Research Awards

Excellence in research and scholarship by members of the law faculty at Queen’s is reflected by the awards, fellowships and honours they have received.Recent examples include:

In 2007, Martha Bailey was a Visiting Scholar in the Feminist Legal Theory Program at Emory Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, and an International Research Visitor at the Faculty of Law, Melbourne University, Australia.

In 2007, Professor Don Stuart was awarded the prestigious David Walter Mundell Medal by the Ontario Bar Association for his outstanding contribution to legal writing in the criminal law field.

In 2006, Professor Cherie Metcalf received a Fulbright Award to pursue graduate work in law at Yale University in the area of indigenous rights and resource and environmental regulation.

In 2006, Professor Paul Paton was appointed to the Canadian Bar Association National Ethics and Professional Issues Committee, the only law professor to be so honoured.

In 2006, Professor Mark Walters was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Prize for Academic Excellence.

In 2006, Professor Nicholas Bala won the Queen’s University Prize for Excellence in Research for his work in children and family law.Professor Bala was also awarded the Meyer-Elkin Award from the Association of Family and Conciliatory Courts for his paper on mental health cases in family law courts.

In 2006, Professor Martha Bailey was awarded a Shastra Fellowship at NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, India.

In 2006, Professor Emeritus David Mullan was honoured with a festschrift entitled Inside and Outside Canadian Administrative Law: Essays in Honour of David Mullan , edited by Michael Taggart and Grant Huscroft and published by University of Toronto Press.

In 2006, Professor Paul Paton was named Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism for his work on corporate and legal ethics (only the second Canadian to be awarded this honour).

In 2005, Professor Anita Anand was awarded a Fulbright Award and appointed Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale Law School for 2005-2006.

In 2005, Professor Art Cockfield was appointed Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law at the University of Texas. He was also awarded a Charles D. Gonthier Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice for research on privacy, technology and the justice system. And, in the same year, he was named to the UNESCO EOLSS International Editorial Council as a "recognized world expert" in legal studies.

In 2004-05, Professor Mark Walters was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and was the Herbert Smith Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

In 2003, Professor Anita Anand was the winner of the 2003 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award for “The Efficiency of Direct Public Offerings” (published in The Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law ).

In 2002, Professor Gary Trotter was awarded the Foundation for Legal Research’s Walter Own Book Prize for The Law of Bail in Canada, judged the most outstanding book written about law in Canada in a two-year period.

In 2001, Professor Mark Walters won the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award for “The Common Law Constitution in Canada: Return of the Lex Non Scripta as Fundamental Law” (published in the University of Toronto Law Journal).