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Associate Dean Joshua Karton (right) in conversation with Professor Naoki Kanayama of Keio University during the International Academy of Comparative Law Congress held in in Fukuoka, Japan, where they participated in a panel on combatting corruption with public and private law.
Associate Dean Joshua Karton (right) in conversation with Professor Naoki Kanayama of Keio University during the International Academy of Comparative Law Congress held in in Fukuoka, Japan, where they participated in a panel on combatting corruption with public and private law.

Associate Dean puts Queen’s on the international comparative law map

September 6, 2018
Joshua Karton, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, played three key roles in the world’s largest comparative law event held in Fukuoka, Japan, where he was among 800+ presenters and attendees from more than 50 countries, working in all areas of public and private law.
Peter Brady, Law’96, Kristin Morch, Law’85, and Richard Tory, Law’89, are the newest members of the Dean’s Council, who want to use their talents and experience to support Queen’s Law and future generations of its students.
Peter Brady, Law’96, Kristin Morch, Law’85, and Richard Tory, Law’89, are the newest members of the Dean’s Council, who want to use their talents and experience to support Queen’s Law and future generations of its students.

Three distinguished alumni join board of strategic advisors for Queen’s Law

August 29, 2018
Peter Brady, Law’96, Kristin Morch, Law’85, and Richard Tory, Law’89, are the newest members of the Dean’s Council, who want to use their talents and experience to support Queen’s Law and future generations of its students.
Intern Tom Daechsel, Law’20 (right), with supervisor Michael Schweiger, Law’04, at RBC Investor & Treasury Services in Luxembourg. That’s where Tom not only learned about business regulations and transactions, but also “how the support students receive from the Queen’s Law community has no real geographical limits.”

Queen’s Law student helps lead global project for European financial institution

August 24, 2018
Thomas Daechsel, Law’20, spent the summer deeply invested in the laws of global finance. As an intern with the Royal Bank of Canada’s Investor & Treasury Services group in Luxembourg, he gained lots of practical experience working alongside the international organization’s legal team led by fellow grad Michael Schweiger, Law’04.
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar is focusing her current research on “the duties and rights that exiles have in the communities they’ve fled and the various roles they play in homeland politics.”
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar is focusing her current research on “the duties and rights that exiles have in the communities they’ve fled and the various roles they play in homeland politics.”

Meet Ashwini Vasanthakumar, one of seven new professors at Queen’s Law

August 20, 2018
Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar is focusing her current research on “the duties and rights that exiles have in the communities they’ve fled and the various roles they play in homeland politics.”
2018 Lexpert Zenith Award winners: (top row) Barbara Johnston, Law’93, George Begic, Law’92, Jeffrey Oliver, Law’01, (bottom row) Paul Litner, Law’88, and Daniel Michaluk, Law’97.
2018 Lexpert Zenith Award winners: (top row) Barbara Johnston, Law’93, George Begic, Law’92, Jeffrey Oliver, Law’01, (bottom row) Paul Litner, Law’88, and Daniel Michaluk, Law’97.

Five mid-career alumni celebrated for excellence in practice and social responsibility

August 15, 2018
Queen’s Law grads are once again recognized for outstanding achievements by Lexpert in its business magazine for lawyers.
Professor Noah Weisbord is working on his first book, “an insider’s account of the high-stakes fight to define the crime of aggression, now a prosecutable international crime." (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)
Professor Noah Weisbord is working on his first book, “an insider’s account of the high-stakes fight to define the crime of aggression, now a prosecutable international crime." (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke

Meet Noah Weisbord, one of seven new professors at Queen’s Law

August 13, 2018
Professor Noah Weisbord research involves the role of the criminal law in managing, reflecting or exacerbating intergroup conflict.