Queen's Law

With a strong tradition of community engagement and collegiality underpinning the pursuit of academic excellence, we attract a talented and diverse student population from across Canada every year. Read about joining our JD program…

Erik Knutsen, newly appointed Associate Dean (Academic), aims to provide more “opportunities for our world-class scholars to interact with Queen’s Law students in innovative, relevant and exciting ways.” Read about his plans to make the Queen’s Law experience even better. 

Experience a unique international law program, taught at the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle in England. Learn more about our spring-term International Law Programs.

The November 2017 edition of our stewardship magazine, Supporting Excellence, provides an in-depth look at how alumni support is an ongoing and powerful force for change at Queen's Law. Read about the new Sigurdson Professorship, Clinic support, a new Indigenous student support program, and much more here.

Our graduates benefit from a career development office with among the best placement rates of any Canadian law school, equipping our graduates to excel in any number of legal disciplines. 

The Queen’s Law Clinics, a co-located group of five public-facing clinics in downtown Kingston, are now receiving applications from Queen’s Law students for course enrollment for 2018-19 and 2018 summer employment. Students can learn more on how to apply here.

Queen's Law has two named Professorships in corporate law: the Allgood Professorship in Business Law, named for David Allgood (pictured here with Dean Flanagan) and the Sigurdson Professorship in Corporate Law and Finance, established in 2017.

Our alumni can be found everywhere in Canada -- and around the world -- and at every level of government, including the Supreme Court. They also play a rich part in the ongoing life of the school, including regular visits such as the one by retired Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell in October of 2016.

The Queen's Law learning commons is a 165-seat, wifi-enabled space for law students to work, study and collaborate in study carrels, lounge areas and breakout rooms for meetings and moot practices.

Our new Undergraduate Certificate in Law courses are now open for undergrad registration: Introduction to Canadian Law, Aboriginal Law, Workplace Law and Corporate Law courses can be taken online and applied toward a Certificate in Law from Queen's.