October 2009

Calgary Alumni Reception, November 11, 5:30pm-7:30pm

Join Dean Flanagan and reconnect with fellow alumni at Bennett Jones LLP, 4500 2 St. S.W. Contact Dianne Butler for further information.

Spring Reunion Weekend, May 28-30, 2010

Alumni from Law ‘65, ‘85, ‘90, ‘95, ‘00 and ‘05 will be celebrating reunions in Kingston next spring. Join us for Faculty-organized events on May 29 including a tour of Macdonald Hall at 10:00am and a cocktail party hosted by Dean Flanagan at the University Club at 5:00pm. Contact Dianne Butler for further information.

Michel Picher, Law ‘72, receives national labour law award

Prominent labour arbitrator Michel Picher, Law ‘72, received the 2009 Bora Laskin Award for his outstanding contributions to Canadian labour law on October 21. Read more...

Two Law ‘84 classmates win university’s highest alumni awards

The Queen’s University Alumni Association honoured Linda Locke and David Stratas at a gala campus dinner on October 24 for their extraordinary achievements.  Read more..

Alumna Daphne Dumont receives Governor General’s Award*

Daphne Dumont, Q.C., Artsci ‘74, an alumna who completed her Canadian legal training at Queen’s in 1977, received a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case on October 1. Read more...

Supreme Court justice returns to alma mater

Justice Thomas Cromwell, Mus ‘73, Law ‘76, spoke to a capacity crowd of students, faculty, alumni and friends and answered questions about serving on Canada’s top court at Queen’s on September 30. Read more...

Mary-Jo Maur, Law ‘85, LLM ‘93, dedicates family law casebook to Professor Bala

Queen’s sessional instructor Mary-Jo Maur co-authored Family Law: Cases, Notes and Materials (7th ed.) with Western Law professor Berend Hovius, a book she dedicated to her mentor and friend Professor Nicholas Bala, Law ‘77. Read about the book...

Professor Nicholas Bala receives Law Society’s highest honour

Professor Nicholas Bala, Law ‘77, received the Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Upper Canada during a special ceremony at Osgoode Hall on September 23. Read more...

Queen’s Business Law Clinic is in the spotlight

The Kingston Whig-Standard, CKWS-TV and CBC Radio interviewed Professor Peter Kissick, Law ‘ 88, LLM ‘ 98, about our new clinic in the week of October 13th. Read the Whig-Standard story “Business is booming for clinic”...

School founder turns 80

Retired and current faculty and staff members and friends celebrated Professor Emeritus Dan Soberman’s 80th birthday at the University Club on October 20. Read more...

Have you recently been married, become a parent, relocated, been promoted or begun serving an appointment? Your classmates want to know! Send your news and pictures to Dianne Butler for publication in Queen’s Law Reports 2010.

* Photo: © Office of the Secretary to the Governor General of Canada 2009
Photo credit: Sgt Serge Gouin, October 1, 2009
Reproduced with the permission of the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General