Below is a list of faculty members, including teaching, research, and sessional instructors for the Fall '23- Winter '24 terms. You can filter your results by clicking on the icons below. Please note this page is updated on a periodic basis and is refreshed to reflect the upcoming academic term.
Colleen M. Flood
Dean (Faculty of Law)
Colleen M. Flood began her five-year term as Dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, 2023. Dean Flood is recognized as one of Canada’s leading scholars in the area of health law and policy, and is an accomplished leader, author, and commentator.
Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Sharry Aiken
Professor; Academic Director, GDipICL
Professor Aiken’s scholarship engages with the controversies and complexities posed by immigration and border security measures as well as the impact of these measures on migrants and the communities they have established in Canada.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Bita Amani
Professor
Bita Amani researches intellectual property law (domestic and International), intellectual property law theory and policy and its interaction with law and development, regulating genetics and new technologies, biopiracy and protection of traditional and cultural knowledge, regulatory and ethical Issues of medical/scientific research and its commercialization, privacy and data protection, social justice and regulatory diversity, feminist and critical legal studies.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Beverley Baines
Professor
Beverley Baines is a Professor of Public and Constitutional Law with a passion for illuminating the legal strategies the patriarchal state deploys to deny women their right to equality which is guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Her passion dates from her involvement as a feminist constitutional consultant, first to the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women and then to the Ad Hoc Committee of Women on the Constitution during the Charter debates of 1980-1982.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Nicholas C. Bala
William R. Lederman Distinguished University Professor
Nicholas (Nick) Bala is an internationally recognized expert on issues related to children, youth and families in the justice system, and teaches in that area as well as Contract Law.
He graduated from Queen’s law school in 1977. After articling in Ottawa, he worked as Review Counsel at Queen’s Legal Aid, and then obtained a LL.M. from Harvard. Since 1980 he has been on the Faculty at Queen's Law, as well as a Visiting Professor at McGill, Osgoode Hall Law School, Duke and the University of Calgary.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Kevin Banks
Associate Dean (Faculty and Academic Policy), Associate Professor; Director, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace
Kevin Banks is Director of the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace. He teaches, researches and writes about international and Canadian labour and employment law. His research often focuses on the law in action, and specifically on whether and how it can be effective in achieving its purposes. He also teaches property law and advocacy. He earned his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his B.A. and LL.B from the University of Toronto.
Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Lindsay Borrows
Assistant Professor
Lindsay Borrows is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, where she teaches special topics in the field of Indigenous law. Previously she worked as a lawyer and researcher at the Indigenous Law Research Unit (University of Victoria Faculty of Law), and as a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law. In both positions she provided legal support to Indigenous communities and organizations engaged in the revitalization of their own laws for application in contemporary contexts.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Richard Chaykowski
Professor, MIR Program Director, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor Law
Richard Chaykowski received his PhD from Cornell University. Dr. Chaykowski is currently a faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Science and in the Faculty of Law (cross-appointed) at Queen's University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the MIT and a visitor at the University of Toronto and at McGill University.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Hugo Choquette
Introduction to Legal Skills & Aboriginal Law/Academic Director, Certificate in Law
Hugo Choquette has a PhD from the Queen’s Faculty of Law. Before returning to Queen’s Law to pursue graduate studies, he practiced in a small law office in Napanee, Ont. His research interests include language and law, constitutional law, and Aboriginal law. Over the last few years, he has taught introductory law courses both at the Faculty of Law and at Smith School of Business.
Faculty Members: Teaching
Sessional Instructor
Staff
Samuel Dahan
Associate Professor; Director, Conflict Analytics Lab
Prof. Samuel Dahan is the Founder of OpenJustice, an open-source platform and community that provides no-code development tools, and hosting infrastructure for legal AI applications, enabling users to embed legal reasoning into language models.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Shai Dubey is an instructor in Negotiation at Queen's Faculty of Law, as well as teaching courses in negotiations, cross-cultural management, ethics, domestic and international business law and entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business. He is the academic director for project courses in various MBA programs as well as the MIB program. 
Benjamin Ewing
Associate Professor
Benjamin Ewing is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law. Prior to joining Queen’s, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law. He earned his PhD in Politics from Princeton University, his JD from Yale Law School, and his AB in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude. At Princeton, Ewing was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow in the University Center for Human Values.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
David Freedman
Associate Professor
David Freedman is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law. He earned his LLB at Osgoode before obtaining postgraduate degrees (MA, PhD) at Oxford and Cambridge, respectively. Professor Freedman has taught trusts, wills and estates, estate litigation, civil procedure, and trial advocacy, subjects about which he has published extensively.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Colin Grey
Associate Professor
Colin Grey joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 2019. Professor Grey teaches and writes about immigration law, refugee law, and administrative law. In the past he has taught courses in legal theory, international migration law, and an interdisciplinary methods course for doctoral students. At Queen’s he will be developing three online courses for the new Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Debra M Haak
Assistant Professor
Debra Haak teaches criminal and constitutional law. She studied political science at Western and earned an LLB at the University of New Brunswick. She completed her MPhil at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in international relations and terrorist studies. Dr Haak earned her PhD at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law; her research focussed on Canada’s criminal laws targeting the commercial exchange of sexual touching and claims those laws violate sex workers’ Charter rights.
