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Blair Crew, Director, Queen's Legal Aid

Blair Crew

Executive Director, Queen's Law Clinics and Director, Queen's Legal Aid

Blair Crew is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A.,1991), the University of Ottawa (LL.B., 1998) and Cornell University (LL.M., 2005). After articling at Stikeman, Elliott, Blair was called to the bar in Ontario 2000.  In the first five years of his legal career, he practiced criminal law and plaintiff-side civil litigation at Karam, Greenspon, in Ottawa, where he appeared at all levels of court, including two appearances before the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Colleen M. Flood

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.

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Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Abdullahi M. Abdulquadir

Abdullahi M. Abdulquadir

Abdullahi Moyosore ABDULQUADIR is a dedicated lawyer with deep interest in International Economic Law. He holds an LLB degree from the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), where he was actively involved in moot competitions. He was awarded the Murli T. Challeram Undergraduate Merit Scholarship for his academic excellence and served as the Chief Judge of the Law Students’ Society, Unilorin.

Graduate Student
Tomilola Adebiyi

Tomilola Adebiyi

Director, Queen's Business Law Clinic/Adjunct Lecturer, Law 204 (Online)

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.

 

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Sharry Aiken

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

Sara Ali

Career Development Coordinator

Sara thrives on supporting post-secondary students in their personal and professional development and supports a holistic educational experience. She completed her undergraduate degree in History, Jewish Studies and Political Science, and a Masters of Education, both from the University of Toronto, St. George Campus. Sara has worked in student support since 2015 and joined the CDO in 2019, she enjoys working with Queen’s Law students throughout recruitment and internships. In her spare time, Sara coaches the Queen’s University Field Hockey Team. 

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Bita Amani

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
Kuukuwa Andam

Kuukuwa Andam

PhD Candidate

Kuukuwa Andam is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and academic. She has worked on human rights cases for more than a decade; including providing country conditions expertise for asylum cases in the US and UK, and recently defending twenty-one human rights activists who were arrested and incarcerated in Ho, Ghana, while attending a training conference. She has served as a research consultant, and organized training seminars for staff of multiple international organizations including UNFPA, UNESCO, and RFSU.

Graduate Student
Delano Vaz

Delano Aragao Vaz

PhD Candidate

Delano is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. 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
Abebe

Abebe Assefa Alemu

PhD Candidate

Abebe Assefa Alemu (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, where his research focuses on the experiences of Deaf individuals within the Criminal Justice System in Ethiopia, under the supervision of professor Cherie Metcalf (PhD). His research interests include access to justice, criminal justice, disability rights, human rights, and women's rights.

Graduate Student
Beverly 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

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

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.
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Julie Banting

Director, Career Development

Julie is passionate about career development and views every student story as unique and interesting. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Master of Industrial Relations at Queen’s. She worked in human resources in Toronto for several years before completing her Master of Education in Counselling at U of T. For the past 17 years, she has worked in career centres at the University of Toronto, UTSC, and Smith School of Business. In 2012, she joined the Career Development Office at Queen’s Law where she has worked as a Career Counsellor and Director of Career Development.

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Oishik Bhattacharya

Oishik Bhattacharya

My fascination with law’s role in ensuring checks and balances began in high school, particularly during my volunteer work with Aviyana Club following devastating cyclones in West Bengal. This experience revealed the limitations of administrative and human rights bodies, sparking my interest in law. At law school, I delved into constitutional, administrative, and human rights laws through organizing moot courts, interning at Rural Litigation Entitlement Kendra, and conducting research under Dr. Rajalaksmi Wagh and Dr. Jaykumar Bhongale.

Graduate Student
Daekwon Blair

Daekwon Blair

My academic and professional journey has been shaped by a deeply rooted interest in the intersections of power, justice, labour and employment law. This interest has grown in tandem with the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in Canada and the global market. Holding a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Political Studies and a Master of Industrial Relations (MIR) from Queen’s University, I have developed a nuanced understanding of Canadian labour and employment legal frameworks and the principles that underpin effective industrial relations (IR).

Graduate Student
Lindsay Board

Lindsay Board

Adjunct Lecturer

Lindsay Board practices criminal and constitutional law at Daniel Brown Law with a focus on complex, serious offences. She regularly appears at all levels of court in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Lindsay Burrows

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.

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Christa Bracci

Adjunct Lecturer

Christa Bracci teaches legal research and writing and legal practice skills.  She currently teaches Law 321 Advanced Legal Research to upper year JD students and Law 881 Legal Research for Scholarship to law graduate students.  She has taught first year legal research and writing, introduction to legal practice skills, and occasionally lectures in Law 201 on intellectual property law and in Law 135 on the legal research process. She is currently developing the legal skills curriculum for the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law.

