams, students shifted to online
10 Coping with the Moelis & Company learning, completed the term, and wrote exams remotely. They lived up to the
Stephen Shamie, Law’86 challenge during a stressful time, and they came through with flying colours.
COVID crisis Managing Partner I am grateful for the dedication to our students shown by faculty and staff.
Through resilience, initiative, Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP As you will read in the following pages, some of our faculty were no strangers to
innovation and that legendary technology in the classroom when this began—but many were. People responded
R. Paul Steep, Law’80 (Artsci’77)
collegiality, the Queen’s Law with incredible grace and good will, leaving their comfort zones and entering into
Partner
community continues rising FSC McCarthy Tétrault LLP a bold new world of Zoom conferences and Teams meetings. Their sense of loyalty
to the challenges of a global to our students was truly impressive.
Richard Tory, Law’89
crisis unprecedented in Finally, I wish to express my thanks to our alumni. Throughout the past several
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Managing Director
our lifetimes. Morgan Stanley months, I have received many messages of support and offers of assistance –
BY LISA GRAHAM
Patrice Walch-Watson, Law’91 and this at a time when I know that people have had to confront serious new
ALUMNI PROFILES Senior Managing Director, General Counsel challenges in their own home and work environments. I have been very touched
24 Yolande James, Law’03 & Corporate Secretary by your willingness to be engaged with the law school community – your law
19 A grand idea whose time Canada Pension Plan Investment Board school community.
34 Kirsten Thompson, Law’98
had come Frank E. Walwyn, Law’93 Having survived the last term, the task now is to plan for the next academic
36 Scott Palmer, Law’07 Partner year during a time of continued uncertainty. I find it very reassuring to know that
Since its inception six years ago,
WeirFoulds LLP I am surrounded by such dedicated and capable faculty, students and staff, and
Queen’s Chapter of the Black Law
DEPARTMENTS Alan Whyte, Law’79 (Artsci’76) such loyal and committed graduates. We are an institution that can adapt to new
Students’ Association of Canada has
Partner challenges because we seek to honour the sense of community that has made
boosted the school’s inclusivity and 2 SCHOOL NEWS
Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP us strong in the past.
empowered future black leaders by
16 FACULTY NEWS The Hon. Darla Wilson, Law’84 (Artsci’81) Best wishes, and take care,
connecting students with successful
Justice
JAY PARIS
alumni mentors. 38 ALUMNI NOTES
Superior Court of Justice Mark Walters
BY KEN CUTHBERTSON, LAW’83 48 ALUMNI EVENTS Dean of Law
SCHOOL NEWS
Banner year for research grants Dahan-directed dispute resolution technology platform puts the AI in legal aid
Queen’s Law professors excelled in national research competitions last year, receiving a grand When determining fair sentences, judges usually look to
total of more than $1 million. This amount is more than double the school’s previous record. precedent, laboriously poring over records. But what if the
technology existed to analyze thousands of similar cases quickly
Lahey wants tax and budget systems to work for all and connect low-income and/or remotely located users to a pro
Professor Kathleen Lahey sees the issues relating to tax revenues and budgetary bono lawyer?
expenditures growing – specifically how tax laws, government budgets and Enter the Intelligent Dispute Resolution System, a product of
evolving realities “work invisibly to ‘keep women, vulnerable, and Indigenous the Conflict Analytics Lab operated by Queen’s Law and Smith
persons in their places’ in every region of the globe, despite the vast number of School of Business and directed by Professor Samuel Dahan.
binding statutory, regulatory, constitutional and international legal prohibitions Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this platform –
on all forms of discrimination against all persons, including on gender and other MyOpenCourt.org – has already produced its first two
disadvantaging grounds.” tools for self-represented litigants: employee vs contractor
Her cumulative $1 million in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council determinations and severance calculation predictions (see page
(SSHRC) support got a boost of $434,254 in 2019 grants for three projects “on 5). Another tool, algorithms for customer disputes, is well under
policies that can matter”: Taxing for Gender Equality in Fiscal Governance, Taxing development. These tools are at the heart of a project granted
for Gender and Economic Equality in Ghana (with Professor Bita Amani and SSHRC funding of $244,562: “AI-Tribunal for Small Claims:
others), and Economic Gender Equality, Childcare, and Pay Equity in Canada Building an Intelligent Dispute Resolution System.”
(with partners). “This is the lab’s core project,” says Dahan, “because it
This supported research agenda also increases Lahey’s opportunities to present, touches upon so many areas of our work: legal predictions,
advise, and advocate globally for both gender equality and equality for all in tax- negotiation support, democratization of technology, and access
budget systems as a whole. Helping her acquire and analyze data and laws relevant to justice.” His partners are three other professors: Yuri Levin,
to these projects are six research associates, including Queen’s Law students. Their Smith School’s Executive Director of Analytics and AI; Xiaodan
work enables Lahey to prepare a steady stream of submissions to international Zhu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s; and
organizations, government officials, and open-minded influencers. In terms of Maxime Cohen, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill. The
preparedness and response systems, this messaging now includes the COVID-19 new grant also supports up to 15 graduate students from law,
pandemic’s many complex fiscal and policy issues, plus the pandemic’s longer- computing, and data science.
term implications for future government and sustainability issues. Dahan sees the system’s applications expanding to small
claims, personal injury, insurance, trademark disputes, and
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Lahey actively connects with Canadian and international organizations (e.g., the
Tax Justice Network, United Nations Women, the IMF) that can help ensure that beyond. Because the system improves its responses by learning as
governance norms, policies, practices and laws, including revenue, benefit, and other it works, he’s hoping for feedback soon from users receiving
fiscal laws, improve human and biosphere “sustain/ability” and equality for all. positive settlements and companies that integrated the platform
Professor Kathleen Lahey Professor Samuel Dahan, Director, Conflict Analytics Lab successfully into their online processes.
Cockfield to catch global financial criminals Thomas case book team to provide Canadian schools with tort law’s missing social context
Canada and most other countries have difficulty tracking and convicting Professor Jean Thomas and two Ontario university co-applicants are
people involved in offshore tax evasion and international money sharing an SSHRC Insight Grant of $130,227 to study “Tort Law in Its
laundering. Professor Art Cockfield, Law’93, and Professor Christian Social Context.” Thomas considers tort law the answer to most lawful
Leuprecht (RMC and Queen’s Political Science) are working to change that. societies’ questions about reasonable conduct, foreseeable harms,
Armed with a $152,859 research grant and assisted by students and an compensable injuries, and how wrongdoers will compensate those they
innovative tool, they’re digging into the hidden financial underworld. have wronged.
“We’re compiling facts from case law involving global financial crimes,” “In short, it’s a powerful force for shaping the way people treat one
says Cockfield. “Then we’ll discern patterns for these crimes, which will another,” she says, “yet each of these determinations depends upon a
help governments devise optimal laws and policies that will allow law specific judge’s experience and viewpoint.
enforcement to investigate and arrest financial criminals – and terrorist “Since those in positions to make the laws about how people fundamentally
financiers.” interact come largely from socially dominant groups, tort law may reflect and
Having worked together on different global financial crime projects reinforce the inequalities, stereotypes and prejudices of the society it springs
over the past six years, he and Leuprecht came up with a “new approach to from. For instance,” she says, “judges have historically been white males
help understand these pressing social problems.” Part of their research for whose idea of ‘reasonable’ may not necessarily resonate with women,
their five-year, SSHRC-funded project, “Invisible Underworld: Inhibiting racialized persons, or those with disabilities. Even in the absence of serious
Global Financial Crime,” involves sifting through international judicial injustices, tort law can underpin and perpetuate those systemic social
decisions surrounding global financial crime accessible in English and inequalities. In effect, tort law’s social context can skew judicial results.”
coding the data. Then they’ll apply Social Network Analysis, a new social That’s why her research team is so concerned with the way tort law is
science tool that uses computer analysis of data to discern patterns taught in Canadian law schools. “The textbooks and casebooks used
surrounding such crimes. barely mention the importance of tort law’s context,” she claims. “This gap
While their research will eventually produce one or more books, in the between its social significance and the way it is taught is a disservice both
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short term Cockfield and Leuprecht are writing a paper and organizing a to law students and to justice in Canadian society more broadly. It is this
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conference where the world’s leading experts will exchange information. gap that our five-year project aims to bridge by creating a new casebook
Professor Art Cockfield, Law’93, Associate Dean for teaching tort law more holistically in the future.”
(Academic Policy) r Professor Jean Thomas
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Weinrib creating a theory for a just administration Conflict Analytics Lab launches timely tools for pandemic’s job insecurities
Administrative law hasn’t developed in a coherent way,” says Professor Amid the COVID-19 crisis, millions of “These tools are as valuable for
Jacob Weinrib. “It is plagued by incoherence, excessive attention to detail, Canadians find themselves out of work employers as they are for workers,” MyOpenCourt
and an ever-shifting array of doctrines that leave persons uncertain of and facing uncertainty about returning. says Dahan. “Navigating employer- (myopencourt.org)
their rights and public officials uncertain of their obligations. I plan to The situation opens workers up to contractor relationships is challenging,
create a theory capable of guiding its principled development.” exploitation, particularly in “gig and severance is difficult to calculate.
Free AI-powered platform to help
With a $55,612 SSHRC grant for his “Just Administration: A Unified economy” jobs where their legal rights We hope to provide both workers and
are unclear. employers with ways to avoid pitfalls Canadians answer basic legal
Theory” project, he will work with student research assistants to explore
the connection between human rights to state action and the structure MyOpenCourt, a project of the and find equitable solutions to the questions and to connect them
of modern administrative law. His guiding idea is that the purpose of Conflict Analytics Lab at Queen’s challenges created by the pandemic.” with a pro bono lawyer.
the administrative state is to realize a class of human rights that cannot University, will now help these workers Powerful AI technology lies behind
be fulfilled apart from government action. “We need to understand understand their rights – and options. both tools. Working from thousands of Free web tools launched on
how human rights both determine the kinds of tasks that administrative “Many Canadian workers cannot Canadian employment law cases,
afford an employment lawyer or live in May 13 to help Canadians who are
agencies must perform and impose legal constraints on the mode of MyOpenCourt can make predictions
their performance.” His ultimate goal is for his articles and conference areas with few skilled employment law that can offer guidance to workers in out of work or might be turning to
presentations to result in greater coherence in the way administrative experts,” says Professor Samuel Dahan, these uncertain situations. the gig economy to supplement
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law is taught and developed not only in Canada but around the world. Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab. While these applications cannot their income during the pandemic.
“Since COVID-19’s arrival in Canada, take the place of a lawyer, they can
Professor Jacob Weinrib we’ve seen nearly two million jobs lost help clients understand whether they
MyOpenCourt is a project of
with terminations and layoffs across even have a case before they approach
Kerr studies collective experience in sentencing racialized defendants many different sectors. As job losses a lawyer. Should a user discover they the Conflict Analytics Lab (CAL) at
A judge must weigh many factors at sentencing, notes Professor and started to accumulate in the early weeks of do have a case, MyOpenCourt will Queen’s University, which strives
Criminal Law Group Director Lisa Kerr: the gravity of the offence, the the pandemic, we realized we needed to automatically connect the user to a to build a fairer future by improving
degree of responsibility, and the potential collateral consequences of speed up the launch of our tools to help partnering law firm at no cost. access to justice through data
punishment. In 1997, in response to the overrepresentation of Indigenous Canadians who have lost work.” The MyOpenCourt tools have been
people in custody, Parliament directed judges to exercise restraint in the use analytics research. The CAL,
MyOpenCourt currently features two developed by students and researchers
of prison and pay “special attention” to the circumstances of Indigenous free and simple-to-use web-based tools at Queen’s Faculty of Law, Queen’s directed by Professor Samuel
people. In 1999, the Supreme Court in R v. Gladue held that judges must that harness artificial intelligence and Smith School of Business, Queen’s Dahan, combines academics,
consider systemic and historic factors when sentencing Indigenous data science technologies. Both are Faculty of Engineering and Applied technology experts and legal
defendants. As a result, case-specific Gladue Reports have become a model available at the project site at Science, and partners like McGill
for assessing culpability in light of collective experience at sentencing. professionals to revolutionize
myopencourt.org. University and institutions based in the
After observing the extension of these approaches to the sentencing of The “Am I an employee or contractor?” U.S. and Europe. Professor Maxime people’s approach to conflicts
other racialized defendants, Kerr successfully applied for SSHRC support for application can determine the likelihood Cohen of McGill and Professor and to better serve those who
her project “Sentencing Racialized Defendants: Collective Experience and that a work arrangement is an Jonathan Touboul of Brandeis cannot afford traditional justice.
the Promise of a Fit Sanction.” She is using the $45,550 grant to hire research employment relationship or that of a University provided data science
assistants, attend court hearings and conferences, and convene non-
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contractor through a fast, anonymous expertise, helping to translate the case Learn more at
adversarial events where experienced lawyers, judges and community questionnaire. data into predictions.
advocates can address whether and how to “extend” Gladue. conflictanalytics.queenslaw.ca
Workers who believe they have Unfortunately, the MyOpenCourt
Professor Lisa Kerr
been wrongfully dismissed can use the technology cannot currently be used to
“How much severance am I entitled generate case outcomes for Québec-
Vasanthakumar studies transitional and transnational justice for exiles to?” tool to calculate reasonable notice based clients.
