Queen's Law's New David Mullan Entrance Scholarship

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Dean Bill Flanagan, Mullan Scholar Krystin Kempton, Professor Emeritus David Mullan, Mullan Scholar Jeremy Fox, and Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada at the reception to launch the David Mullan Entrance Scholarship in Toronto on April 28, 2008.

More than 250 alumni, faculty, staff and students attended a reception at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on April 28, 2008, to celebrate the launch of the law school's newest scholarship. Pledges of over $1.1 million have been made to date to support the David Mullan Entrance Scholarship, named in honour of Professor Emeritus David Mullan, LL.M. ‘73. "This campaign represents unprecedented fund-raising success at Queen's Law," said Dean Bill Flanagan. This renewable scholarship will ensure that Queen's Law continues to attract and retain the best students.

Honouring Professor Emeritus David Mullan

Known nationally and internationally as one of Canada's foremost scholars in administrative law, to members of the Queen's Law community Mullan is also a much-loved colleague, teacher and friend.

"When I chat with alumni, David Mullan is mentioned continually with great fondness and respect," said Flanagan. "We needed some special way to acknowledge a professor whose contributions to Queen's have been so immense and so highly-valued over the years -- tonight, I think we may have found an appropriate way to honour David."

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Justice Marshall Rothstein and Dean Bill Flanagan at the display announcing the new David Mullan Entrance Scholarship in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.

"As a law professor, David Mullan was always provocative, rigorous, entertaining and accessible - qualities I found inspirational in my legal education and worthy of emulation in my professional life," said Chris Peirce, Law '82, Chief Regulatory Officer at MTS Allstream Inc. and a former student of Mullan's. "As David Mullan is a legal scholar of the first rank who is intimately associated with Queen's Law, it is only fitting that this leading merit-based scholarship be named in his honour."

"Intelligence, humility, passion, dedication to standards of excellence, uncompromising integrity - [these are] all the powerful qualities that are David Mullan," said Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada, who was a guest speaker at the event. "Those of us who have benefited from David Mullan's contributions are indeed fortunate; those of us who know David personally are all that much more enriched."

"I'm absolutely overwhelmed by all of this," said Mullan. "As someone who came to the Faculty as a graduate student in 1970, I'm just amazed that this would be the culmination of my career here."

About the Mullan Scholarship and Scholars

Awarded annually to two students of outstanding calibre entering Queen's Law, the $5,000 scholarship may be renewed for each recipient's second and third years of studies.

The inaugural "Mullan Scholars," Krystin Kempton and Jeremy Fox, were introduced at the reception. A native of Thunder Bay, Krystin will receive a B.A. in political science and an Honours B.A. in psychology from Lakehead University this spring. Jeremy, from Toronto, graduated with distinction with an Honours B.A. in business administration from the University of Western Ontario in 2007.

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Professor Emeritus David Mullan, LL.M. '73, speaks about being honoured with the renewable entrance scholarship in his name.

Continuing to Support Excellence

Additional contributions to the David Mullan Entrance Scholarship would be most welcome.

For further information or to make a gift, please contact Dianne Butler, Alumni Relations Coordinator, butlerd@queensu.ca, 613.533.6000 ext 78471.

Queen's Law specially thanks the alumni and friends listed at http://law.queensu.ca/alumni/alumniEvents/recentEvents/mullanScholarshipDonors.html for their generosity in supporting the David Mullan Entrance Scholarship.

For a profile of Professor Emeritus David Mullan, see http://law.queensu.ca/alumni/alumniEvents/recentEvents/mullanProfile.html