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Katharine Brickman

Katharine Brickman

Adjunct Lecturer: Law and Policy in the Cannabis Industry

Katharine Brickman is an instructor in Cannabis Law and Policy at the Queen's Faculty of Law. A proud Queen's alumna, Katharine has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature from Queen's Faculty of Arts and Science, and earned her JD at Western Law. Katharine has legal and policy work experience in both the public and private sectors, with a focus on the cannabis industry.  She has held positions as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), and as Legal Counsel at Aurora Cannabis.

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Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown

Adjunct Lecturer

Daniel Brown is a criminal defence lawyer and lead counsel at Daniel Brown Law LLP, repeatedly recognized as one of Canada’s 10 best boutique criminal law firms by Canadian Lawyer Magazine.  Since his call to the bar, Daniel has devoted his practice to criminal, constitutional and regulatory law and has appeared at every level of court in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada as both an appellant and an intervenor.
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David Cahill

David Cahill

Adjunct Lecturer

From David: I have three degrees from Western University, including an Honours Bachelors of Arts in History (2013), a Masters of Art in History (2014), and my Juris Doctor (2017). I was called to the bar in 2018 and have worked exclusively in family law since that time. I also have a Masters of Law from Queen’s University (2020).

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Brett Capwell

Brett Capwell

Adjunct Lecturer

Brett Capwell is a Canadian tax lawyer and federal tax policy subject matter expert working for the Parliament of Canada’s non-partisan research service. Brett works directly for Parliamentary Committees – currently the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance – as well as individual Parliamentarians to provide confidential legal research, advice and analysis in all areas of taxation. This work has included national budgetary policy, personal and corporate tax measures, tax reforms and treaties, cryptocurrency regulation, and anti-money laundering policy.

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Anusuiya Chaulagain

Anusuiya Chaulagain

With over three years of experience as a practicing lawyer in Nepal, I have gained an understanding of the legal landscape in the country, particularly in Civil, Criminal, and corporate law. My hands-on experience has shown me that the practice of law is much more intricate and expansive than what is taught in law school. This realization has fueled my desire to further my academic career, deepen my expertise, and broaden my professional network.

Graduate Student

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
Gong Chen

Gong Chen

In my freshman year, after studying various public basic courses and general courses in various colleges, I was finally attracted by the logic and rationality of law and chose to enter the Law School of Shanghai University. During the process of studying law, I met great teachers and classmates who helped me move forward, especially in the field of business law. After graduating from Shanghai University, I decided to go abroad to broaden my horizons and go for further study.

Graduate Student
Adam

Adam Chisholm

Adjunct Lecturer

Adam D.H. Chisholm is a partner in McMillan LLP's Commercial Litigation Group in the firm's Toronto office. Adam is a skilled and tenacious litigator with expertise in regulatory and intellectual property litigation. Adam specializes in securities litigation. He has represented and advised clients involved in contested transactions, investigations and enforcement proceedings before the Ontario Securities Commission. He has also succeeded at trial in civil matters concerning securities blackout periods and corporate director responsibilities. 

Sessional Instructor
Hugo Choquette

Hugo Choquette

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.

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Staff

Sarah Clarke

Adjunct Lecturer

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

 

 

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Cossette-Lefebvre

Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre

Adjunct Assistant Professor and Fellow in Property Law

Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre is a lawyer, a PhD candidate in law at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct assistant professor and fellow in property law at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. He is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar (2021-2024) and a recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program in honor of Nelson Mandela (2021-2024). His dissertation offers innovative trans-systemic perspectives on the idea of self-ownership to explain a person’s rights over their body, image, voice, and personal information.

Sessional Instructor

Darryl Cruz

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

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Samuel Dahan

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
Colleen Dempsey

Colleen Dempsey

Adjunct Lecturer, 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

Lynn Desforges

Program Administrator

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Mary Ann Dietrich

Mary Ann Dietrich

Finance and Administrative Assistant, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

Mary Ann has been the administrative support for the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic since 2019.  She has a Business Certificate and many years of Administrative and Bookkeeping experience in both the private and public sector including ten years at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and a few years running the Bookstore Café in Camden East.  She moved here from the GTA in 2009 and has never looked back…except to see her grandchildren!

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Kexin Dong

Kexin Dong

I am a lawyer from China, specializing in handling civil and commercial litigation cases. Throughout my legal career, I have identified many biases within the current legal system, and I have continuously reflected on these issues. I believe that solving certain social and equity issues ultimately requires changes in the law. As I age, I increasingly realize that for some of the causes I've always dreamed of pursuing, if I don't act soon, my opportunities to pursue them may diminish.

