Bill Flanagan, Dean and Professor of Law

Bill Flanagan

Dean and Professor of Law

Bill Flanagan holds a B.A. (English and Philosophy) from Carleton University (1982), a J.D. from the University of Toronto (1985), a D.E.A. in international economic law from Paris I (Université Paris I-Sorbonne)(1986), and an LL.M. from Columbia University (1989). He has been a member of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University for the past 27 years and has served as Dean of Law for almost 14 years. He was a law clerk for the Hon. Justice Estey of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1986-87.

Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
David Sharpe

David Sharpe

Vice Chair, Dean's Council / Instructor, Indigenous Negotiations

David is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Bridging Finance Inc., a private investment management firm based in Toronto.  David has two decades of financial services industry experience, in roles such as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, and previously was the head of investigations for the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada.

Council Member
Sessional Instructor
Tomilola Adebiyi

Tomilola Adebiyi

Staff Lawyer, Queen's Business Law Clinic

Tomilola Adebiyi brings an ideal background to the clinic with relevant training and experience in addition to her belief in our mission to serve the students and the local business community.

 

Staff
Hugh Adsett

Hugh Adsett

Hugh Adsett is an instructor in International Environmental & Resource Law and Advanced Issues in International Law at Queen's University Faculty of Law. He also instructs at the Bader International Study Centre, and you can find out more about Mr. Adsett on our Public International Law page.

Sessional Instructor
Sharry Aiken

Sharry Aiken

Associate Professor

Sharry Aiken is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law with a cross appointment to Cultural Studies. She is an expert on immigration and refugee law and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of precedent setting immigration cases.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Bita Amani

Bita Amani

Associate 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
Kuukuwa Andam. Photo: Garrett Elliot

Kuukuwa Andam

PhD Candidate

Kuukuwa Andam has worked with diverse legal aid organizations across Ghana and the United States of America. She most recently worked as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Scheme, Ghana’s governmental organization that provides legal services to indigent persons, particularly to women and children.

Kuukuwa holds an LL.M. degree from Cornell University and has received the following awards: HR Stuart Ryan Fellowship (2015-2017), International Tuition Award (2014-2018) and the Queen’s University Graduate Awards (2014-2018).

Graduate Student
Len Anderson

Len Anderson

Developer, LSM 810

In 1979 it dawned on newly married Len that a regular job would be a good thing. And what could be more regular than accounting? Price Waterhouse (now PwC) generously gave me a start in the UK and in 1982 I qualified as a chartered accountant. After a couple of years in the UK automotive industry it was time to settle down and start a family, and Canada seemed like a fine place to do that. So, in December 1985 I started with Canadian firm Thorne Riddell which later became KPMG. I became a partner with the firm in 1993.

Sessional Instructor
Ekaterina Andam

Ekaterina Antsygina

PhD Candidate

Ekaterina Antsygina graduated with honors from the Mari State University with specialization in international and comparative law (LL.M). Her master studies were sponsored by the Fulbright Scholarship. Ekaterina is admitted to the New York State Bar. Her research is devoted to the delimitation of extended continental shelves in the Arctic Ocean.

Graduate Student

Delano Aragao Vaz

PhD Candidate

Delano is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, under the joint supervision of Professor David Murakami Wood (Department of Sociology) and Professor Lisa Kelly (Faculty of Law). Currently, as an Ontario Trillium Scholarship holder, he is exploring the intersectionality of law and surveillance. His research focuses on socio-legal issues related to race, colonialism, big data, national security, and (suppression of) dissent.
Graduate Student
Martha Bailey

Martha Bailey

Professor

Martha Bailey is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University, where she teaches Contracts, Family Law, and Conflict of Laws. She has also taught International Family Law in the Osgoode Hall Law School Professional LLM program and Comparative Law in the Bader International Study Centre Global Law Program. She was awarded the LSS Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Iowa, NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, India, Melbourne University, Emory Law School, and Vermont Law School.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Beverley Baines

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
Nick Bala

Nicholas C. Bala

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.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Anthony Ball

Anthony Ball is an instructor in Negotiation at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Martha Patricia Ballenas Loayza

Martha Patricia Ballenas Loayza

PhD Candidate

Martha Patricia Ballenas Loayza has worked as an Associate Professor in the National Academy for Judges and Prosecutors - National Government of Peru. Patricia has also worked as a Legal Affairs Manager for Financiera Confianza, a company of the BBVA Foundation.