Following civil wars, diasporas – groups who have settled in foreign countries for dismissal. — PHIL GAUDREAU
after flight or exile – become communities of concern to both their countries
of origin and residence. What rights and responsibilities still tie exiles to the
former, and how is the latter obligated to facilitate this relationship?
“Contentious questions,” observes Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar, who
has been awarded $33,650 to find answers.
Her SSHRC project, “Transitional Justice as Transnational Justice:
partnering with diasporas to secure justice from afar,” looks both
backwards and forward. “Transitional justice involves righting wrongs,
rebuilding societies, and fostering trust,” Vasanthakumar says. “When a
diaspora contains victims and perpetrators of these injustices, and is a site
of criticism and opposition to the government in power, its involvement
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can be fraught if necessary.”
She is basing her research on Toronto’s Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, 11
years post war. Previous fieldwork with this community has convinced her
that their complex, ongoing situation “offers important scope for public As the number of job losses in the Canadian economy approached a record-high 2 million due to COVID-19, the Conflict Analytics Lab directed
debates and research to inform both Canadian and international policy.” by Professor Samuel Dahan released two free web tools on May 13 to help Canadians who are out of work or might be turning to the gig
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar economy to supplement their income during the pandemic.
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Webber given ‘Royal Assent’ Flanagan appointed University of Alberta’s 14th President
Professor Grégoire Webber was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s Bill Flanagan, Dean of Queen’s Law from 2005 to 2019,
College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists when it met in Ottawa last steps into his new role as President and Vice-Chancellor
November. Membership is academic Canada’s highest recognition of research and of the University of Alberta on July 1. “After an extensive
scholarly accomplishment. Members may have achieved academic excellence, international search and careful consideration of many
mentored young scholars, or advised governments, NGOs and fellow Canadians outstanding candidates, we are proud to select Bill Flanagan
on matters of public interest. – an outstanding academic leader and innovator,” said Kate
Already in his 13-year career, Webber has taught at Canadian and U.K. universities, Chisholm, QC, Chair of U of A’s Board of Governors, on
been widely published, has advised multiple branches of government, and even March 19. With the university at a “critical juncture,” given
co-founded (with Owen Rees, Law’02) a not-for-profit to improve the quality of dramatic shifts in the province’s post-secondary landscape
Supreme Court advocacy. At Queen’s, he is the Canada Research Chair in Public Law and its immediate reaction to COVID-19, she cited Flanagan’s
and Philosophy of Law. As a new RSC member, he wants to develop a mentoring “proven ability to identify opportunities for growth to the
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guide to helping new academics share their work with the broader community. benefit of the research and teaching mission of the whole
In congratulating him, Dean Mark Walters, Law’89, said, “Professor Webber has university” at Queen’s Law as key to his selection for the role.
made a truly significant mark in the fields of constitutional law and constitutional Bill Flanagan, University of Alberta President
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theory on both the national and international levels, helping policy-makers
address some pressing issues that dominate our social and political lives.” Anand a first-time MP and cabinet minister LSS salutes Khimji’s excellent teaching
Professor Grégoire Webber Anita Anand, Professor Mohamed Khimji, the David Allgood Professor
a Queen’s Law in Business Law, won the 2020 Stanley M. Corbett Award
professor from for Teaching Excellence. His nominees lauded him for
Highest research title for Lahey and Bala: ‘Distinguished University Professors’ 1999 to 2005, was enthusiastically making cutting-edge corporate law issues
Two Law faculty members in two years have received contributions to Queen’s, Canada and the world. elected Liberal MP accessible to students, challenging them with engaging
Queen’s highest research-related honour: the Distinguished Professor Kathleen Lahey, whose exceptional work for Oakville on assignments and going above and beyond in offering
University Professor title for outstanding and sustained on gender, the Indigenous, LGBQTTI2SF, poverty, Oct. 19, 2019, and thoughtful feedback. Like all Law Students’ Society award
research, teaching excellence, and significant and lasting development, and environmental sustainabilities in tax, a month later was winners announced in April, Khimji gave his acceptance
budgetary, and human rights laws has influenced her sworn in as Minister from home via video, but he had a helper: son Zain,
teaching and legal policy work in all regions of the world, of Public Services who had a special message for the class of 2020.
as well as in Canadian courts, was named Distinguished and Procurement
University Professor in May. She has requested it be by Prime Minister
conferred in honour of Indigenous scholar and advocate Justin Trudeau.
Trish Monture, Law’88, LLD’09. She is Canada’s
Professor Nick Bala, Law’77, whose outstanding first-ever Hindu
contributions to family law have significantly impacted cabinet minister.
Canada’s justice system, was an inaugural honoree. The Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services A legal academic
designation of William R. Lederman Distinguished and Procurement for 20 years, she
University Professor – the title plus his chosen honorific – is an expert on the regulation of capital markets, with a
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was officially bestowed on him at 2019’s Fall Convocation. specific focus on corporate governance, enforcement,
As Bala says, the designation reflects not only on oneself, capital-raising techniques and systemic risk. Dean Mark
but also, in his case, “on the whole Faculty, now such a Walters calls his former colleague “an intellectual force
Professor Kathleen Lahey Professor Nick Bala, Law’77 strong research centre.” to be reckoned with.”
LSS teaching award winner Professor Mohamed Khimji with son Zain.
