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Professors Lisa Kerr and Erik Knutsen accept their 2026 Stanley M. Corbett Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Honouring this year’s excellent teachers

Professors Lisa Kerr and Erik Knutsen are the 2026 recipients of the Stanley M. Corbett Awards for Teaching Excellence.

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Professor Kevin Banks shares his reflections on Ontario’s Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act during the panel “Regulating the Platform Economy: Reflections on Ontario's Digital Platform Workers' Rights Act” at the Technology, Labour and Industry 5.0 conference. Fellow panellists included Raoul Gebert (Université de Sherbrooke), Laura Dehaibi (Laval University), and Paul Christopher Gray (Brock University). (Photo by Eric Forget)

Conference explores how law must adapt in the fast‑changing world of work

Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace brings international experts together to examine how labour law is responding — and struggling to respond — to rapid technological change.

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Professor Jinyan Li, LLM’87, lead organizer of the Tax Symposium, speaks about her research collaborator and friend Art Cockfield during the dinner that followed the first day of the two-day event.

Honouring Art Cockfield’s enduring legacy in tax law and education

A memorial symposium, student award, and tributes from former students, colleagues, and collaborators highlight the enduring impact of Professor Art Cockfield, Law’93.

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Professors Lisa Kerr and Kimberly Murray have received SSHRC Insight Grant funding for research addressing two critical issues in Canada: access to justice for incarcerated individuals and the preservation of Indian Residential School Survivors’ records.

SSHRC funds Kerr and Murray to advance justice, accountability, and reconciliation

Professor Lisa Kerr’s new research examines Ontario's inmate appeal program, while Professor Kimberly Murray is part of a national initiative to preserve Indian Residential School Survivors’ records and protect vital evidence.

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Dahan awarded NSERC funding to develop trustworthy AI for courts

Professor Samuel Dahan has received nearly $500,000 to lead a global initiative developing transparent, open-source AI to help courts deliver more consistent and reliable decisions.

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Pioneering legal scholar and educator awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degree

Mary Jane Mossman, Law’70, who was the only woman in her graduating class, returns to Queen’s to receive an honorary doctorate recognizing her distinguished career as a legal scholar, educator, and author.

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Clerkships offer this young alumnus ‘an opportunity of a lifetime’

Over the next two years, Dante Fasulo, Law’25, will clerk at both the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Preston Lim and Stanley U. Nweke‑Eze join Queen’s Law as assistant professors, contributing expertise across key areas of international economic law, with research spanning China’s role in the world economy and trade, investment, and development, including Global South perspectives.

Deepening global perspectives in international economic law at Queen’s

Newly appointed professors Preston Lim and Stanley U. Nweke‑Eze bring expertise across key areas of international economic law, with research spanning China’s role in the world economy and trade, investment, and development, including Global South perspectives.

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AI governance expert Maroussia Lévesque joins Queen’s Law as an assistant professor, bringing interdisciplinary experience across academic, policy, and public-facing work.

New professor probes AI’s power dynamics

Maroussia Lévesque brings global policy experience and a sharp focus on AI governance and accountability to Queen’s Law.

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From left: Kevin Banks (promoted to full professor), Lindsay Borrows (appointment renewed), and Debra Haak (promoted to associate professor), effective July 1.

Professors Banks, Borrows, and Haak recognized with promotions, renewal

Effective July 1, Kevin Banks will be promoted to full professor, Lindsay Borrows’ appointment renewed, and Debra Haak promoted to associate professor.

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Meeting the demands of a changing tax landscape

As tax law grows more complex under global and regulatory pressures, Queen’s Law is planning for an endowed professorship to strengthen research, inform policy, and prepare the next generation of tax lawyers — helping shape a fair and effective tax system.

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Recipients of the 2026 Queen’s Law alumni awards: Brandon Chung, Law’17; Kelley McKinnon, Law’88; Judy Goldring, Law’91; Justice Lucille Shaw, Law’89; and Donald Bayne, Law’69. (Photo by Michael Tenaglia)

Queen’s Law alumni celebrate in Toronto

Graduates reconnected at the annual reception to honour the 2026 alumni award recipients and mark the school’s recent achievements.

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