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Professors Bethany Hastie, Cherie Metcalf, Ivan Ozai, and Darryl Robinson have received national funding for their research projects examining labour rights and access to justice, public trust in courts, tax avoidance, and accountability for environmental harm, respectively.

Four faculty funded to advance research on urgent legal challenges

Professors Bethany Hastie, Cherie Metcalf, Ivan Ozai, and Darryl Robinson are examining labour rights and access to justice, public trust in courts, tax avoidance, and accountability for environmental harm, respectively.

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Winners of the 2026 Queen’s Law alumni awards – Donald Bayne, Law’69, LLD’17, Brandon Chung, Law’17, Justice Lucille Shaw, Law’89, Judy Goldring, Law’91, and Kelley McKinnon, Law’88 – will receive their trophies at Celebrate Queen’s Law in Toronto on May 27.

Congratulations to our 2026 alumni award winners!

A foremost criminal litigator, a young appellate advocate, an access-to-justice and legal education champion, a financial sector CEO, and a trusted institutional leader with deep ties to Queen’s Law will receive their trophies at the annual Queen’s Law alumni reception in Toronto.

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Firoz Ahmed, Law’84, a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto, has built a career advising on complex corporate transactions in Canada and internationally.

A leading tax lawyer brings clarity to complex deals

From Bay Street’s biggest deals to trusted client advice, Firoz Ahmed, Law’84, reflects on a career shaping multifaceted tax and business decisions, and shares advice for new lawyers.

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Queen’s Law is hosting Reflective Practice for Legal Professionals, a virtual international symposium running June 22–24, 2026, bringing together more than 75 legal scholars, educators, regulators, and practitioners focused on reflective practice as a core professional competency.

Symposium to spotlight an idea whose time has come

Queen’s Law is hosting a three-day virtual symposium examining reflective practice as a core competency for legal professionals.

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Top: Mevini Kavisinghe, Law’28, is working with Professor Cherie Metcalf on a research project using machine learning and large language models to study how private lawsuits are used to enforce public regulation in Canada. Bottom: Sierra Wild, Law’27, is partnering with international trade scholar Professor Nicolas Lamp on research into “managed trade,” with plans to develop the work into a peer‑reviewed academic article.

JD students to gain research experience through summer fellowships

Mevini Kavisinghe will work with Professor Cherie Metcalf on AI-driven analysis of private enforcement, while Sierra Wild joins Professor Nicolas Lamp to study managed trade.

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The Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace is hosting “Technology, Labour and Industry 5.0: What Kind of Future(s) for Work and its Legal Regulation?”, a conference in Toronto on May 28 and 29, 2026. The event features a keynote lecture on “The Quantified Worker” by Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa, Founding Director of the AI and the Future of Work program at Emory Law School.

Conference investigates law in the fast-changing world of work

As human and machine intelligence increasingly converge, a Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace conference explores what the future of work means for labour law, legal regulation, and law reform.

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Greg Piasetzki, Law’80, founding partner of Piasetzki Nenniger Kvas LLP (PNK Law) in Toronto, is supporting the future of experiential learning at Queen’s through a $250,000 gift to the Queen’s Business Law Clinic, made with his wife, Laura.

Law’80 IP expert invests in business law clinic

A $250K gift from Greg Piasetzki, Law’80, and his wife, Laura, is opening the door to more hands‑on business law training — and stronger community support.

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AI is changing law — professionals need to be ready

Queen’s Law’s popular AI and Law Professional Intensive returns June 1–5, 2026, offering practical, expert‑led insights into AI governance, regulation, and risk.

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Podcast: Suing City Hall: Class Actions as Private Enforcement of Local Governments

Using data from Israel, this study examines the scope and effectiveness of class actions filed against local governments.

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Professors Bethany Hastie and Alyssa King are Queen’s Law’s 2026–27 Research Excellence Scholars, supporting their research on workplace technology law and offshore legal zones, respectively.

Research Excellence Scholars explore workplace technology policy, rule of law

With support from Queen’s Law, Professors Bethany Hastie and Alyssa King are advancing new research on workplace technology law and offshore legal regimes.

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Professor Nicolas Lamp (centre), editor of Reckoning and Renewal, speaks about prospects for renewing the World Trade Organization during a book launch hosted by the Canadian Mission to the WTO at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

A milestone look at the WTO’s future

A new open‑access volume edited by Professor Nicolas Lamp marks the organization’s 30th anniversary and brings together global experts to assess its past, present, and prospects for renewal.

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Podcast: Visiting Speaker Joshua Sealy-Harrington

This paper wrestles with the contradiction of legal objectivity/subjectivity using the case study of the bias complaint against Justice Spiro for his interference in the hiring of a scholar at the University of Toronto who applied international law to Israel.

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