New focus on Global Justice at Queen’s Law
Legal scholarship took another step forward last fall when the Meet Dean Mark Walters’ three newest strategic alumni advisors
Faculty became publisher of the Philippe Kirsch Institute’s PKI Three prominent graduates recently all in Toronto. On a one-year leave since Supreme Court of Canada on landmark
Global Justice Journal (https://globaljustice.queenslaw.ca/), joined the Dean’s Council to give him September, she has spent time at Queen’s treaty cases.
with Professor Sharry Aiken as its co-editor-in-chief. advice on the school’s strategic directions Law drafting modernized instructions for
“My hope is that the Journal will be a leading venue for and to help with its efforts in fundraising, Ontario judges to prepare their jurors for Allan McGavin,
commentary and insights by researchers and practitioners alumni network expansion, plus student civil trials. Law’12 (Com’08),
engaged in the field of international justice – here at Queen’s recruitment and placement. Jaimie Lickers, a corporate lawyer
and beyond,” she said at the launch. “The Journal aligns well Law’07, is a partner with Farris LLP in
with the work of the SSHRC-funded Canadian Partnership for Justice Darla in Gowling WLG’s Vancouver, advises
International Justice, of which Professor Darryl Robinson and Wilson, Law’84 Hamilton office and owners, directors
I are co-researchers.” (Artsci’81), national leader of the and executives of
A hybrid academic journal and blog, the Journal is designed to appointed to the firm’s Indigenous both public and
educate academics, students and practitioners on developments Superior Court of Law Group. An private companies across various
in international human rights law, humanitarian law, international Queen’s Law now publishes the PKI Global Justice Journal, with Justice in 2007, has led experienced litigator, industries. He’s also a member of
criminal law, plus transnational and transitional justice. Professor Sharry Aiken as its co-editor-in-chief. two teams of civil she advances First Nations’ wealth, the school’s BC Alumni Council
judges and is a board economic development, autonomy and and Director of the QUAA Global
member of the Court’s Judges’ Association, rights, and has appeared before the Branch Network.
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Trio of Associate Deans expands New clinic director to cultivate remarked that the visitors “already knew quite a bit about
Walters’ leadership team local ‘innovation ecosystem’ studying law and had good questions about the profession.” 2021-22 clerkships climb to new record
Aboriginal law instructor Hugo Choquette, Law’05,
Working with some of the greatest legal minds across
Dean Mark Walters appointed two faculty members and Tomi Adebiyi was promoted to LLM’10, PhD’17, recently appointed Academic Director of
the country is a crowning achievement for new grads.
reappointed a third to senior academic positions on his Director of the Queen’s Business the Certificate in Law program, says, “We can learn from
Surpassing last year’s record of 14 clerkship recipients,
leadership team in March. Professor Art Cockfield, a Law Law Clinic (QBLC) last November Akwesasne, and in return faculty and students can provide
15 of Queen’s Law’s finest got the nod this spring for
alumnus, tax law scholar and policy consultant who has after only 10 months as a staff some help where the community needs it.” To date, that
2021-22. Leading the way are three selected to clerk at
received more than $6 million in research grants over lawyer supervising the students help includes child welfare and international trade law
the Supreme Court of Canada. “I am thrilled at the idea
his career, is Associate Dean (Academic Policy). who serve the clinic’s start-up and projects, and training justices of the peace.
of working alongside the incredible legal minds –
Professor Gail Henderson, a corporate law expert and entrepreneur clients. Born in
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justices, other clerks and court staff – who make up
collaborator in three grant-funded research projects into Lagos, she practised with one of Indigenous students shine the Supreme Court,” says Siobhan Morris, Law’19, who
financial empowerment and financial literacy since joining Nigeria’s leading business law
Kanyen’keha:ka will work directly with Chief Justice Richard Wagner.
Queen’s in 2016, is now Associate Dean (Faculty Relations). Tomi Adebiyi firms for about three years before
woman Stacia Loft, “I expect to learn a great deal from everyone, and I can’t
Professor Joshua Karton, an expert on international emigrating to complete an LLM (corporate/commercial law) at
Law’20, a two-term wait to make my own contributions to the service that
commercial law and co-lead researcher on the largest-ever McGill, work with Saskatchewan’s Pro Bono Law and Human
elected Band the Court provides to the Canadian public.”
empirical study of international arbitration, continues as Rights Commission, and then join Queen’s. Her new role is to
Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research), a position enhance experiential learning opportunities for students and Councillor of the
he has held since 2017. to build relationships with more community organizations in Mohawks of the Clerkships for 2021-22
Kingston’s “innovation ecosystem” – social enterprises, not- Bay of Quinte,
Supreme Court of Canada:
for-profits and charitable corporations – that will help the was selected to
Siobhan Morris, Law’19 (Chief Justice Richard Wagner);
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Kingston area’s budding entrepreneurs and innovators. participate in the
Don Couturier, Law’20 (Justice Nicholas Kasirer);
Governor General’s
Jocelyn Rempel, Law’20 (Justice Michael Moldaver)
Strengthening ties with Akwesasne Canadian Leadership
Conference, won the Federal Court of Appeal:
2019 Dentons Canada LLP Best Substantive Paper Award Irene Cybulsky, Law’20 (Justice David Near);
for “Tax Liberty as Law: Beyond the Confines of an Imposed Aicha Raeburn-Cherradi, Law’21 (Justice Donald Rennie)
Taxation System on First Nations Peoples” and will be
Federal Court:
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articling with Amnesty International Canada.
Rachel Hay, Law’21, a Kelly Zhang, Law’21 (Justice Christine Pallotta)
28-year-old resident Tax Court of Canada:
Associate Deans Art Cockfield, Gail Henderson and Joshua Karton of Tyendinaga Dennis Do, Law'20; Felix Lavoie, Law'20
Mohawk Territory, is
one of the youngest Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta:
people ever invited Carly Williams, Law’21
Former military lawyer now Assistant Dean
to address a Law and B.C. Supreme Court: Rory Shaw, Law’20
Phillip Drew, Law’00, LLM’12, previously an Intelligence Society Association
Officer with the Canadian Armed Forces and a lawyer in the
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conference. Her B.C. Court of Appeal: Michelle de Haas, Law’21
Judge Advocate General’s Office, was appointed Assistant
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selected research Ontario Court of Appeal: Rachel Oster, Law’20
Dean of JD and Graduate Legal Studies in January. He’s a 31- paper asserts that
year military veteran who holds a doctorate in international “it’s impossible and Ontario Superior Court: Brad Alford, Law’21;
law from the University of Frankfurt (Oder), has been Elder Rick Oakes, Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs Helper, holds up unviable for colonial countries to continue to ignore and Kathy Jiang, Law’21; Isabel Yoo, Law’21
teaching in the International Law Programs at Herstmonceux a historic wampum belt as he explains the origins of the pre-colonial reject Indigenous rights to sovereignty.”