Patricia holds a master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has received the Daniel Soberman Ph.D. Scholarship for Constitutional Law (2017-2018), the International Tuition Award (2017-2018) and the Queen’s University Graduate Awards (2017-2018).

Graduate Student
Kevin Banks

Kevin Banks

Associate Professor; Director, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace

Director, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Andrea Boctor

Andrea Boctor is an instructor in Pensions and the Law at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Christa Bracci

Christa Bracci is an instructor in Advanced Legal Research at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Colm Brannigan

Colm Brannigan is an instructor in ADR at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
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Nancy Brar

Staff Lawyer, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Nancy Brar has been with the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic since 2015. She was one of the top students in the Law 418 (Prison Law) course and became the Clinic’s first Articling Student before being hired on as a Staff Lawyer in 2017.

Staff
Derek Cannon

Derek Cannon

Administrative Assistant, Queen's Elder Law, Family Law and Business Law Clinics

Derek Cannon has been working with the Queen’s University Faculty of Law since October 2014. He is the administrative support for the Queen’s Business Law, Elder Law, and Family Law clinics. He attended St. Lawrence College from September 2009 to May 2012 and received an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration – Human Resources. Derek’s decision to pursue a career in the administration field came after a tour in Afghanistan.

Staff

Don Carter

Don Carter is an instructor in Collective Agreements & Arbitration at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Cristobal Caveides

Cristóbal Caviedes

PhD Candidate

In 2016, following a recent collusion scandal, Cristóbal was invited as an expert witness to the Chilean Senate’s Economics Committee to comment on a proposed governmental bill to reform the Chilean Competition Act. Based on his research, Cristóbal made suggestions on how to improve the reforms proposed to the Chilean merger control system. The bill was passed by the Senate on July 2016 and then enacted as a law of the republic in August 2016. Many of the suggestions made by Cristóbal during the committee hearings were incorporated to the final text.
Graduate Student

Richard Chaykowski

Professor, MIR Program Director, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Associate 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

Hugo Choquette

Introduction to Legal Skills & Aboriginal 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.

Sessional Instructor
Ana Patricia Chuc Gamboa

Ana Patricia Chuc Gamboa

PhD Candidate

Ana Patricia Chuc Gamboa has worked in diverse capacities as an attorney in Mexico since 2012 including advising foreign companies which import and export raw materials in Mexico. Ana has a master’s degree in International Law from the Graduate School of Government and Public Policy – now called the School of Government and Public Transformation – at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and a second master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the Autonomous University of Yucatan where she focused on human rights.

Graduate Student

Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke is an instructor in Competition Law at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Sarah Clarke

Sarah Clarke is an instructor in Aboriginal Child Welfare at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Arthur Cockfield

Arthur Cockfield

Professor

A tax law scholar and policy consultant, Arthur Cockfield is also known in the classroom as an innovative instructor who weaves narrative elements into his courses.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Justin Connidis

Justin Connidis is an instructor in Mining Law & Policy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Helen Conway

Helen Conway is an instructor in Introduction to Canadian Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Blair Crew, Director, Queen's Legal Aid

Blair Crew

Director, Queen's Legal Aid

Staff

Darryl Cruz

Darryl Cruz is an instructor in Trial Advocacy and Medical Malpractice at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Samuel Dahan

Samuel Dahan

Assistant Professor

Samuel Dahan joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in 2018. He is the Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab, a LegalTech global consortium on the application of data analytics and AI to dispute resolution and negotiation. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University, an affiliate faculty member of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and a member of the European Incubator of the Brussels Bar.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Santino Dau

PhD

Santino Dau successfully defended and convocated with a PhD from Queen's Law in the fall of 2018.