Graduate Student
Sunita Doobay

Sunita Doobay

Adjunct Lecturer

Sunita Doobay is a partner at Blaney McMurtry LLP, a full-service firm located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a tax and trust lawyer, focusing on corporate planning, personal tax planning, wills, trusts and estates, and charities and not-for-profits. Her focus is on advising the multijurisdictional client. She sits on the National Award Committee of STEP Canada. She is past co-chair of and current senior advisor to the International Tax Committee of the ABA Section of International Law.

Sessional Instructor

Shai Dubey

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
Aileen

Aileen Editha

PhD Candidate in Law

Aileen (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and Robert Sutherland Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Graduate Inclusivity Fellow at the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs. Her doctoral thesis explores the recognition of property rights over human biological and genetic materials and its impact on women and racialised minorities. However, she is interested in and has written on other topics such as transplantation and blood banking.

Graduate Student
Amarachukwu Elekwa

Amarachukwu Elekwa

I’m an IP attorney doubling as an artist who loves researching the various intersections of Intellectual Property. My current research interest lies at the intersection of IP and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where I am exploring how IP can be leveraged to achieve broader social and environmental objectives. Pursuing an LLM at Queen’s University is a natural progression of my academic and professional journey.

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
Philip Enright

Philip Enright

Adjunct Lecturer

Philip Enright has practised criminal law exclusively as a Crown Attorney for 36 years. He prosecutes criminal cases in the GTA and for the last 15 years has been the Deputy Director of the Ministry of the Attorney General's Guns and Gangs Prosecution Office. He was appointed a wiretap agent in 1994 and provides legal advice and education to his colleagues and police investigators on all matters related to criminal investigations, procedures and prosecutions.
 

Sessional Instructor
Benjamin Ewing

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
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 class prize in the Queen’s Correctional Law Project [as it then was], Kathy clerk

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Wondwossen Firew

Wondwossen Firew

PhD Candidate

Prior to becoming a Mastercard Foundation Fellow and joining Queen’s University Faculty of Law in 2019, Wondwossen Firew held a position as an Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law of University of Gondar for 10 years. In addition to his academic post, he served the School of Law as its Dean. During the past six years, he held an administrative position, in addition to his academic position.

Graduate Student
Sarah Forsyth

Sarah Forsyth

Review Counsel Queen’s Legal Aid

Sarah is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Social Sciences, 2011) and Queen’s Law (JD, 2015). Following completion of articles, Sarah was called to the bar in 2018. Her law practice has included five years representing low-income Kingston residents in eviction hearings before the Landlord and Tenant Board and other administrative tribunals. Sarah teaches courses in Residential Tenancies Law and Advocacy to paralegal students in Loyalist College’s Paralegal program.

Sarah serves as Review Counsel for Queen’s Legal Aid.

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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
Marie-Emmanuelle

Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse

PhD Candidate

Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse is a doctoral student at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law, specializing in intimate partner violence. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of public health policies, feminist legal theory and criminal law. Her work has drawn the attention of national and international organizations including Plan International, The Canadian Women’s Foundation and The United Nations (UN Women). Stemming from the realization that her own studies have taught her the importance of the democratization of research, she created The Sis (@the.sisofficial on TikTok and Instagram) in 2021. The community around this channel has grown to over 400K people from all over the world. For this contribution, she was recognized as one of the 15 most influential Quebecers of 2022.
Graduate Student
Samantha

Samantha Gordon

Samantha Gordon is a commercial litigator in McMillan LLP’s Toronto office. She has a complex commercial, corporate and securities litigation practice. Samantha has experience in M&A litigation, shareholder disputes, governance issues, proxy contests, complex contract disputes, antitrust class action defence and commercial arbitration. Samantha has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada and all levels of court in Ontario, including the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Commercial List. She has also appeared before domestic and international arbitration tribunals.

Sessional Instructor

Kevin R. Gray

Adjunct Lecturer

Kevin R. Gray is an international trade lawyer employed with the Government of Canada. He has worked for 18 years at the Trade Law Bureau in Ottawa , with a focussed practice on WTO dispute settlement, international trade agreement negotiations, and advisory work.  His areas of specialization centers on the relationship between international trading rules and domestic measures including those concerning climate change, sanitary and phyto-sanitary health, intellectual property, Indigenous peoples, and government procurement.