Castle since 2012 and has been an Associate Professor with Six Nations Confederacy to Queen’s Law community members at Darian Doblej,
Australian National University College of Law since 2016. the “Understanding Through Learning” roundtable held in Law’21 (Artsci’18),
In his new position, he’s responsible for legal education, Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. a member of
from admissions and program design through to ensuring Queen’s Law continues to build important relationships with Whitesand First
that the curriculum meets accreditation requirements. the Akwesasne Mohawk community, unique for having Nation, won Osler’s
Canada’s first court established by and for Indigenous Diversity Scholarship
Peoples. Last October, 40 Queen’s Law community members and the Indigenous
day-tripped two hours east for a third annual visit that Bar Association’s
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involved sessions on traditional Indigenous dispute scholarship for
resolution, a Mohawk law case study, and a community serving and
justice panel Q&A. advancing his
“We came away knowing a lot more about Indigenous law people’s interests
and justice,” says Dean Mark Walters, “but also about how with honour and integrity. He has been Whitesand’s Topping the list of students and new grads selected to clerk with
justices of Canadian courts are three heading to the Supreme
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the non-Indigenous justice system works. What we learned delegate to child welfare discussions, commissioner of a
should trouble and motivate us.” provincial inquiry into Sexual Violence and Harassment in Court in 2021-22: Siobhan Morris, Law’19, Don Couturier, Law’20,
Last July, Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment and Support First Nations Communities, and an advisor to then-Premier and Jocelyn Rempel, Law’20.
Coordinator, arranged a campus visit for 50 eager Akwesasne Kathleen Wynne’s landmark revamp of Ontario’s child
Assistant Dean Phillip Drew high schoolers. Scott Stewart, Law’21, one of their tour guides, welfare legislation.
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FEATURE
Coping with
the COVID crisis
Through resilience, initiative, innovation and that legendary
collegiality, the Queen’s Law community continues rising to the challenges
of a global crisis unprecedented in our lifetimes
BY LISA GRAHAM
A
s the novel Coronavirus bounded across oceans into Canada, federal and provincial
governments quickly declared states of emergency. Queen’s and other academic institutions
cancelled in-person classes and closed their doors, following best practices to safeguard
public health and to plan for possible long-term ramifications. The following pages are an account By March 16, new Associate Dean (Academic Policy) Art Cockfield, Law’93, had already prepared his Remote Teaching Plan (part of Law’s
Covid-19 Educational Response) and presented it to all fellow instructors, whether in person (above) or on-line via chosen platform Zoom.
of how COVID-infused developments continue to unfold here, seen through the lens of law school
members. There are clear signs that what Albert Einstein said is true: “In the midst of every crisis
lies great opportunity.” The law school had a strong foundation for this pivot, Faculty ‘zoom’ into remote classes
having begun three years earlier to explore how blended
learning and new technologies could more fully engage “Like many professors, I had to learn these technologies
Educational innovation pushed by a pandemic on the fly for my own classes,” reflects Cockfield. “We
future legal professionals. Since then, support teams highly
“We are entering uncharted territory,” wrote Dean Mark tell you how appreciative I am of our faculty members skilled in educational innovation, online learning and IT considered a lot of different approaches, but ultimately
Walters, Law’89, in a March 14 email to students, one day and sessional instructors working very hard to meet the have been hired, including Assistant Dean Laura Kinderman Zoom was the best technology for most faculty.”
after announcing the Faculty would be delivering the last challenges of the Coronavirus crisis. Their dedication to who oversees education innovation and online programs. Professor Nick Bala, Law’77, once trained, also
three weeks of JD and graduate classes remotely. “I can’t our students is truly impressive.” “We’re in a unique position,” Walters assured students; transitioned quickly to teaching online. On the first day of
“We already have online programs and teams in place with remote classes, he delivered his Family Law lecture to 72
expertise and knowledge.” students, and “liked Zoom’s interactive nature.” He used it r
Walters and his senior administrators prepared a
COVID-19 Education Response Plan, detailing resources for
instructors replacing face-to-face teaching with real-time
classes using Zoom, a remote conferencing platform;
augmenting PowerPoint slides with voiceover audio; and
enabling class discussions or individual chats using OnQ ,
the university’s learning management system.
To put that new teaching into action, newly appointed
Associate Dean (Academic Policy) Art Cockfield, Law’93,
presented a Remote Teaching Plan on March 16 to a few
faculty members in person and to others via Zoom. He
spoke about communicating and managing expectations
and how to get technology and teaching support. Shaun
Leung, IT Support Assistant, demonstrated the resources
available.
That same day, the World Health Organization’s Director-
General called COVID-19 “the defining global health crisis
of our time.” On March 17, Ontario declared a state of
emergency, followed by B.C. and Alberta. Only “essential”
staff, such as those in IT, were still working in the Queen’s
Law building by week’s end. Others began working from On March 13, Professor Nick Bala, Law’77, tried remote teaching with
Dean Mark Walters, Law’89, receives an explanation about an online platform from IT staffer Emmanuel Mendez as the Faculty transitions to home, as faculty already were. Continuing to provide students Zoom conferencing software, supported by IT staff member Theresa
remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing would soon come into effect on campus. with the best legal education possible was paramount. Afolayan. Zach Rudge was among the students online.
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next for his Contracts class of 38. “Students in this smaller Law’s collegiality trumps COVID at end
class were more willing to use mics,” he says, “so we were
“We should all be proud to be
able to do some ‘Socratic teaching,’ but those in the larger of term: students’ perspective
class preferred typing questions into Zoom’s chat box.”
at a school where, in a time of great crisis,
Although COVID-19 challenges university students
Bala taught that first Zoom class from his campus office everywhere, Queen’s Law students made an important the impulse of everyone has been
with an IT person ready to assist, but not needed. “After discovery: not even a pandemic can break the bonds within
that,” he says, “I knew I could do it from anywhere. When their close-knit community. to look out for those around them.”
