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Queen’s Law reveals shortlisted proposals for Indigenous Art Commission

March 1, 2018
The Indigenous Art Commission, launched by Queen’s Law in September 2017, has shortlisted three proposals. “The Indigenous community at Queen’s Law is excited to have a permanent visual representation of our heritage, culture and presences on campus,” says Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment and Support Co-ordinator and project committee member. “This art will reflect our history, present and future in Canada, and the evolution of law.”
Queen’s Law Transactional LawMeet team members Christina Kim, Dixon Sunthoram, Bharbara Parken and Felix Moser-Boehm outside the Georgetown University Law Center.

Queen’s becomes first Canadian law school to participate in Transactional LawMeet

February 27, 2018
A team from Queen’s Law spent February 23 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. taking on regional competition at the 2018 Transactional LawMeet. The three-member team was Christina Kim, MBA'18/Law’19, Felix Moser-Boehm, Law’18, and Dixon Sunthoram, Law’19. Bharbara Parken, Law’18 served as the team’s student advisor. The team was co-supervised by Amelia Miao Law’11, and Professor Mohamed Khimji.
Professor Jocelyn Downie of the Schulich School of Law will present the keynote address on a feminist’s perspective on medical assistance in dying in Canada.

Queen’s conference will ‘Press for Progress’ to close gender gaps

February 26, 2018
Gender parity is still 200 years away. That key finding from the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report has prompted the United Nations to adopt the theme “Press for Progress” for International Women’s Day 2018. It’s also the focus of the upcoming Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s (FLSQ) conference “(Re)Production: Inequalities of Gender, Racialization, and Class.” The two-day event takes place on campus on March 2 and 3.
Law’12 panelists (back row, 2nd–4th and 6th–8th left) Husein Panju, Brooke MacKenzie, Brittany Sargent, Sonia Beauchamp, Caity O’Connor and Jonah Goldberg in the faculty lounge with Dean Bill Flanagan (back row, 5th left) and Alumni Relations Committee students. (Photo by Viki Andrevska)

Law’12 grads return to discuss their varied paths to career success

February 23, 2018
At Queen’s Law, students past and present are part of a strong community of peers and mentors that begins at school and carries on after graduation. On February 2, six Law’12 alumni – Sonia Beauchamp, Jonah Goldberg, Brooke MacKenzie, Caity O’Connor, Husein Panju and Brittany Sargent – returned to their alma mater to discuss the diverse ways in which their careers have unfolded.
Professor Mark S. Dockstator presents his Lederman Lecture on “Reconciliation in Canada: Difference Perspectives” at Queen’s Law on February 5. (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)
Professor Mark S. Dockstator presents his Lederman Lecture on “Reconciliation in Canada: Difference Perspectives” at Queen’s Law on February 5. (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)

Inaugural Lederman Visitor offers innovative ‘four-sided’ view of ‘Reconciliation’

February 12, 2018
As Professor Mark S. Dockstator (the inaugural William R. Lederman Visitor to Queen’s Law) sees it, understanding Reconciliation and building a conceptual framework that will help all sides come to grips with the key issues is really all a matter of perspective.