Faculty Members: Teaching
Lynne Hanson
Assistant Professor
Lynne Hanson teaches in a variety of subjects for Queen's Law, including Torts, Criminal Law, Contracts Law and Legal Skills.
Faculty Members: Teaching
Gail Henderson
Associate Professor
Gail Henderson is the Director of the Business Law Program at Queen’s Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of consumer financial protection, financial literacy and investor education, securities regulation, corporate law and contracts. Her research focuses on the regulation of financial products and services aimed at vulnerable consumers. She was principal investigator on an interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded research project on financial literacy in Ontario elementary schools and a co-investigator on the Canadian Financial Diaries Project.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Ardi Imseis
Associate Professor; Associate Academic Director, International Law Programs
Ardi Imseis is a scholar and practitioner of public international law. He joined the Queen’s Faculty of Law in 2018, following a 12-year career as a UN official in the Middle East, first with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and then with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Since leaving the UN, Imseis has continued to engage in high-level public advocacy on international law, peace and security, including a number of invited addresses to the UN Security Council.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Joshua Karton
Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Program Development), Associate Professor
Joshua Karton teaches and writes about international arbitration, comparative and international contract law, uniform law, globalization and law, international legal theory, and sociological analysis of law. His writing explores what happens when private actors from different backgrounds—legal, cultural, and linguistic—meet in the international legal arena.
Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Lisa Kelly
Associate Professor
Lisa M. Kelly is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, where she teaches criminal law and evidence. She studied history and political science at the University of British Columbia (B.A) and is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (S.J.D.), where she was a Trudeau Scholar. Kelly’s doctoral dissertation – Governing the Child: Parental Authority, State Power, and the School in North America – analyzed legal struggles over race and school discipline from the late-nineteenth century through the present.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Lisa Kerr
Associate Professor
Lisa Kerr teaches courses on criminal law, evidence, sentencing and prison law and she serves as the Director of the Criminal Law Group at Queen's Law. Professor Kerr's publications can be found
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Mohamed Khimji
David Allgood Professor in Business Law; Professor
Mohamed Khimji is the inaugural holder of the David Allgood Professorship in Business Law. He has also served in a number of senior leadership roles at Queen's Law, including as Director of the Queen’s Business Law Program, Associate Dean for Academic Policy, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. His strategic academic leadership has been instrumental in advancing the Faculty's academic goals and objectives.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Alyssa King
Assistant Professor
Alyssa King studies courts and comparative procedure, with a focus on issues of adjudicator role and borrowing of procedural rules. She is particularly interested in access to justice and in the intersection of normative systems through mechanisms such as federalism, arbitration, and the reception of international law.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Erik S. Knutsen
Professor
Erik S. Knutsen's areas of academic interest include insurance law, tort, civil litigation and civil procedure, health law and medical liability and accident law. He earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a B.A. (Hons.) from Lakehead University.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, where he has taught since 1998. He has published eight books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Kathleen Lahey
Professor, Queen's National Scholar, and Patricia Monture Distinguished University Professor
Kathleen Lahey is Professor and Queen's National Scholar, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Co-director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, and cross-appointed to the Queen’s Gender Studies and Cultural Studies departments.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Nicolas Lamp
Associate Professor; Associate Academic Director, International Law Programs
Nicolas Lamp joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor in 2014. In 2020, he was cross-appointed to the Queen’s School of Policy Studies. He also serves as the Academic Director of the International Law Programs, an eight-week summer course that Queen’s Law offers at Bader College at Herstmonceux castle in England during the summer term. Since 2019, he has also been the Director of the Annual Queen’s Institute on Trade Policy, a professional training course for Canadian trade officials that is hosted by the Queen’s School of Policy Studies.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Michele Leering
Visiting Scholar
Michele is a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s Faculty of Law. Graduating with a PhD from Queen’s Law in 2023, she also served for almost four decades as a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre, a non-profit community legal clinic in Belleville, Ontario. As a Visiting Scholar, she is pursuing two research and writing projects. The first advances her doctoral research findings on the importance of cultivating integrative reflective practice as an essential competency for legal professionals.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Mary-Jo Maur
Associate Professor
Professor Maur teaches teaches courses in family law and dispute resolution. Her research has focused on how the family law procedural system can better serve all parties in a family law dispute. She is a frequent invited presenter at a variety of top-level national legal fora, including the National Family Law Program and the National Judicial Institute. Professor Maur has twice been given the Law Students’ Society Teaching Excellence Award.
