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In celebration of the school’s 60th anniversary, Dean Bill Flanagan has kicked off a major campaign – QL60 – to raise funds for one of the Faculty’s top strategic priorities.

Keeping legal education financially accessible

October 3, 2017
In celebration of the school’s 60th anniversary, Dean Bill Flanagan has kicked off a major campaign – QL60 – to raise funds for one of the Faculty’s top strategic priorities. “We are committed to ensuring that a Queen’s Law education remains financially accessible to all qualified students, regardless of their means,” he told alumni at a gala dinner during Homecoming Weekend in September. “This has always been one of the school’s core values.”
Alumni and faculty celebrate Queen’s Law at 60 at a gala reception in Ban Righ Hall during Homecoming 2017. (Photo by Rai Allen)

Queen’s Law celebrates 60th anniversary at special homecoming

September 29, 2017
Sixty years after the first class of law students began their studies at Queen’s, over 250 alumni returned to campus to celebrate Queen’s Law at 60 Homecoming festivities. Throughout the weekend of on September 8–9, they caught up with old friends and the latest developments at their alma mater, reminisced about their school days and made new lasting memories.
Charlotte Osei, LLM’96, accepts the U.S. Embassy’s Women of Courage Award at a cocktail reception in Accra, Ghana, on Aug. 22.

‘Trailblazing’ LLM grad in Ghana honoured as a woman of courage

September 28, 2017
Charlotte Osei, LLM’96, Chair of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, has received the U.S. Embassy’s Women of Courage Award for 2017. Robert P. Jackson, USA Ambassador to Ghana, made the presentation to Osei, recognizing her management and administration of the 2016 Ghanaian election and her efforts to increase inclusion and civic engagement.
The Honourable Thomas Cromwell, Law’76, LLD’10, at the Queen’s Law at 60 symposium in his honour with panelists and co-editors of the forthcoming commemorative Supreme Court Law Review volume: (l-r) Owen Rees, Law’02; Stephen Aylward; Professor Lisa Kerr; Professor Stephen Coughlan; Michele Leering, PhD student; the Honourable John Evans; Pam Hrick, Law’13, and Dean Bill Flanagan. (Photo by Garrett Elliott)

‘Quintessential common law judge’ Cromwell celebrated at Queen’s symposium

September 25, 2017
At a symposium held in his honour, recently retired Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell, Law’76, LLD’10 (Mus’73) received heaps of praise, as well as some playful criticism, from friends and colleagues. The symposium, inspired by the upcoming publication of In Furtherance of Justice: The Judicial Life of Thomas A. Cromwell, a commemorative volume of the Supreme Court Law Review, was one of the events held on September 9 to help celebrate the Faculty of Law’s 60th anniversary.
Law’20 students at Orientation 2017

New JD students receive warm welcome into Queen’s Law community

September 15, 2017
Last week’s Orientation introduced some 200 new Queen’s Law students to the campus and to the peers who will be joining them on their journey through law school. “Orientation Week is all about making our new students feel welcome, excited, supported and equipped for the whirlwind of a year they have ahead of them,” says Siobhan Morris, Law’19, who chaired the committee that did just that.
Kayla Touma Zagwolski, Mike Adamek and Sarah Jane Black, all Law’17, are articling with the Queen’s Law Clinics this year. (Photo by Derek Cannon)

Articling students help thriving Queen’s Law Clinics meet increased demand

September 8, 2017
This year marks another milestone for the Queen’s Law Clinics (QLC): the hiring of the most articling students in its history. Since Queen’s Law’s five clinics were brought together in downtown Kingston in 2015, demand for all their services has increased significantly. Three full-time articling students, all Law’17 alumni, are needed to provide legal services to clients and to mentor student caseworkers.
"Katimmavik" ("Community place: Come Together") is one of 12 new study rooms at Queen’s University’s Stauffer Library named to increase the visibility of the Indigenous community. (Artwork by John Palmer and Manley Elwood Jones)

Queen’s Law issues call to Indigenous artists to create artwork for atrium

September 5, 2017
Students, instructors, guests and community members visiting Queen’s Faculty of Law will soon be welcomed into the building by a display of Indigenous artwork. The piece, which is part of the Faculty’s response to Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the final report of Queen’s Truth and Reconciliation Task Force, will directly reflect Indigenous peoples and their relationship to the law.
Professor Kevin Banks was appointed by the United States of America and the Republic of Guatemala to chair the international arbitral panel in the case of alleged non-compliance with labour provisions of an international trade agreement between the parties.

Landmark trade and labour ruling denies U.S. complaint; decision of panel led by Queen’s Law professor

August 30, 2017
Professor Kevin Banks had the honour to chair the first ever state-to-state arbitration of an international labour law dispute and his panel released its final report this summer. The subject: a dispute between the United States and Guatemala under the Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement on whether Guatemala had failed to enforce its own labour laws and whether that had affected U.S.-Guatemala trade.