Sessional Instructor
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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

Bryan Guertin

Adjunct Lecturer

Bryan is an Assistant Crown Attorney at the Durham Region Crown Attorney's Office, practicing criminal litigation. Bryan practices in the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice, prosecuting criminal offences ranging from drinking and driving to homicides. 

Sessional Instructor
Deb Haak

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.

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Terry Hancock

Terry Hancock

Adjunct Lecturer

Professor Hancock is Counsel, Judicial Education with the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa . She received her Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Ottawa,  a Bachelor of Law degree from Queen's University and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Toronto before embarking on a civil litigation and public law career in Toronto .  Professor Hancock has written on a wide number of topics, including the regulation of telecommunications, LGBTQI2S+ equality, judicial review, and class proceedings.

Sessional Instructor

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.
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Gail Henderson

Gail Henderson

Allgood Professor in Business Law

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.

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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.

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Susan M. Hutton

Susan M. Hutton

Adjunct Lecturer

Before teaching at Queen’s Law, Susan Hutton was a senior partner in the Competition & Foreign Investment Group at Stikeman Elliott LLP, where she practised for 32 years.
Sessional Instructor
Ardi Imseis

Ardi Imseis

Associate Professor; Co-Academic Director, International Law Program

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
Jarvis

Morgan Jarvis

Adjunct Lecturer

Morgan Jarvis is an instructor in Intellectual Property Law at Queen’s University Faculty of Law

 

Sessional Instructor

Kelly Jordan

Adjunct Lecturer

Kelly is an adjunct Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. Kelly is the Principal Lawyer with Kelly D. Jordan Family Law Firm in Toronto, Ontario. Kelly practises in the areas of Family and Fertility law, Wills and Estates. She is certified as a Specialist in Family Law by the LSO and is an Accredited Family Mediator (OAFM). Her particular expertise is in family law issues pertaining to the gay and lesbian community and assisted human reproduction. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys. She was co-counsel on Baker v.

Sessional Instructor

Lanny Kamin

Adjunct Lecturer

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

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Joshua Karton

Joshua Karton

Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Program Development), Professor

Joshua Karton teaches and writes about commercial dispute resolution (especially international arbitration), international and comparative contract law, international economic law, transnational legal theory, globalization and law, and linguistic issues in law. In general, his writing explores what happens when private actors from different backgrounds—legal, cultural, and linguistic—meet in the international legal arena.
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Lisa Kelly

Associate Professor

Lisa M. Kelly is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, where she teaches criminal law, evidence, criminal procedure, and sexual and reproductive justice. 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.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Lisa Kerr, Associate Professor, Queen’s Law

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.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Alyssa King

Alyssa King

Associate 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

Dhaman Kissoon

Dhaman Kissoon is an instructor in Racism & Canadian Legal Culture at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Sessional Instructor
Erik S. Knutsen

Erik S. Knutsen

Professor

Erik S. Knutsen's areas of academic interest include insurance law, tort, civil procedure and the civil litigation system, health law and medical liability. 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. He served as Associate Dean (Academic) from 2018-2020.

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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.

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Nicolas Lamp

Nicolas Lamp

Associate Professor; Academic Co-Director, International Law Program; Director, Queen’s Institute on Trade Policy

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 serves as the Academic Co-Director of the International Law Program, an eight-week summer course that Queen’s Law offers in Europe during the summer term.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research

Michael Landell

Instructor: Law and Policy in the Cannabis Industry

Sessional Instructor

Rachel Law

Rachel Law is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. Rachel received both her undergraduate degree and her Juris Doctor from Queen’s. She is now a staff lawyer at a Community Legal Clinic.
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Michele Leering

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.

Sessional Instructor
David Lepofsky

David Lepofsky

Visiting Scholar

David Lepofsky holds an LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School 1979), LL.M (Harvard Law School 1982), and honorary doctorates from Queen’s (1999), University of Western Ontario (2006), Law Society of Ontario (2016), and Brock University (2022). One of Canada’s most prominent blind lawyers, he advocates for the enactment and implementation of new legislation in Ontario to remove and prevent barriers against people with physical, mental, or sensory disabilities. One of his missions is to educate law students on how to effectively serve the legal needs of clients with disabilities.

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Visiting Faculty

Shirley Levitan

Adjunct Lecturer

Shirley has been practicing law in Toronto since 1988, with an emphasis on family law since 1991, incorporating fertility law in 1996. She is a member of the Bars of Ontario (1988) and New York State (1991). She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 1981 and her law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1987. She obtained her mediation certification from the Law Society of Ontario (formerly, the Law Society of Upper Canada), and has had extensive training in collaborative practice in the context of divorce and separation.