Faculty Members: Teaching
Cherie Metcalf
Associate Dean (Research), Professor
Cherie Metcalf is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Economics (cross-appointment). She completed her undergraduate degree at Queen’s before earning postgraduate degrees in Economics (MA, PhD) at the University of British Columbia, later returning to Queen’s to obtain her LLB. Following completion of her LL.B., she clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal and for former Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada. She then completed her LLM at Yale on a Fulbright scholarship before joining the faculty.
Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Oluwatobiloba Moody
Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in International Economic Law
Oluwatobiloba Moody, PhD’16, began his academic appointment at Queen's Law on January 1, 2022. Since receiving his doctorate, he has advised Canada’s federal and provincial governments on key intellectual property policy initiatives, and has overseen the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO's) first external office in Sub-Saharan Africa .
Faculty Members: Teaching
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Kimberly R. Murray
Associate Professor
Kimberly Murray commenced her new role as Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies on January 1, 2025, after completing a federal appointment as the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Stanley U. Nweke-Eze
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanley U. Nweke-Eze holds a PhD in International Investment Law from the University of Hong Kong, an LLM in International Economic Law from Harvard Law School, a second LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge, and a first-class LLB from Nnamdi Azikwe University, Nigeria.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Bruce Pardy
Professor
Bruce Pardy is a wandering hedgehog who digs around in environmental law, energy policy, property and tort theory, constitutional rights and freedoms, university governance, free markets and the rule of law. He practiced civil litigation on Bay Street, taught at law schools in NZ and the US, and served for almost a decade on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Michael Pratt
Professor
Michael G Pratt is Professor of Law, cross-appointed to Philosophy, at Queen’s University. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he earned his BSc and, following an LLB from Osgoode, his LLM. He later obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney.
Professor Pratt joined Queen’s Law in 2003, having previously taught at the University of Queensland and the University of Alberta. He has served as Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research. Professor Pratt teaches a range of courses in private law, including Contracts, Torts, Remedies, and Land Transactions.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Darryl Robinson
Professor
Darryl Robinson was a Hauser Scholar at New York University School of Law (LLM International Legal Studies), where he received the Jerome Lipper Award for outstanding achievement in international law. Prior to that, he was the Gold Medalist at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, where he was a President's National Scholar.
He articled at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice John Major.
Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Don Stuart
Don Stuart was appointed to Queen’s in 1975. One of Canada's leading figures in Criminal Law, he has authored several books and continues to edit Criminal Law Reports as well as teaching at Queen's as a professor emeritus following his retirement in 2018.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Christine Sypnowich, Professor, Philosophy Department Head, Cross Appointed to Faculty of Law
Christine Sypnowich's research and teaching focusses on political philosophy, jurisprudence and feminism. She studied at the University of Toronto and did her D.Phil. as a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. Before coming to Queen’s in 1990 as a Queen’s National Scholar, she taught in Europe at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds and Leiden and in North America at the University of California, San Diego, and York University. In 2001-2002 Christine Sypnowich was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy of Law.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Jean Thomas
Associate Professor
Jean Thomas is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law. She is joint convenor of the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts in English Literature and a Juris Doctor, as well as of New York University, with a Master of Laws and a doctorate in law. Prior to joining Queen’s, Professor Thomas was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s McCoy Center for Ethics in Society and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy
Ashwini Vasanthakumar is an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School. She holds an A.B from Harvard; an M.A from the University of Toronto; a J.D from Yale Law School; and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Mark Walters
Professor
Professor Walters is recognized as one of Canada’s leading scholars in public and constitutional law, legal history and legal theory. He has researched and published extensively in these areas, with a special emphasis on the rights of Indigenous peoples, institutional structures and the history of legal ideas. His work on the rights of Indigenous peoples, focused on treaty relations between the Crown and Canada’s Indigenous nations, has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as by courts in Australia and New Zealand.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Grégoire Webber
Professor of Law and Philosophy
Grégoire Webber, M.S.M., is Professor of Law and Philosophy. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law. His research is in the areas of human rights, public law, and philosophy of law.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Jacob Weinrib
Associate Professor
Jacob Weinrib is an Assistant Professor at the Queen’s Faculty of Law. He graduated from the Combined JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he studied as a Vanier Scholar and received the David Savan Dissertation Prize. Before joining Queen’s, he held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the New York University School of Law as a Global Hauser Research Fellow in the Center for Constitutional Transitions (2013-4) and as a Dworkin-Balzan Fellow in the Center for Law and Philosophy (2014-2015). Weinrib is the author of Dimensions of Dignity: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Robert Yalden
Sigurdson Professor in Corporate Law and Finance
Robert Yalden is the inaugural holder of the Stephen Sigurdson Professorship in Corporate Law and Finance. Prior to joining Queen’s Law in 2018, Robert was a senior partner with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and an Adjunct Professor with McGill Law.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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