Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace

In November 2010, Queen's Law launched the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW).  The first of its kind in Canada, the Centre will provide an intellectual home for the Canadian labour and employment law community.

The Centre will train the next generation of leading labour and employment law practitioners, teachers and scholars, lead research into emerging trends and problems in workplace-related law, and actively exchange knowledge with labour and employment law stakeholders.  The Centre's focal activities will include research, curriculum development, teaching, dialogue and outreach on the role of the law in the contemporary workplace. 

News

April 2012 Conference   Shades of Grey: Law and Aging in the Contemporary Workplace   Friday, April 27th, 2012 Reception with Keynote Speaker; the Honourable Mr. Justice Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada   Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Full Day Conference

The Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law Webinar with Wanjiru Njoya:

On Friday, November 25th, the Centre hosted the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP distinguished Lecture in Business Law webinar with Wanjiru Njoya, Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics. Her webinar titled Workers on the Board of Director: Prospects for Codetermination in European Law can be viewed in the link provided below.   View the Webinar: https://qshare.queensu.ca/Groups/law/www/osler2011Njoya.html

Wanjiru Njoya is a Lecturer in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. She is also a Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University. Dr. Njoya was previously CUF Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. Before that, she was a tutorial fellow at St John's College, Oxford and a university lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Dr. Njoya obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge (St Edmund's College). Her main research interest is in employee participation in corporate governance, on which she has published a number of articles in various journals and the book Property in Work: The Employment Relationship in the Anglo-American Firm (Ashgate, 2007). Dr. Njoya teaches Company Law, Administrative Law and Constitutional Law.

 

CLCW Co-Chair Wins Ryan Alumni Award

Photo by Teddy Melvin Hugh Christie, Law ’81, receives the 2011 H.R.S. Ryan Alumni Award from Dean’s Council Chair David Allgood, Law ’74, on May 4 in Toronto.

Hugh Christie, Law ‘81 (Artsci ‘78), has received the 2011 H.R.S. Ryan Alumni Award for his significant contributions to the Law Faculty, University and legal profession. The award, presented at the annual law alumni celebration in Toronto on May 4, honours the late Professor Stuart Ryan.   “This is a remarkably flattering award to receive,” Christie said, “all the more so because it is associated with Stuart Ryan, who was such a wonderful person. I thank Queen’s University and Queen’s Law on behalf of all of us who were given the legal skills that we have and, perhaps even more importantly, for our sense of public service and collegiality. I remember Professor Ryan encouraging our class to do work that was important, and not merely remunerative. This award speaks to those priorities.”    Full Story

 

 

The CLCW is funded in part by a grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario