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Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein explores the question of whether or not AI has the right to freedom of speech in U.S. law in this year’s Marcus-Matalon Lecture established by Stephen Marcus, Law’77, and Renee Matalon.
Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein explores the question of whether or not AI has the right to freedom of speech in U.S. law in this year’s Marcus-Matalon Lecture established by Stephen Marcus, Law’77, and Renee Matalon.

Does AI have the right to freedom of speech?

January 22, 2024
What Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, one of America’s foremost legal scholars, had to say when he spoke to a Queen’s Law audience about AI and the right to freedom of speech may surprise you.
Professor Debra Haak, PhD’19
Professor Debra Haak, PhD’19, has received three research grants to study how and why the word “sex” is used in Canada’s human rights laws, and whether and how “sex,” “gender,” and “gender identity” are conceptually distinct. Her findings will provide judges and legislators with a more nuanced basis for dealing with any tensions that arise around these rights. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Project aims to bring conceptual clarity to ‘sex’ and ‘gender’

December 4, 2023
Professor Debra Haak, PhD’19, has received three research grants to study how and why the word “sex” is used in Canada’s human rights laws, and whether and how “sex,” “gender,” and “gender identity” are conceptually distinct.
Professor Joshua Karton (far right) and his co-authors, Hon. Barry Leon, Joel Richler, and Lisa Munro, received the 2023 Vancouver International Arbitration Centre prize.
Professor Joshua Karton (far right) and his co-authors, Hon. Barry Leon, Joel Richler, and Lisa Munro, received the 2023 Vancouver International Arbitration Centre prize for their article, “Arbitration Appeals on Questions of Law in Canada: Stop Extricating the Inextricable!” The article was published in the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration (March 2023), for which Karton is the Managing Editor and Queen’s Law students serve on the editorial board.

Karton makes case for clarifying ‘extricable error of law’

November 21, 2023
Professor Joshua Karton and three senior Canadian arbitration practitioners have co-authored an award-winning paper on the proper scope of appeals from arbitration decisions.
Professor Nicholas Bala is leading a multidisciplinary research team that will spend the next five years working on three interrelated projects that will study a variety of issues, including the long-term effects of shared parenting, litigation abuse, parental alienation, and responses to family violence in racially diverse communities. (Photo by Bernard Clark)
Professor Nicholas Bala is leading a multidisciplinary research team that will spend the next five years working on three interrelated projects that will study a variety of issues, including the long-term effects of shared parenting, litigation abuse, parental alienation, and responses to family violence in racially diverse communities. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Bala-led project aims to improve Canada’s family justice system

November 13, 2023
With a new SSHRC grant, Professor Nicholas Bala and his team are working to make the family justice system more responsive to the needs of all Canadians – especially children.