Santino Dau has had a diverse teaching experience including assisting with a Labor and Employment Law course at Queen’s University and working as a seasonal instructor at the Royal Military College (RMC). Santino holds an LLM from Dalhousie University and has received the Queen’s University Faculty of Law Student Award (2016-2017) and the Robert Sutherland Fellowship (2014-2015).

Graduate Student

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is an instructor in Contested Transactions at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Colleen Dempsey

Instructor, LAW 203/703: Workplace Law

Colleen Dempsey is a proud alumna of Queen’s University, having graduated from the Faculty of Law, as well as the Faculty of Arts and Science. Colleen has an extensive background in workplace law.

Since November 2005, she has sat as a Vice-Chair for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.  Additionally, she provides employment law consulting services and has an Alternative Dispute Resolution practice.  Prior to 2005, Colleen was a General Counsel for a Canadian Multi-National Corporation and began her legal career at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto.

Sessional Instructor

Sunita Doobay

Sunita Doobay is an instructor in Taxation of Trusts & Estates at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Adam Douglas

Adam Douglas is an instructor in International Investment Law at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Georges Dube

Georges Dube is an instructor in Contested Transactions at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Shai Dubey

Executive Director, Undergraduate and Professional Programs

Shai DubeyShai 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. 

Sessional Instructor

Alicia Elias-Roberts

PhD Candidate

Alicia Elias-Roberts served in academia for over 18 years and was the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago and was a former Head of Department of Law at the University of Guyana.

Alicia holds a master’s in law Degree from the University of Oxford and an LLM in Energy, Environment and Natural Resource Law from the University of Houston and has received the Robert Sutherland Fellowship in law, HR Stuart Ryan Fellowship, International Tuition Award and Queen’s University Graduate Scholarship during PhD (2016-2018).

Graduate Student

Mark Ellis

Mark Ellis is an instructor in Trial Advocacy and Fiduciary Obligations at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Annamaria Enenajor

Annamaria Enenajor is an instructor in Bias and Criminal Justice System Outcomes at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Benjamin Ewing

Benjamin Ewing

Assistant Professor

Benjamin Ewing is an Assistant 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

Jennifer Ferguson

Jennifer Ferguson is an instructor in Advanced Criminal at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Kathy

Kathy Ferreira

Director, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Kathy Ferreira has been the Director of the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic (QPLC) since 2017.  She has many years of experience working at QPLC as she was hired as a Staff Lawyer in 2003 and among other responsibilities carried her own caseload at Warkworth Institution, where she enjoyed the regular client interaction and direct representation.  After winning the

Staff

Rory Fowler

Rory Fowler is an instructor in Tribunal Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
David Freedman

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

Maureen Gauci

Maureen Gauci is an instructor in ADR at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Jesse Gilroy

Finance & Administrative Assistant, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Jesse Gilroy has been the Finance & Administrative Assistant for the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic (QPLC) since December 2018. He believes that his years of municipal administration and financial background have allowed him to become a welcome part of the QPLC team. When not at work, he enjoys fishing, playing music, and putting out fires as a Volunteer Firefighter.

Staff

Johnathan Goode

Johnathan Goode is an instructor in Construction Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Moya Graham

Moya Graham is an instructor in Trial Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Les Green

Leslie Green

Professor

Leslie Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's. After beginning his teaching career at Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has visited and taught at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Kevin Greenspoon

Kevin Greenspoon is an instructor in Advanced Corporate Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Bryan Guertin

Bryan Guertin is an instructor in Trial Advocacy - Criminal at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
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Debra Haak

PhD Candidate

Debra practiced commercial and insolvency litigation at Gowling WLG (previously Smith Lyons) for more than 20 years.  She now applies private law thinking in her research that focuses on the role of public law in a contested public policy space. 

