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PhD student Birhan Suadik

Benefit or barrier?

October 7, 2019
PhD student Birhan Suadik, a professor at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia, is aiming to influence his home government’s policy and law reform with his research, supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and three research fellowships.
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy, is a Professor of Philosophy cross-appointed to Law at Queen’s University. The SSHRC Gold Medal recognizes his interdisciplinary research on multiculturalism and minority rights.

Inspiring future generations

October 4, 2019
Professor Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University philosopher cross-appointed to Law, has earned a top Canadian honour for the social sciences.
Gabrielle Rekai, Law’21 (middle) with fellow interns and an Al Otro Lado staff member in Tijuana, where they helped migrants learn their legal rights, how the law applies to their individual cases, and what to expect throughout the process of seeking asylum in the U.S.
Gabrielle Rekai, Law’21 (middle) with fellow interns and an Al Otro Lado staff member in Tijuana, where they helped migrants learn their legal rights, how the law applies to their individual cases, and what to expect throughout the process of seeking asylum in the U.S.

Summer intern taught asylum seekers how to self-advocate

September 27, 2019
Gabrielle Rekai, Law’21 (middle) interned with the Al Otro Lado border-rights workshop in Tijuana, where she helped migrants learn their legal rights, how the law applies to their individual cases, and what to expect throughout the process of seeking asylum in the U.S.
Professor Lisa Kerr’s SSHRC-funded project, “Sentencing Racialized Defendants: Collective Experience and the Promise of a Fit Sanction,” will allow her to critically examine how the Gladue jurisprudence for Indigenous offenders is helping to frame the legal principles and evidentiary approaches for sentencing other racialized defendants.
Professor Lisa Kerr’s SSHRC-funded project, “Sentencing Racialized Defendants: Collective Experience and the Promise of a Fit Sanction,” will allow her to critically examine how the Gladue jurisprudence for Indigenous offenders is helping to frame the legal principles and evidentiary approaches for sentencing other racialized defendants. (Photo by Greg Black)

Our obligations at sentencing

September 25, 2019
Professor Lisa Kerr receives a SSHRC grant to study fit sentencing for racialized defendants.
In the first "Together We Are" blog of the year, Lauren Winkler, a Kanien’keha:ka student at Queen’s Law, talks about her journey relearning to love herself in the different roles of her life: daughter, sister, niece, grandchild, and friend.
In the first "Together We Are" blog of the year, Lauren Winkler, a Kanien’keha:ka student at Queen’s Law, talks about her journey relearning to love herself in the different roles of her life: daughter, sister, niece, grandchild, and friend.

Learning, unlearning and relearning

September 24, 2019
When Lauren Winkler, Law'20, thinks of university, or post-secondary education, or life for that matter, one word comes to her mind: opportunity.
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar’s SSHRC-funded research project, “Transitional Justice as Transnational Justice: partnering with diasporas to secure justice from afar,” will look at “what rights and responsibilities exiles have to the country they have left behind, as well as the responsibilities of their host country in facilitating justice for these individuals.”
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar’s SSHRC-funded research project, “Transitional Justice as Transnational Justice: partnering with diasporas to secure justice from afar,” will look at “what rights and responsibilities exiles have to the country they have left behind, as well as the responsibilities of their host country in facilitating justice for these individuals.”

Lasting peace from the outside in

September 16, 2019
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar studies the rights and roles of exile communities in a SSHRC-funded research project.
Professor Grégoire Webber has become a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.
Professor Grégoire Webber has become a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. The RSC promotes Canadian research and scholarly accomplishment, mentors young scholars, recognizes academic excellence, and advises governments, non-governmental organizations and Canadians on matters of public interest.

Queen’s Law professor inducted into Royal Society of Canada

September 11, 2019
Professor Grégoire Webber has become a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. The RSC promotes Canadian research and scholarly accomplishment, mentors young scholars, recognizes academic excellence, and advises governments, non-governmental organizations and Canadians on matters of public interest.