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Continued support for free access to Queen’s Legal Aid services and representation is being asked in the AMS referendum on October 30 and 31. (Photo by Greg Black)

Preserving free legal services for Queen’s undergrads

Continued support for free access to Queen’s Legal Aid services and representation is being asked in the AMS referendum on October 30 and 31. (Photo by Greg Black)

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Federally appointed Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray presents “Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience,” her July 2024 report on unmarked burials and mass graves of missing and disappeared Indigenous children in Canada, to Queen’s University community members in Grant Hall on Sept. 26.

Murray presents historical report on missing and disappeared Indigenous children

Kimberly Murray, the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites, discussed her report, Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience, with Queen’s community members.

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National research grants awarded to faculty for ‘insightful’ research

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Borrows comments on human rights for a more just world

Professor Lindsay Borrows makes a case that more-than-human rights informed by Indigenous legal traditions are essential to help us imagine the new rights needed for our millennium.

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What Queen’s Law faculty did this summer

Queen’s Law professors spent the summer writing books and articles, presenting at international conferences, and tackling diverse topics such as COVID public health compliance, the criminal rate of interest, political constitutions, and the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning.

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Orientation 2024

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Christa Bracci and Erica Friesen have written a new open-source resource for students: Legal Research Online: Information seeking in the digital environment.

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Professor Allan Manson (Photo by Greg Black)

Remembering Professor Emeritus Allan Manson

During his 39 years at Queen’s Law, Professor Manson was a highly respected expert on evidence law and sentencing and an award-winning teacher.

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Professor Alvin Cheung

Remembering Professor Alvin Cheung

An integral member of the faculty, Professor Alvin Cheung specialized in authoritarianism and the rule of law.

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A back-to-school wish list for Ontario’s 2025 high school financial literacy requirement

Professor Gail Henderson has co-authored “A back-to-school wish list for Ontario’s 2025 high school financial literacy requirement,” an article published in The Conversation.

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New doctoral graduate and Mackesy Smye lawyer Devan Schafer (middle), LLM’19, PhD’24 – shown with Professor Colin Grey and supervisor Associate Dean Cherie Metcalf after successfully defenced his thesis – has developed a practical framework for a systemic way to explain individual decisions made by administrative boards and tribunals.

New PhD grad makes case for recognizing systemic administrative injustice as a basis for judicial review

Devan Schafer, LLM’19, PhD’24, has developed a practical framework for a systemic way to explain individual decisions made by administrative boards and tribunals.