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Congratulations to our 2023 alumni honorees!

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Professors Darryl Robinson and Sharry Aiken are members of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice, which has received a 2023 Governor General’s Innovation Award as an exceptional and transformative innovation with a positive impact and a 2022 Impact Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for its contributions to building a “just and inclusive society.”(Photos by Greg Black)

Professors recognized for contributions to international justice

Professors Darryl Robinson and Sharry Aiken are members of an academic partnership honoured with a 2023 Governor General’s Innovation Award.

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Professor Debra Thompson (McGill) presents the keynote address “Roots, Routes, and Reckonings: On Blackness and Belonging in North America” at the International Women’s Day conference on “Radical Collaboration(s) for a Better World” hosted by Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s.

International Women’s Day conference focuses on eliminating inequalities

FLSQ’s IWD conference brought together scholars, advocates, and students to discuss collaborations needed to eliminate all forms of inequality for a better world.

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Vicarious Liability, a band of Law’23 classmates – singer Miranda Lacalamita, Zach Moon, Ari Derohanesian, Levon Mouradian, and Christina Papageneorgakopoulous – perform a stirring rendition of a hit by the Cranberries.

Lawlapalooza’23...something to sing about

Students and a prof showed off their musical talents at Lawlapalooza, performing before an enthusiastic audience to raise money for two Kingston-based charities.

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Blaine Favel, Law’90, a renowned entrepreneur, policy advisor, public advocate, and educator, received Queen’s Law’s 2022 J.A. (Alec) Corry Distinguished Alumni Award for success in fields outside the practice of law.

‘A person who has touched the lives of many’

Indigenous rights activist Blaine Favel, Law’90, dedicates his 2022 Corry Distinguished Alumni Award to ‘work still undone.’

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BLSA-Queen's members at the Violet King Women of Excellence Luncheon held on Feb. 17 during BLSA-Canada’s national conference in Halifax.

Learning, collaboration, and celebration

From mentoring to mooting and networking to profile-building, the Black Law Students’ Association-Queen's marked Black History and Futures Month in diverse and creative ways.

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Catherine Latimer, Law’78, Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Canada since 2011, received the Queen’s Law 2022 Cromwell Award for distinguished public service. It was her student experience with a Queen’s Law Clinic that started her lifelong mission to ensure justice for some of Canada’s most vulnerable, marginalized people.

Helping to reform Canada’s criminal justice system

For Catherine Latimer, Law’78, the John Howard Society of Canada's Executive Director, it was her student clinical experience that started her lifelong mission to ensure justice for some of Canada’s most marginalized people.

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Winners of the 2023 national Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot are Queen’s Law team members Professor Bita Amani; Cavina Tsoi, Law’24; Nosheen Hotaki, Law’24; Lauren Daly, Law’24; and Liran Yefet, Law’23; and Ingrid Kao,Law’23.

Queen’s team wins Fox IP Moot

Queen’s Law mooters have brought home the Harold G. Fox Cup and all the oralist prizes from the national intellectual property competition.

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Like millions of Ukrainians coping with daily disaster, this little girl waiting for her father to come home from the war has no idea that international lawyers and tribunals are busy amassing evidence for the inevitable reckoning.

Will it be law that ends the war?

On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look back on seven faculty experts’ perspectives from last summer on how law can be used to end the war and to address weaknesses in social, economic, and political policies.

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Enthusiastic business law alumni from the classes of 2017 to 2021 gathered for the QBLP Garden Party hosted by Associate Dean Mohamed Khimji, Queen’s Business Law Program Director, in Prince Edward County in June 2022. (Photo by Eightbyten)

Queen’s Business Law Program scales up

Donations and faculty hires generate increasing returns on investment for this generation of business-minded law students.

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BLSA-Queen’s member Jodeen Williams (left) and Kate Dossetor (right), both Law’23 students coached by Professor Lisa Kelly (middle), participated in the Julius Alexander Isaac Moot on Feb. 2 at the Ontario Court of Appeal housed in Toronto’s Osgoode Hall.

Mooters engage in critical race theory

Queen’s team competes in the Isaac Moot, participating in a constructive debate about how the legal system and the state are failing racialized and Black populations.

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Rob Frater, KC, Law’84, former Chief General Counsel of Justice Canada, presents “The Two Michaels, the Donald, and the Tech Tycoon’s Daughter: Litigation in the Minefield of U.S.A. v. Meng” to Queen’s Law students, faculty, and Paul Steep, Law’80, counsel with event sponsor McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

Examining Meng Wanzhou case and Crown counsel’s changing role

Rob Frater, Law'84, Justice Canada’s lead counsel in U.S.A. v. Meng Wanzhou, explored what litigating a case in the centre of an explosive international controversy means for a lawyer’s professional ethics and for the rule of law.

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