Sessional Instructor
Richard Lindgren

Richard Lindgren

Richard Lindgren, B.A. (w.Dist.), LL.B., is a staff lawyer at the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), which is a specialty legal aid clinic based in Toronto. After graduating from Queen’s Faculty of Law, he joined CELA in 1986 and represents individuals, public interest groups, and First Nations before tribunals and in trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. His casework focuses on air and water pollution, environmental rights, environmental assessment, and administrative and constitutional law.

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Anastasia M. Lintner

Anastasia M Lintner

Anastasia M Lintner is a passionate public interest environmental advocate specializing in environmental assessment, conservation and water law, and Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights.
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John Luscombe

John Luscombe

Staff Lawyer, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

John Luscombe has been a staff lawyer for the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic (QPLC) since 2021. Prior to that, he completed his articling placement with QPLC.

Staff
Nicole Lynn

Nicole Lynn

Career Development Coordinator

Nicole is passionate about helping Queen’s Law students navigate their career journeys and build meaningful connections along the way. She completed her undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, NS, and earned a diploma in Human Resource Management from McMaster University. 

She loves being part of the Queen’s Law community and enjoys connecting students, employers, and alumni to create opportunities for growth and success. Outside of work, Nicole can often be found hiking or behind her camera, exploring her love of photography.
 

Staff
Helena Afua Ayensu Maikido

Helena Afua Ayensu Maikido

My decision to pursue a legal career was motivated by my desire to make an impact in the society and in doing so I have developed a passion for entrepreneurship and business leadership as I advanced in my career. I obtained my LLB from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and proceeded to obtain my qualifying certificate to enable me work as a lawyer in Ghana. Prior to my legal career, I worked in the banking industry where I advised entrepreneurs on various finance instruments and their impact on their finances and business prospect.

Graduate Student
Jacob Mantle

Jacob Mantle

Jacob is an international trade lawyer representing both Canadian and international clients in customs, anti-dumping and countervailing duty, procurement, and investment dispute litigation. Jacob provides advice to businesses on customs compliance, controlled goods, procurement, economic sanctions, and export controls, and to government clients on free trade agreements and WTO matters.
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Mary Jo

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.

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Kevin McElcheran

Adjunct Lecturer

Kevin McElcheran is an instructor in Contemporary Topics in Law: Insolvency Risk in Business Law at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

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karla

Karla McGrath

Assistant Dean, JD Program

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.

Administration
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Staff
John McIntyre

John McIntyre

Adjunct Lecturer

John McIntyre is a healthcare lawyer working at his own firm, McIntyre Szabo PC. Prior to this he was a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario (2015-2016) and an associate in the health law group of BLG, a large national law firm (2016-2022). John is a proud 2014 Queen's Law alumni and recently obtained his Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (2022) with a certificate in LGBTQ Public Health. John has been recognized as “One to Watch” by the Best Lawyers in Canada for the last three years.
 

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Justice Don McLeod

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Mary McPherson

Mary McPherson

PhD Candidate in Law

Mary McPherson is currently pursuing her PhD in Law at Queen’s University. Her research explores liberal politics of recognition and its critiques in relation to the current changes in Canadian legislation and common law affecting Aboriginal peoples, and the role of Indigenous philosophical revitalization in these legislative and judicial changes.

Graduate Student
Hiwot Abebe Mekuanent

Hiwot Mekuanent

PhD Candidate

Hiwot joined the Queen's University Faculty of Law in September 2018. She will be applying her doctoral work at Queen’s Law to help improve the lives of people with disabilities. Admitted into the school’s PhD program as an “exceptional faculty leader” from the University of Gondar in Ethiopia, she has received a Mastercard Foundation Scholarship at Queen’s University to complete her studies. Hiwot’s research focuses on why Ethiopia still has disability discriminatory legal and institutional frameworks against international human rights standards.
Graduate Student
Cherie Metcalf

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. 

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Justice Graeme Mew

Justice Graeme Mew

Justice Graeme Mew was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) in 2013, and has been a resident judge in Kingston since 2016.  He has been a sessional instructor at Queen’s since 2018, teaching International Sports Law and guest lecturing on advocacy, legal ethics and criminal law.  For the 2022-23 academic year, he was Jurist in Residence at Queen’s Law, on leave from the Court.  Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Mew was a member of the bars of England & Wales, Ontario and British Columbia.

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Pooja Mihailovich

Pooja Mihailovich specializes in advising on tax litigation and dispute resolution matters. She has appeared in significant cases at all levels of Court, and routinely represents clients in disputes before the Canadian tax authorities. In addition to tax controversy matters, her practice also includes advising on general corporate tax matters, and on Canadian tax issues particular to insurance organizations.

