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Queen's Law Venture Society wins Camaraderie Award

Queen’s Law Students’ Society honours outstanding teachers and student organizers

April 8, 2019
Celebrating their excellent instructors and the performances of their highly dedicated peers is how Queen’s Law students wind down the academic year. Teaching award winner Professor Jacob Weinrib credited his students for his honour: “The best part of my job is that I get to work every day with students who are bursting with ideas and energy and who want to use the structures that they study to make a better legal world.”
Through our Queen’s Prison Law Clinic, Director Kathy Ferreira, Law’01, and student caseworkers help ensure prisoners are treated fairly while serving their sentences, working with the most vulnerable inmates through disciplinary and Parole Board hearings.

Justice behind bars

April 3, 2019
Through our Queen’s Prison Law Clinic, Director Kathy Ferreira, Law’01, and student caseworkers help ensure prisoners are treated fairly while serving their sentences, working with the most vulnerable inmates through disciplinary and Parole Board hearings.
Professor Don Stuart is honoured for his significant contributions to criminal and evidence law by Professors Steve Coughlan (Dalhousie), Janine Benedet (UBC) and Lisa Dufraimont (Osgoode), panelists on the Queen’s Law Journal event “Contesting Criminal Law.” (Photo by Maggie Doherty)

Criminal law legend celebrated at special Queen’s Law Journal event

April 1, 2019
Professor Don Stuart is honoured for his significant contributions to criminal and evidence law by Professors Steve Coughlan (Dalhousie), Janine Benedet (UBC) and Lisa Dufraimont (Osgoode), panelists at the Queen’s Law Journal event “Contesting Criminal Law.” On Stuart’s reputation in the criminal law and evidence community, Coughlan summarized it best: “Among Canadian criminal academics, there’s Don – and then there’s everybody else.” (Photo by Maggie Doherty)
Melissa McKay, Law’14, and Samantha Wynne, Law’13, are two of the many experts headed to Herstmonceux Castle at the end of May to discuss “International Law at a Crossroads.” Melissa, a clinic supervisor, focuses her work at the intersection of feminist legal theory and international criminal law to better address impunity for sexual violence in conflict zones and transitioning societies. Samantha, a lawyer with Namibia’s Legal Assistance Centre, has conducted extensive research and analysis on gender-based

Young Queen’s Law grads poised to contribute international law perspectives at Castle conference

March 26, 2019
Melissa McKay, Law’14, and Samantha Wynne, Law’13, are two of the many experts headed to Herstmonceux Castle at the end of May to discuss “International Law at a Crossroads.” Having both started successful careers in human rights and humanitarian affairs, they have crafted impressive CVs working with judges of foreign supreme courts and international tribunals, United Nations bodies, and organizations that liaise with the UN.
Rachel Hung, Law’21, with her Shadow Program host, Sarah Spitz, Law’17, in Toronto’s Rayman Beitchman LLP, where Hung learned what it’s like to practice in a boutique firm. “Because of the relationship and conversations I had with Sarah, I now see her as a mentor who I can reach out to any time and who will always be happy to help.”
Rachel Hung, Law’21, with her Shadow Program host, Sarah Spitz, Law’17, in Toronto’s Rayman Beitchman LLP, where Hung learned what it’s like to practice in a boutique firm. “Because of the relationship and conversations I had with Sarah, I now see her as a mentor who I can reach out to any time and who will always be happy to help.”

Queen’s students experience a day in the life of a lawyer

March 25, 2019
Rachel Hung, Law’21, with her Shadow Program host, Sarah Spitz, Law’17, in Toronto’s Rayman Beitchman LLP, where Rachel learned what it’s like to practice in a boutique firm. “Because of the relationship and conversations I had with Sarah, I now see her as a mentor who I can reach out to any time and who will always be happy to help.”
Professor Beverley Baines

Queen’s Law professor to conduct in-depth legal analysis of Charter proportionality legacies of SCC Chief Justices

March 20, 2019
After Professor Beverley Baines analyzes Canadian cases to determine how the proportionality doctrine is applied and with what outcomes, she will compare them to similar jurisprudence from other countries to determine whether the doctrine of proportionality is disproportionately gendered globally.
The Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados is the site for “Law as an Engine for Development,” a conference co-organized by UWI, Queen’s Law and the Organization of American States.

Queen’s to co-host Caribbean conference on international business law and inclusive economic development

March 18, 2019
On March 29 and 30 at the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus in Barbados, a trio of Queen’s Law alumni are bringing together academics, high-level jurists, international law specialists and foreign ministry legal advisers to explore “Law as an Engine for Development.”