Graduate Student
Sessional Instructor

Lynne Hanson

Adjunct 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
Maseeh Haseeb

Maseeh Haseeb

PhD Candidate

Maseeh Haseeb holds a master’s degree in Legal Studies from Carleton University. He is presently a teaching assistant at Queen’s University. In 2016, Haseeb was the annual recipient of Queen’s University Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow Excellence Award.  
 

Graduate Student
Gail Henderson

Gail Henderson

Associate Professor

Professor Gail Henderson joined Queen's University Faculty of Law as assistant professor in July 2016. Her research interests include corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, securities regulation and the regulation of financial institutions.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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Blair Hicks

Director, Queen's Elder Law Clinic

Blair Hicks is Director of the Queen’s Elder Law Clinic. She is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and served as a Search and Rescue Air Navigator for more than 20 years before building a law practice. Blair Hicks received her Juris Doctor (JD) from Western University in London, Ontario, and is trained in mediation, negotiation, and collaborative law.

Staff

Marlin Horst

Marlin Horst is an instructor in Commercial Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Adam Houston

Adam Houston is an instructor in Public Health Law at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law. 

Sessional Instructor
Valerie Hughes

Valerie Hughes

Valerie Hughes is an instructor in International Trade Law Practicum at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Christian Hurley

Christian Hurley

Instructor, LAW 204/704: Corporate Law

Christian Hurley has an extensive business law background, having practiced in the area for several years with one of Atlantic Canada’s largest law firms. He is currently acting as Director of Legal Education at the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador where he oversees the administration of the bar admission and continuing legal education programs.

Sessional Instructor
Ardi Imseis

Ardi Imseis

Assistant Professor

Ardi Imseis is interested in the intersection of power, politics, law, and justice, and the practical impact of those phenomena on international relations in general and on underrepresented peoples in particular. Professor Imseis is currently working on a book based on his SSHRC-funded PhD research which critically examines the gulf between international law and United Nations action, using the question of Palestine as a case study.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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Morgan Jarvis

Academic Director, Certificate in Law; and Director, Queen’s Business Law Clinic

Morgan Jarvis brings practical business law training to Queen’s Law students through the Queen’s Business Law Clinic, as a practicing lawyer, and legal education to all through the Certificate in Law.

Staff

Kelly Jordan

Kelly Jordan is an instructor in Fertility & Assisted Reproduction Law in Canada at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Andrew Kalamut

Andrew Kalamut is an instructor in Trial Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Lanny Kamin

Lanny Kamin is an instructor in Trial Advocacy - Civil at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Joshua Karton

Joshua Karton

Associate Professor / Associate Dean, Graduate Studies & Research

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
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Lisa Kelly

Assistant Professor

Lisa M. Kelly is an Assistant 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

Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy is an instructor in International Law (Online) at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Lisa Kerr, Assistant Professor, Queen’s Law

Lisa Kerr

Assistant Professor, Queen’s Law

Lisa Kerr teaches courses on criminal law, sentencing and prison law and she serves as the Director of the Criminal Law Group at Queen's Law.

Professor Kerr earned her JD at the University of British Columbia. She clerked with the BC Court of Appeal and was an associate at Fasken Martineau. She also served as staff lawyer at Prisoners’ Legal Services, Canada’s only dedicated legal aid office for prisoners.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Mohamed Khimji

Mohamed Khimji

Associate Professor / David Allgood Professor in Business Law

Mohamed Khimji is the inaugural holder of the David Allgood Professorship in Business Law. His research interests lie in the areas of corporate law, commercial transactions, and intermediated securities. He has acted as a consultant on issues in these areas to private law firms and government and regulatory agencies in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Alyssa King

Alyssa King

Assistant Professor

Alyssa King studies how adjudicators define their own roles and sources of legitimacy as well as issues of access to justice. She is particularly interested in the intersection of normative systems through mechanisms such as federalism, arbitration, and the reception of international law.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Peter Kissick

Developer, LAW 204/704: Corporate Law

Peter Kissick has taught Business Law and Business Ethics at Queen’s University since 1998. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1990 and has practiced business law at a large Toronto law firm, in the in-house legal department of a Canadian bank and more recently as a sole practitioner. In the Queen’s School of Business, Peter has taught in executive and MBA programs; he has also been the Director of the renowned Queen’s Commerce Program and he has won several awards for his teaching in that program.