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Ryan Minor

Ryan Minor

Ryan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queens University. His primary research area concerns the use of the tax system to stimulate research and development in Canada.  His 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
Kate Mitchell

Kate Mitchell

Adjunct Lecturer

Kate Mitchell brings a strong commitment to justice and a depth of academic and professional experience in criminal and prison law.

Kate holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Public Administration from Queen’s University, and a Master of Laws (LLM) from UCLA, where she specialized in Criminal Justice and Prison Law. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) at the University of Toronto, and her research focus on prisons and the rule of law. She is a Trudeau Scholar and recipient of a Canada Graduate Scholarship–Doctoral Scholarship.

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Mike Molas

Law Career Counselor

Mike takes the same conscientious and impassioned approach to legal career counselling as he did to legal advocacy. He completed his undergraduate degree in Criminology (summa cum laude) from York University and his Juris Doctor (cum laude) from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. After articling with a leading criminal defence firm in Ottawa, he was called to the Ontario Bar in 2015. He returned to uOttawa Law as the Faculty’s Professional Development Counsellor before transitioning to his current role as Law Career Counselor with Queen’s Law.

Staff
Jane Mundy

Jane Mundy

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

Jane Mundy is Review Counsel at Queen’s Legal Aid and the Queen’s Family Law Clinic. She received her Juris Doctor from Queen’s University. Following private practice in Deep River, Ontario, Jane joined the Queen’s Law Clinics in 2020.  She is also an Academic Assistant for the Introduction to Legal Skills course at Queen’s Law and coached the Queen’s team for the Walsh Family Law Moot in 2023. She serves on the Law Week Committee for the Frontenac Law Association and as a member of the Kingston and Napanee Family Law Bench and Bar Committee.  

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Caseworker
Kimberly Murray

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
Jennifer Ng

Jennifer Ng

Adjunct Lecturer

Jennifer Ng is a lawyer with Templeman LLP in Kingston, Ontario. Practicing in all areas of general civil litigation, she has recent experience in defamation and summary SLAPP motions, summary judgment motions, contested estates matters, contract disputes and resolution of land and property conflicts. She also acts as prosecutor in the Ontario. 

Jennifer was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 2014 and joined Templeman LLP in 2015 after articling and practicing intellectual property litigation at an international law firm.  

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Stanley U. Nweke-Eze

Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor

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. His current research interests include Commercial Law, Dispute Settlement, International Economic Law, and Law and Development, as well as the economic relationships between Africa and Canada on the one hand and Africa and China on the other.

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Stuart O'Connell

Stuart O’Connell

PhD Candidate

Stuart O’Connell is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His thesis “Expanding the Role of Victims in Criminal Proceedings” examines whether the role and function of victims in Canadian criminal proceedings should significantly expand and, if so, how that change might occur.

Graduate Student
Richard Obeng

Richard Obeng

PhD Candidate

Richard is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada. His research and teaching interests focus on corporate law, corporate governance and securities regulations. His doctoral thesis, titled “Reforming the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Protection of Minority Shareholders in Controlled Publicly Listed Companies in Ghana”, evaluates the effectiveness of the existing legal regime in Ghana and proposes reforms informed by comparative and international best practices. 

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Osanic Teaser

Phil Osanic

Assistant Professor

Professor Philip M. Osanic has been teaching at Queen's Law (""Appellate Advocacy"") as well as Queen's University's Smith School of Business since 2003.  He has been a practicing lawyer and member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario for more than 30 years now.  Areas of legal practice these days include Contract Law, Tort Law (Professional Responsibility and Medical Malpractice) as well as Intellectual Property Law.

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Ivan Ozai

Ivan Ozai

Associate Professor and Queen’s Faculty Scholar in Tax Law and Policy

Ivan Ozai is Associate Professor and the inaugural Queen’s Faculty Scholar in Tax Law and Policy at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. He specializes in national, comparative, and international tax law and policy, focusing particularly on tax avoidance, tax competition, global tax justice, and the intersections of taxation, ethics, governance, and international law.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Ozturk

Fatih Öztürk

Professor Öztürk was born and raised in Istanbul. He is Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at Istanbul University, Faculty of Law.  He is currently working on public participation in constitution making, and application of check and balances in presidential systems. He holds an L.L.B from Istanbul University, Turkey, an L.L.M from California Western University, USA and an L.L.M from Queens University in Canada in 2005. He completed his Ph.D. in Istanbul University, Turkey.
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Visiting Faculty
Deepti Panda

Deepti Panda

PhD Candidate

Deepti has been practicing as an Advocate at the commercial bar of the Bombay High Court since 2007.  She has a broad commercial law practice in India, specializing in areas such as commercial litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy proceedings, partnership disputes, real estate and land matters, and estate and succession disputes.  She has been appointed as an Arbitrator in over 30 cases by the Bombay High Court and has expertise in conducting civil trials before both courts and arbitration tribunals.

