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Professor Benjamin Ewing has a particular interest in “what it means to have a fair opportunity to avoid punishment – and the nature and role of a fair opportunity to avoid crime as a component of a fair opportunity to avoid punishment.” (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)
Professor Benjamin Ewing has a particular interest in “what it means to have a fair opportunity to avoid punishment – and the nature and role of a fair opportunity to avoid crime as a component of a fair opportunity to avoid punishment.” (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)

Meet Benjamin Ewing, one of seven new professors at Queen’s Law

July 16, 2018
Professor Benjamin Ewing, one of seven new faculty members at Queen's Law, has a particular interest in “what it means to have a fair opportunity to avoid punishment – and the nature and role of a fair opportunity to avoid crime as a component of a fair opportunity to avoid punishment.”
Don Couturier, MPA’17/Law’19, author of the award-winning essay “Walking Together: Indigenous ADR in Land and Resource Disputes” that leaves readers with these parting thoughts: “Once we learn to walk together on this path, new possibilities will emerge for a shared future.”
Don Couturier, MPA’17/Law’19, author of the award-winning essay “Walking Together: Indigenous ADR in Land and Resource Disputes” that leaves readers with these parting thoughts: “Once we learn to walk together on this path, new possibilities will emerge for a shared future.”

Queen’s Law student wins national competition for best Indigenous law essay

July 9, 2018
Don Couturier, MPA’17/Law’19, wins the inaugural award from the Canadian Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section for his essay that "emphasizes how the different and varied worldviews of Indigenous nations should be embraced, not diluted, in the respectful and conscientious design of ADR processes.” 
Professor Don Stuart stands proudly with daughters Joanne (Law’03) and Chloe and wife Pam as former students pay tribute to the criminal law legend. (Photo by Rai Allen)
Professor Don Stuart stands proudly with daughters Joanne (Law’03) and Chloe and wife Pam as former students pay tribute to the criminal law legend. (Photo by Rai Allen)

Queen’s pays tribute to criminal law legend Don Stuart

June 25, 2018
An icon in the criminal justice field, a pillar of Queen’s Law and a beloved professor who has taught thousands of students, Don Stuart retires on June 30, following 48 years with the Faculty.
Karla McGrath, LLM’13, Brandon Karonyatatye Maracle, Law’21, and Associate Dean Cherie Metcalf at the ACCLE-CALT conference held at Queen’s Law.
Karla McGrath, LLM’13, Brandon Karonyatatye Maracle, Law’21, and Associate Dean Cherie Metcalf at the ACCLE-CALT conference held at Queen’s Law.

Queen’s Law hosts national conference to upgrade legal education

June 22, 2018
At “The Whole Lawyer 2.0” conference, 77 professional legal educators from across the country - including 17 Queen’s Law community members – shared their research on topics ranging from ethics to technology as they looked at how to re-orient the framework of legal thinking towards a more modern and comprehensive perspective.
Mohammad Khimji

Get to know Mohamed Khimji, the Allgood Professor in Business Law at Queen’s

June 20, 2018
Professor Mohamed Khimji is on a mission to help even more Queen’s Law students "get and be successful in the big business law jobs.” Now two years into his leadership position as the inaugural David Allgood Professor in Business Law, he sat down with the Queen’s Gazette to talk about his experience so far.
Douglas Cardinal, LLD’18 (third right), outside Grant Hall on June 6 with Dean Bill Flanagan; Ovide Mercredi, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations; David Sharpe, Law’95, CEO of Bridging Finance Inc.; Mark Dockstator, President of the First Nations University of Canada; and Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment and Support Coordinator at Queen’s Law. (Photo by Greg Black)
Douglas Cardinal, LLD’18 (third right), outside Grant Hall on June 6 with Dean Bill Flanagan; Ovide Mercredi, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations; David Sharpe, Law’95, CEO of Bridging Finance Inc.; Mark Dockstator, President of the First Nations University of Canada; and Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment and Support Coordinator at Queen’s Law. (Photo by Greg Black)

Queen’s Law honorary degree recipient praises university’s reconciliation perspective

June 14, 2018
Douglas Cardinal, a leading voice for reconciliation, took the opportunity in his Convocation address to acknowledge the great strides taken by Queen’s towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.