Sessional Instructor
Erik S. Knutsen

Erik Knutsen

Professor / Associate Dean, Academic

Erik S. Knutsen is Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He has also taught in the Queen’s School of Medicine and as a core faculty member in Queens’ interdisciplinary Masters of Science in Healthcare Quality program. His areas of academic interest include insurance law, tort, accident law, medical malpractice, civil procedure and the civil litigation system.

Administration
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Brian Kolenda

Brian Kolenda is an instructor in International Law (Online) at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
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Kathleen Lahey

Professor and Queen's National Scholar

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

Nicolas Lamp

Assistant Professor

Nicolas Lamp joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor in 2014. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Global Law Programs that Queen’s Law offers at the Bader International Study Centre, Herstmonceux castle, England, during the summer term. Prior to joining Queen's,

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Rachel Law

Articling Student

Staff

Andrea Lee

Andrea Lee is an instructor in Construction Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Michele Leering

Michele Leering

PhD Candidate

Michele Leering is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre, a non-profit community legal clinic in Belleville, Ontario. She holds a Masters of Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia). She is a member of the International Legal Aid Group and has also worked with the Open Society Justice Initiative, Ukraine’s International Renaissance Foundation, and Namati to provide training on legal empowerment, community lawyering, and paralegals in international forums.

Graduate Student

Shirley Levitan

Shirley Levitan is an instructor in Fertility & Assisted Reproduction Law in Canada at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Mark Luz

Mark Luz is an instructor in International Investment Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

David Lyon

Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Law

David Lyon's research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major social transformations in the modern world. Questions of the information society, globalization, secularization, surveillance, and debates over “post-” and “digital” modernity feature prominently in his work. Lyon was formerly an editor of Surveillance & Society and is Associate Editor of The Information Society.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Marianna MacIntosh

Marianna MacIntosh is an instructor in Pensions and the Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Mary Jo Maur

Mary-Jo Maur

Assistant 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
Nancy McCormack

Nancy McCormack

Librarian, Associate Professor

Nancy McCormack is an Associate Professor and Law Librarian at Queen’s University, where she teaches Torts and Advanced Legal Research for JD students and Legal Research and Writing for graduate students. She has co-authored numerous books including the Annotated Federal Interpretation Act, The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research, Introduction to the Law and Legal System of Canada, and Updating Statutes and Regulations for all Canadian Jurisdictions.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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Karla McGrath

Executive Director, Queen's Law Clinics and Director, Family Law Clinic

Originally from Newfoundland and raised in Nunavut and Labrador, Karla McGrath is a graduate of Carleton University (BA, 1988), the University of Kentucky College of Law in Lexington, Kentucky (JD, 1996) and of Queen’s Law (LL.M., 2013). Following completion of an accreditation year and articles, Karla was called to the bar in both Ontario and New York in 2000.

Sessional Instructor
Staff

Justice Don McLeod

Sessional Instructor
Hiwot Abebe Mekuanent

Hiwot Mekuanent

PhD Candidate

Hiwot holds LLM in human rights law from Addis Ababa University and has over six years of experience in the area. She is a lecturer and the Director for Disability Studies and Service Directorate at the University of Gondar, where she focuses on creating conducive learning and working environments for students and employees with disabilities. Hiwot is a fellow of Mandela Washington Fellowship (USA) and Young African Leaders Initiative (Kenya), where she was trained to be a leader.
Graduate Student
Cherie Metcalf

Cherie Metcalf

Associate Professor

Cherie Metcalf is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University. 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 then 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.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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Jana Mills

Review Counsel, Queen's Legal Aid

Jana Mills, Law ’92, clerked for the Court of Appeal for Ontario before her Call to the Bar in 1994. Returning to her hometown of Kingston, she practiced as a sole practitioner in the areas of criminal and correctional law. In 1995 she assisted Commission counsel to the “Commission of Inquiry into Events at Prison for Women in Kingston” (The Honourable Louise Arbour, 1996) and in 1996 she assisted Commission counsel to the “Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin (The Honourable Fred Kaufman, 1997).