Graduate Student
Bruce Pardy

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
Nandita Pateria

Nandita Pateria

As a civil services aspirant, a student of law and now a lawyer, I believe there is no end to the depth and volume of the legal field. Law is alive and continuously growing, changing and taking on new forms. For a Lawyer, research and studying is never complete and it is always important to invest in expanding the reaches of your knowledge base. It means an opportunity to start the journey to dive deeper into a concept, an idea, a thought and examine its depth, width and extent.

Graduate Student
Michael Pratt

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
Paul Quick

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 floc

Staff

Aziz Rehman

Graduate Student
Richardson

Benjamin J. Richardson

A global specialist in environmental law, a Professor Benjamin J. Richardson is based at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He previously held a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, and earlier was a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.
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Visiting Faculty
Darryl Robinson

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
Joao Rocha

João Rocha

PhD Candidate

João Carlos Vieira Costa Cavalcanti Rocha is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His dissertation explores the normative democratic theory and constitutional law, including comparative perspectives.

He obtained an LLM at Queen’s University in 2019. His thesis revolved around an authoritarian era in the history of Brazil – the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas – and its relationship with anti-liberal legal thought.

Graduate Student
Roya Rouzbehani

Roya Rouzbehani

Assistant Dean, Graduate Studies and Professional Programs

Roya Rouzbehani is a visionary leader with over 15 years of distinguished experience in academia, administration, and program innovation. As the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Professional Programs at Queen’s Law, Roya brings a dynamic blend of collaborative and entrepreneurial leadership. She is committed to driving academic and operational excellence, fostering innovation and inclusivity, and enhancing the quality and reach of professional programs.

Administration
Staff
Ananya Sanchita

Ananya Sanchita

Growing up in Benapole, Bangladesh, a city close to the border, I witnessed firsthand the complex realities of migration. This exposure ignited my interest in immigration and refugee law, leading me to complete my LLB. My passion for legal research was further fueled by my active participation in national and international moot court competitions, including representing Bangladesh as a researcher in the US rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Graduate Student
Richard Sauvé

Richard Sauvé

Inreach/ Outreach Community Legal Worker, Queen's Prison Law Clinic

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

Linda Smith

Director, Family Law Clinic

Staff
Martin Sorensen

Martin Sorensen

Martin Sorensen is a Senior Director in the Tax Legislation Division of the federal Department of Finance.  Prior to that, Martin spent more than 25 years as a student, associate and partner in the Tax Department of Bennett Jones LLP, a prominent national law firm.  Martin has taught Tax and Corporate Tax at Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law for a number of years, and is a contributing editor of Taxation of Corporations, Partnerships and Trusts, 6th Edition (Thomson Reuters).  He is also a former member of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and is the former Chair of the Tax Section of the Ontario Bar Association.
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susan sorensen

Susan Sorensen

Term Adjunct Lecturer

Susan Sorensen is a senior lawyer and employee relations specialist. She brings over 25 years’ experience in the practice of labour and employment law, both in private practice and in-house environments. 

Susan began her career and rose to become a partner in the employment law group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. Subsequently, she became a Director at Macquarie North America, where she led the Canadian labour relations and HR teams. Susan continues to act as a consultant for Macquarie on select matters. 

Faculty Members: Teaching
Deanne Sowter

Deanne Sowter

Adjunct Lecturer

Deanne Sowter is a doctoral candidate and Vanier Scholar at Osgoode, and she holds a McCarthy Tetrault Fellowship in Professional Ethics at Queen’s.

Professor Sowter’s research focuses on legal ethics, family law, gender-based violence, feminist legal theory, tort law, and evidence law. With her current funding, she is studying lawyers’ ethics in relation to myths and stereotypes in family violence cases.

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Justice Stratas

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

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Vanisha Sukdeo

Vanisha Sukdeo

Assistant Professor

Vanisha Sukdeo works as an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School as well as in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research is located at the intersection between corporate law and labour & employment law. Vanisha was Called to the Ontario Bar in 2007 after completing her articles with a union-side labour law firm and in-house at a union. Vanisha completed her Doctorate at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario. She received her LL.M. from Osgoode, LL.B.