we can’t be with students in person, being with them in Newly elected LSS President Ross Denny-Jiles,
real time is the next best thing.” Law’22, heard about class cancellations during his first — Ross Denny-Jiles, Law’22, LSS President, 2020-21
Other faculty members had been using Zoom before Faculty Board meeting on March 13. “Though we had all
the emergency – many of Bala’s younger colleagues been speculating about Queen’s official response, that’s
doing it instinctively. One of those, Professor Nicolas when it really sank in that the remaining term might be Dean and his senior team – Associate Deans Art Cockfield
Lamp, finds online classes are also “rewarding social IT staff member Shaun Leung (foreground) tests the Zoom platform very different from what we’d expected,” he says. and Joshua Karton, Assistant Deans Phillip Drew and Laura
experiences because they let isolated students see online with Professor Alyssa King, who launched a “COVID and the Outgoing LSS President Colette Koopman, Law’20, Kinderman, and Executive Director Deanna Morash. From
and talk to their peers.” Courts” web page on the Conflict Analytics website to track and was in a meeting of Law’s Strategic Planning Committee, the pandemic’s onset, they were all willing to hear student
archive all the different COVID-related changes to court and helping draft a framework for the school’s next four years. concerns, Koopman says. “We used video calls to work
alternative dispute resolution procedures in each Canadian Shailaja Nadarajah, Law’21, recalls Professor Lisa Kelly out issues together, they shared their reasoning behind
province and territory. joking at the end of her last in-person Evidence class on March decisions and always kept students updated.” Denny-Jiles
“Our basic goal is to have
11 that the next time they saw her might be on Zoom. “We echoes that appreciation of the strategy team’s concern for
students graduate on time.” Holding town hall from home laughed then,” she says, but students’ lives changed suddenly, students, but also applauds fellow students for earnestly
making them the first cohort to learn via remote teaching. and quickly supporting the Faculty’s crisis response.
— Dean Mark Walters Koopman, who’d never taken an online course, applauds Throughout the unprecedented final seven weeks of
her teachers’ “excellent job in engaging with students and term, what stood out, Koopman adds, was the “collegiality,
continuously refining their techniques, some using Zoom care and thoughtfulness of the Law community. People
Dean uses open forum to describe breakout rooms successfully to simulate discussion groups.” made time to check on one another and make sure they
For Nadarajah, working with the Queen’s Family Law were all updated.” Denny-Jiles observes that “when
decision-making to students Clinic gave her a sense of normalcy. “We weren’t able to be isolating, it would be understandable if you kept your head
With COVID’s implications for class work, exams, grades, in the clinic,” she explains, “but the staff worked tirelessly down and just got yourself through this critical semester,
and deadlines troubling JD students, Dean Walters, to ensure we were supported, whether through remote but I have been struck by the level of compassion and
Associate Dean Cockfield and Assistant Dean Phillip supervision meetings, phone calls with review counsel, concern displayed in our community. Whether it’s students
Drew (Law’00, LLM’12) hosted virtual town halls via or getting files scanned.” advocating for peers in complicated home situations or
Zoom on March 26, answering students’ questions and The next new experience was completing final exams professors working steadily to improve interactions with
explaining how they’d ensure minimal impact on grades remotely. “Not being surrounded by other students remote classes, everyone has shown concern for each
and prospects. alleviated some pre-exam nerves,” Koopman admits, other’s well-being.
“This is unprecedented for us all, so some difficult “but downloading the exam brought them all back.” “We should all be proud to be at a school where, in a
decisions must be made, and quickly,” said Walters. As the outgoing and incoming LSS presidents, Koopman time of great crisis, the impulse of everyone has been to
“Our basic goal is to get you through the academic year and Denny-Jiles worked during the early crisis with the look out for those around them.” r
successfully. For you third-years, it’s to have you graduate
on time and get started on your career.”
Cockfield, noting his keen awareness of “some students
struggling with disadvantages,” assured them of the
optional pass/fail grading system’s fairness and flexibility.
Two “fail safe” options he explained to them for final
grades were to convert a D (or higher) to P (pass) or
drop a course.
When asked how employers would now view Queen’s
Law transcripts, Drew explained that a variety of
stakeholders had been consulted, including Law Students’
Society (LSS) reps, faculty, and senior Canadian and
international law professionals. “They concluded this
grading system is the best for our students,” he said. “A ‘P’
on a Queen’s transcript will tell prospective employers At two virtual town halls via the Zoom meeting platform, Dean Mark
that something in the student’s life at this extraordinary Walters, Associate Dean Art Cockfield and Assistant Dean Phillip
time has had a negative effect on that student’s ability to Drew explain the school’s pandemic planning decisions and address Colette Koopman, Law’20, Shailaja Nadarajah, Law’21, and Ross Denny-Jiles, Law’22, share their experiences during an extraordinary final
perform to his or her full potential.” student concerns about class work, exams, grades and deadlines. seven weeks of term, when what stood out was the “collegiality, care and thoughtfulness of the Queen’s Law community.”
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continued via Zoom, and clinic lawyers started supervising
student caseworkers by phone and email. Most staff
transferred quickly to working from home. As Executive
Director Karla McGrath, LLM’13, put it, “Like everyone,
we are all learning lots of new ways of doing old things.”
Courts, tribunals and community partners were similarly
affected by the state of emergency.
“Collaborating with our colleagues locally, provincially,
nationally and internationally, we are assessing and
addressing the particular challenges that face many of our
clients during this extraordinary time,” says McGrath.
“While the country is told to stay home and use electronic
communication, we must decide how best to serve clients
who may have limited pay-as-you-go phone plans, no
access to the internet and sometimes even no home.”
Directors and lawyers of the five clinics continued
serving clients remotely in April, while planning for their
summer student workforce. “We are learning new ways Working from his Kingston-area home, Paul Quick, Law’09, staff
to teach students not only how to do the job, but also how lawyer with the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic, was instrumental in
The International Business Law and Public International Law programs, long held annually at Queen’s BISC (The Castle), were delivered online to do the work while remote from each other, from us and setting a pandemic precedent for at-risk inmates.
this spring. Among other timely topics, students studied the international legal response to the pandemic in real time. from their clients.”