Staff
Ryan Minor

Ryan Minor

PhD Candidate

My primary research area concerns the use of the tax system to stimulate research and development in Canada.  My thesis concerns the potential for Canada to enact a "patent box" under which firms that develop qualifying intellectual property are encouraged to commercialize the IP worldwide from Canada by a low tax rate.  Patent boxes are common in Europe and empirical work on the effectiveness of such regimes is sparse.

Graduate Student

Jane Mundy

Articling Student

Staff
Warren Newman

Warren Newman

PhD Candidate

Warren Newman is Senior General Counsel in the Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section of the Department of Justice of Canada and Director of the Professional Development LL.M. Program in Constitutional Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He has practiced in constitutional law for more than 35 years.

Graduate Student
Sessional Instructor

Robert Nicholls

Robert Nicholls is an instructor in Advanced Corporate Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Abayomi Okubote

Abayomi Okubote

PhD Candidate

Abayomi Okubote worked in Olaniwun Ajayi LP (a top tier commercial law firm in Nigeria) and has garnered almost 10 years’ experience in dispute resolution. At Olaniwun Ajayi LP, he was part of the teams that represented multinational and domestic corporations in commercial law disputes. He has advised government agencies on several cutting-edge projects in Africa.

Graduate Student

Phil Osanic

Phil Osanic is an instructor in Apellate Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Anthony Paciocco

Anthony Paciocco is an instructor in Trial Advocacy - Criminal at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Alexandra Pederson

Alexandra Pederson is an instructor in Mining Law & Policy at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Patricia Peppin

Patricia Peppin

Professor

Professor Peppin is currently working on images of inequality in prescription drug advertisements, and on innovation in the pharmaceutical field and its impact on women’s health.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Ksenia Polonskaya

Ksenia Polonskaya

PhD

Ksenia Polonskaya successfully defended and convocated with a PhD from Queen's Law in the fall of 2018.

Graduate Student
Michael Pratt

Michael Pratt

Associate Professor

Michael Pratt is an Associate 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 at the University of Sydney.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
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Paul Quick

Staff Lawyer, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Paul Quick has been a staff lawyer and litigation counsel for the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic since 2016.  Previously he practiced criminal and correctional law in Kingston, and social-justice-oriented civil litigation in Toronto.  He graduated from Queen’s Law in 2009 with a score of academic awards, including the Medal in Law for highest standing.  Paul supervises students in the Law 418 (Prison Law) and Law 419 (Advanced Prison Law) courses, and represents prisoners in Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.  He maintains a tiny flock of backyard chicke

Staff
Darryl Robinson

Darryl Robinson

Darryl Robinson was a Hauser Scholar at New York University School of Law (LL.M 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.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Richard Sauvé

Richard Sauvé

Indigenous Justice Coordinator

For the past 20 years I have worked with St. Leonard’s LifeLine and Peer Life Transition. I have helped prepare Lifers to successfully transition from a correctional environment to life on parole.

Staff

Melissa Seal

Melissa Seal is an instructor in Tribunal Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Brett Seifred

Brett Seifred is an instructor in Advanced Corporate Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Jonathan Shanks

Developer and Instructor, LAW 205/705: Public & Constitutional Law

Jonathan Shanks graduated from the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 2007.  He joined the Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section of the federal Department of Justice as Counsel in 2008. In 2016-2017, Jonathan was seconded to the Privy Council Office (Machinery of Government Secretariat). Jonathan has a varied practice relating to the division of powers, democratic institutions, the royal prerogative and Crown law.