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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
Carolyn Tanner

Carolyn Tanner

Carolyn studied psychology and health at Queen’s University and graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Western Ontario. Carolyn has worked for the advancement of human rights, strengthened rule of law, and increased access to justice in Nepal, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Uganda, and, most recently, in Canada.

Graduate Student
Gregory Tardi

Gregory Tardi

Adjunct Lecturer

Gregory Tardi, DJur., is the instructor for the 2021-2022 version of the course on Election Law. He is a former federal public servant and the author of several books on Political Law and Election Law.
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Jean Thomas

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
David Tice

David Tice

David Tice is an adjunct lecturer teaching Advanced Criminal Law.

David attended Queen’s Law and graduated with an LL.B. in 2004. He began his legal career at Greenspan Partners working with Edward Greenspan, Q.C. as trial and appellate Counsel. While at Greenspan Partners David’s law practice focused on the defence of complex white-collar criminal litigation, extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance matters, and quasi-criminal litigation. He appeared at every level of Court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Virginia Torrie

Virginia Torrie

Visiting Scholar

Professor Virginia Torrie is a leading expert in banking, insolvency, and financial law, and a highly regarded legal historian. She previously served as Associate Dean and Chair of the Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law and has held appointments at the University of Saskatchewan, Australian National University, University of Cape Town, and the National University of Singapore.

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Visiting Faculty
Ashwini Vasanthakumar

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
Dean Mark Walters

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
Reakash Walters

Reakash Walters

Visiting Scholar

Reakash Walters is a Canadian lawyer and doctoral candidate at Berkeley School of Law and a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Her scholarship concerns the constitutive power of race in criminal legal institutions. Her doctoral research is generously supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a full Robbins JSD Fellowship.

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Visiting Faculty

Christopher S. Waters

Adjunct Lecturer, Law 207/707 - International Law

Christopher Waters was born in Hamilton, Ontario.  In 1973, following an unanticipated early departure from secondary school, he enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces and spent the next 28 years in a variety of roles and appointments in the Army.  He participated in exercises and operations in Canada and in Australia, Norway, Germany and Cyprus.  He was initially trained and employed as a reconnaissance patrolman, an anti-tank guided missile gunner and, after having earned an officer’s commission, was employed as an armoured reconnaissance troop leader, an armoured squadron c

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Grégoire Webber

Grégoire Webber

Professor of Law and Philosophy

Grégoire Webber, M.S.M., is Professor of Law and Philosophy. His research is in the areas of human rights, public law, and philosophy of law.

Professor Webber is a graduate of McGill University with bachelors of civil law and common law and of the University of Oxford with a doctorate in law, where he studied as a Trudeau scholar. He clerked for Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada and, as a student, for Justice André Rochon of the Quebec Court of Appeal. 

Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Julia Webster

Julia Webster

Julia is a disputes and regulatory lawyer with experience in foreign corrupt practices and international trade. She advises Canadian and international businesses on corporate commercial disputes, investigations, regulatory compliance, anti-corruption laws, and political law.
Sessional Instructor

Julia Webster

Sessional Instructor
Jacob Weinrib

Jacob Weinrib

Associate Professor

Jacob Weinrib is an Associate Professor at the Queen’s Faculty of Law. He teaches and researches constitutional law, administrative law, and legal theory. Weinrib is the author of two books, Dimensions of Dignity: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Impasse of Constitutional Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025). His articles have appeared in the Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law & Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Ratio Juris, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Supreme Court Law Review, and the University of Toronto Law Journal.
Faculty Members: Teaching and Research
Scott Wilkie

Scott Wilkie

Scott Wilkie is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and also a Senior Counsel at the law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He is widely published and has lectured and taught in many areas of taxation, notably international taxation and tax policy. He is also a co-director of the Osgoode Hall Law School Professional LL.M. in Tax Law and teaches a course in trade and tax policy called WTO and Tax Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna Austria, in the LL.M. program in international tax law. Professor Wilkie is the most recent former vice-chair of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association, and formerly has served as president of the Canadian branch of the International Fiscal Association, a governor and chair of the Canadian Tax Foundation, chair of the Tax Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), joint chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the CBA and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (now Canadian Professional Accountants), and co-chair of the Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law.
Sessional Instructor
Bill Wu

William (Bill) Wu

Adjunct Lecturer

William (Bill) Wu is a lawyer at the firm McMillan LLP with a wide practice in competition law and international trade law. Bill’s competition law practice encompasses the full range of competition law matters, including merger reviews, supplementary information requests, competition litigation, internal investigations, cartel defence and class actions.
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Robert Yalden

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, and Co-Editor in Chief of the Canadian Business Law Journal. 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.

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