Learning international law lectures via Zoom with speakers the students would From closed clinic door to Looking back (to jobs well done);
at Queen’s e-Castle normally meet during Castle field trips,” says Lamp. “We also knocking on prison gates Moving forward (to fall promises)
have career panels providing students with networking
The Coronavirus closed the Castle, but when law students opportunities and career advice. Online, we can access a When the Coronavirus crisis closed Queen’s doors and With Ontario daring to start opening doors in mid-May,
couldn’t go to Queen’s U.K. campus this spring, the castle broad range of alumni around the world.” instituted work-from-home in mid-March, few might have though none on schools or universities, Queen’s Law
experience came to them. The unique International Law The pandemic poses extraordinary challenges not only for imagined the Prison Law Clinic’s staff and students jumping students received a kind of report card from their Dean. It
Programs, a sought-after spring-term staple at the Bader national governments, but also for international institutions. into a new crusade. One of only two dedicated prison thanked them for their response to the pandemic “so far”
International Study Centre (BISC) for 19 years, was delivered One global health law expert lectured on the role of WHO, clinics in Canada, it has a sterling reputation for front-line and promised that whether they saw their professors and
to 65 students online in May and June. one such institution, during a pandemic – “very timely,” says legal services to Eastern Ontario’s federal prisoners. classmates in person or on-screen it would be “an exciting
“They got the same academic experience that they would Lamp, “for our programs to be teaching students the Now, with a highly infectious disease putting Canada in new academic year . . . in a very distinctive form.”
at the BISC,” says Professor Nicolas Lamp, Academic Director international legal response to the pandemic in real time.” emergency lock-down, it was fielding desperate calls from Dated May 20, Mark Walters’ email thanked school
of the International Law Programs. “We offer the same medically vulnerable inmates and their families. members for their “resilient and creative” response when
courses with the same instructors – except through Zoom.” Around the world, categories of inmates were being COVID-19 struck. “The fall term will look and feel different
Those instructors are leading academics and practitioners in
COVID closes clinics but services continue released to protect both prisoners and staff. In Canada, with from normal,” he continued, noting plans for some in-person
international business law and public international law. In the week of March 16, the door to the Queen’s Law 170 prisoners, plus staff, COVID-positive by mid-April, the learning if provincial regulations permit, “but I am confident
“To emulate the field trip experience, we’ve had guest Clinics was closed to clients and then to students. Courses federal Correctional Service had done nothing to reduce the that, in the end, the defining features of Queen’s Law – its
population of its overcrowded prisons. unique sense of community and the dedicated commitment
Among cases where pre-existing conditions would make to creating a rigorous and exciting learning and research
COVID-19 a death sentence, Derek Snow’s topped the environment – will shape the experience. For all.”
virtual pile on the desk of clinic lawyer Paul Quick, Law’09. At an earlier strategy team meeting, Associate Dean Art
Snow, 53, had a long but non-violent record; also, cancer, Cockfield, calling the school’s staff “professional and
diabetes and COPD, a July 2020 release date, and a sister capable,” had given credit “for everybody pulling together
offering self-isolation space. Quick engaged persistently in the crisis and for faculty successfully shifting to remote
with Bath Institution, but no decision came. teaching in a week’s time” to Walters’ own “exemplary
Prison lawyers across the country had been watching, leadership and work ethic.” QLR
offering ideas and resources, and soon human rights veteran
Paul Champ partnered with the clinic. Champ, despite Check out pg. 44 to see how three alumni stepped up
working from home, filed a 400-plus-page record for an to help some of the people most at risk amid the
emergency April 17 hearing. The night before the hearing, Coronavirus crisis.
Bath agreed to release Derek Snow to self-isolate at home.
It was more than personal. A pandemic precedent had Watch your inbox for the July 2020 issue of Queen’s
been set, and lawyers and medically vulnerable prisoners Law Reports Online for more up-to-date coverage of
across the country have been relying on it ever since. Queen’s Law community members responding to
COVID’s challenges.
Students in the Clinical Family Law seminar participated in their last classes via Zoom with their teacher, Queen’s Law Clinics Executive
Director Karla McGrath, LLM’13 (top row, 2nd left).
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FACULTY NEWS
Law’s research footprint continues to grow Management Board Chair of the
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
Associations, Secured Transactions,
Mergers & Acquisitions, and a new
looking forward to her sabbatical in 2020-
21 to advance her research projects with
as professors mark new career highlights Lynne Hanson teaches Health Law,
Mental Health Law, Torts, and Advanced
Torts. Her current research interests focus
seminar course called Shareholder
Activism. He is also working on a
quantitative study of settlement
Canadian and American collaborators.
Bruce Pardy has written and presented
on some frontline battles in the “civil war”
agreements entered into between
on the accessibility of medical assistance ongoing inside Canadian law, including
activist investors and issuers.
in dying (MAiD) for those with mental the Law Society of Ontario’s statement of
illness and on Ontario’s new legislation Alyssa King’s presentation on general principles, free speech at universities,
that limits access to the courts for strategic principles in international arbitration and social justice dogma in law schools, and
lawsuits against public participation. comparative law at Sciences Po (Paris) “indigenization” of the law.
will be published in Ius Comparatum, and
Gail Henderson spent part of her Patricia Peppin delivered a paper on
her Telus v Wellman case note appeared
sabbatical at Momentum in Calgary, conscientious objection to effective
in the inaugural Canadian Journal of
examining how law can further a referral for health care at the Feminist
Commercial Arbitration. She also
community’s economic development, Legal Studies at Queen’s 2020 conference
addressed harmonization in civil
and four weeks in Iqaluit, teaching and presented three papers at conferences
procedure regimes at McGill, Fordham
Business Organizations in the University in Rome and Washington last summer.
and University of Texas law schools.
of Saskatchewan’s Nunavut Law Program. Her chapter on vaccines was published
That program graduates students with U of Erik Knutsen, Associate Dean (Academic), in Public Health Law and Policy in Canada
S law degrees, aiming to increase Nunavut’s co-authored three publications: the (4th ed.).
GREG BLACK
number of Inuit and local lawyers. 4th edition of his American casebook
Michael Pratt published a paper in
Principles of Insurance Law; an article
Ardi Imseis was appointed by the United the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies on
about automobile insurance in the
Nations High Commissioner for Human counterfactual reasoning in the law of
Connecticut Insurance Law Journal; and
LAW CONVOCATION, SPRING 2019 – Faculty and guests who participated in laureating the Class of ’19: then-Dean Bill Flanagan, LLD Rights in December 2019 to the Group damages. He also began a book project.
an update of his co-authored American
honoree Fiona Sampson (Law’93), Professors Jacob Weinrib and Lisa Kerr, then-QBLC Director Morgan Jarvis (Law’10), Professors Cherie Metcalf of Eminent International and Regional He is writing a treatise on the law
treatise Stempel & Knutsen on Insurance
and Mohamed Khimji, Justice David Stratas (Law’84, LLD’12), Professor Nick Bala, Queen’s Law Clinics Executive Director Karla McGrath (LLM’13), Experts on Yemen, a three-person governing remedies and other forms
Coverage.