Sessional Instructor

Patrick Shea

Patrick Shea is an instructor in Insolvency Restructuring at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Glenn Sheskay

Glenn Sheskey is an instructor in Communications Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Geoff Sigalet

Geoff Sigalet

Geoffrey T. Sigalet is a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University and a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center for the 2018-19 academic year. He completed his PhD in political theory and public law at Princeton University, where his dissertation developed a republican theory of ‘dialogical’ judicial review and constitutional interpretation. Sigalet earned an MA in political theory and public law from Princeton in 2014 and completed an MA in political theory at McGill University, where he was a member of the McGill Research Group on Constitutional Studies.

Visiting Faculty
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Linda Smith

Review Counsel, Queen's Legal Aid & Queen's Family Law Clinic

Linda Smith, Law’92, practiced law in Kingston and the surrounding area for more than 20 years.  She has represented hundreds of legal aid clients in her capacity as a Legal Aid Ontario panel lawyer in family law, criminal law, child protection litigation and domestic violence matters.  Linda also acted as duty/advice counsel on the per diem panel of lawyers assisting clients at the Family Court in Kingston.

Staff

Benjamin Snow

Benjamin Snow is an instructor in Trial Advocacy - Criminal at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Martin Sorensen

Martin Sorensen is an instructor in Corporate Taxation at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Ian Speers

Ian Speers is an instructor in Land Transactions at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Justice Stratas

Justice Stratas is an instructor in Legal Writing & Written Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Don Stuart

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

Thomas Sutton

Thomas Sutton is an instructor in Medical Malpractice and Trial Advocacy at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

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

Bob Tarantino

Bob Tarantino is an instructor in Copy Right Law at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Jean Thomas

Jean Thomas

Assistant Professor, Queen's Law

Jean Thomas is Assistant 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
Sabine Tsuruda

Sabine Tsuruda

Assistant Professor

Sabine Tsuruda is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law. She graduated from the Joint JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at UCLA, where she studied as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and served as a Senior Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Prior to joining Queen’s, she was a Predoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy at UCLA. She also holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in Philosophy from Stanford University.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Justin Turner

Justin Turner

Articling Student, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Justin Turner joined the Queen's Prison Law Clinic in July 2018 as the clinic's Articling Student. He graduated from Queen's Law in 2018 following a lengthy career in health care. Justin represents clients on a variety of matters affecting Federal Prisoners incarcerated at all of the Kingston area institutions and is involved in mentoring law students enrolled in the LAW 418 (Prison Law) course. Justin is enjoying the challenges of starting his new career in law.

Staff
Ashwini Vasanthakumar

Ashwini Vasanthakumar

Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy, Queen's Law

Ashwini Vasanthakumar is Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. 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. She comes to Queen’s from the School of Law, King’s College London.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Jacob Weinrib

Jacob Weinrib

Assistant 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
Noah Weisbord

Noah Weisbord

Associate Professor

Noah Weisbord is an Associate Professor at Queen's Law. His research focuses on the role of the criminal law in managing, reflecting or exacerbating intergroup conflict. A current project examines self-defence in Canadian criminal law from historical, comparative, and conceptual perspectives. Noah is a leading expert on the crime of aggression—individual criminal responsibility for aggressive war—and he assisted diplomatic delegations to define the crime. His monograph on the crime of aggression is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in June 2019. 

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Michael Whitcombe

Michael Whitcombe is an instructor in Private Law Equity at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor

Christopher Whitehead

Christopher Whitehead is an instructor in Property Law (3,6) at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Robert Yalden Queen's Faculty of Law

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.

Robert’s publications and research focus on the forces that shape competing perspectives on the roles and responsibilities of corporations, boards of directors and different stakeholders, and that in turn influence the institutional architecture that countries put in place to oversee and foster the evolution of business law.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research