Professors Sabine Tsuruda, Grégoire Webber, Noah Weisbord, Sharry Aiken, Alyssa King, Erik Knutsen, Patti Peppin and Lynne Hanson. commission of inquiry mandated to of relief in real estate transactions.
investigate war crimes during the armed Kathleen Lahey, Co-Director of FLSQ,
Sharry Aiken, Academic Director of the research on gender and proportionality Samuel Dahan, Executive Director of the Darryl Robinson gathered with scholars
conflict in Yemen. still works via UN alliances on ways
Faculty’s new online Graduate Diploma in at the University of Sydney School of Law Conflict Analytics Lab (CAL), received a from across North America in Philadelphia
governments can end austerity politics
Immigration and Citizenship Law, has been and Queen’s FLSQ Conference. $244,562 SSHRC grant for the project Joshua Karton, Associate Dean to discuss his forthcoming book, Justice
and increase core tax revenues to fund
busy developing the program. She also “AI-Tribunal for Small Claims: Building an (Graduate Studies and Research), in Extreme Cases. He also attended a
Nick Bala continues to do research on poverty eradication, end economic
finalized the third edition of her co-edited Intelligent Dispute Resolution System.” published on such topics as comparative California workshop that fashioned new
family law issues, including parental discrimination against vulnerable groups,
casebook on immigration law and was CAL has already unveiled two free and law methods in cross-border practice, responses to environmental crimes. His
alienation, parenting plans and access address biosphere threats, and strengthen
guest editor for a forthcoming Citizenship simple-to-use web applications that will arbitrator diversity, fragmentation of major publications included the Oxford
to family justice. He is also giving remote health systems to cope with mass
Studies issue on abolishing detention. provide Canadian workers with a greater international commercial law, and Handbook of International Criminal Law
presentations to judges and lawyers challenges like pandemics. Her research
understanding of their employment rights. consumer protection; gave presentations (co-editor) and a new co-authored
Bita Amani, Co-Director of Feminist Legal on such topics in the coming months. into Canada’s taxes and benefits appears
on four continents; and was appointed edition of Introduction to International
Studies Queen’s (FLSQ), co-organized Although 68, he is looking forward to Benjamin Ewing published the article in Unfinished Business (CCPA 2020).
General Editor of Kluwer Arbitration Criminal Law.
the conference “Gender, Equalities, teaching Contracts and Family Law again “Prior Convictions as Moral Opportunities” Practical Insights, a new online service Nicolas Lamp published a paper on the
Knowledges, Lands and Sustain/abilities: next year, and over the summer will be in the American Journal of Criminal Law Don Stuart, retired since 2018, still teaches
for international arbitration practitioners. U.S.-China Trade War in the Journal of
Truths vs. ‘Climate Adaptations’ for all working on new editions of casebooks and a book chapter, “Mitigating Factors: one course a year, still keeps his office
International Economic Law. His study of
Forms of Life.” Her current projects in these two areas. A Typology,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Lisa Kelly is leading a SSHRC-funded door open, and continues as editor-
globalization’s winners and losers has
involve trade secret appropriation and the Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law, research project entitled “Police Powers contributor for Criminal Reports and the
Kevin Banks, Director of Queen’s Centre produced both a forthcoming paper in
constitutionality of “the immoral marks edited by Larry Alexander and Kimberly in Canada’s Schools.” She will present judges’ eletter Criminal Essentials. He
for Law in the Contemporary Workplace European Journal of International Law and
prohibition” under the Trademarks Act. Kessler Ferzan. early findings from this work at the published Learning Canadian Criminal
and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian a co-authored book (Harvard). His blog
Law and Society Association’s annual Procedures (13th ed., with Tom Quigley)
Martha Bailey published research on Labour and Employment Law Journal, is David Freedman presented research on posts led to major media interest in his
meeting, which will be held virtually and is working on Canadian Criminal Law:
Beaver v Hill and cross-border family writing papers on legal responsibility for the law of estates and trusts at a number views of U.S. trade policies.
in June. A Treatise (7th ed.).
law disputes and last winter taught unpaid wages in supply chains, the right of conferences over the past year, Mary-Jo Maur, former co-chair, LSO
International Family Law at Otago to strike a common law (with Sabine including one for the judges of the Lisa Kerr published articles in U of T Law Jean Thomas continues as co-convener
Family Law Summit, published papers on
University, N.Z. Her play about legal issues Tsuruda), and implications of the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Journal, Supreme Court Law Review and of Queen’s Colloquium in Legal and
family law procedure. Besides teaching
relating to brain death, presented at Guatemala - Labour Issues decision for Court and Court of Appeal. He will be Criminal Reports; a book chapter in Political Philosophy and co-organizer of
law students Torts, Family Law, and
Kingston’s 2019 Fringe Festival, will be international trade agreements. returning to St. John’s to present on Sentencing Law and Policy; and op-eds in the Law and Philosophy Workshop. Her
Alternative Dispute Resolution, she
remounted at the city’s Compassionate similar subjects for lawyers. The Globe & Mail and Ottawa Citizen. She article on rights theory is forthcoming in
Art Cockfield was appointed Associate continues to innovate with blended
Communities’ Advance Care Planning Day. also addressed National Judicial Institute Jurisprudence, and she presented on the
Dean (Academic Policy) in March. He has Leslie Green wrote “Escapable Law” for learning for her undergraduates’
conferences on Charter litigation and social normativity of law at Oxford.
Beverley Baines published, with Dr. published a co-authored book on Taxing the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Introduction to Canadian Law course.
Federal Court practice and is researching
Jenna Sapiano, “Feminist Curiosity about Global Digital Commerce (Wolters Kluwer), contributed “Hume on Authority and Sabine Tsuruda, named 2019’s “New
the sentencing of racialized defendants Cherie Metcalf presented her research at
International Constitutional Law and plus related articles and book chapters. Opinion” to Essays in Honour of David Voice in Legal Philosophy,” presented her
with support from a SSHRC grant. conferences and law schools in Canada
Global Constitutionalism” in the Journal He also helped plan conferences with Miller (Oxford 2019), and co-edited the paper “Working as Equal Moral Agents”
and the U.S., published an empirical
of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Stanford University, the University of book series Oxford Legal Philosophy. Mohamed Khimji, the David Allgood at the Analytical Legal Philosophy
article on property rights, has several
(2019) and presented her SSHRC-funded Waterloo and Royal Military College. He is a Trustee of Balliol College and Professor in Business Law, taught Business Conference. She also presented at r
additional articles in submission, and is
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