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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.
Katherine Prescott, Education Innovation Developer at Queen’s Law (Photo by Andrew Van Overbeke)

New education developer to foster innovative teaching and learning at Queen’s Law

August 24, 2017
Increasing student engagement through active learning is a top priority for Queen’s Law and now the school has its own in-house Education Innovation Developer. Katherine Prescott (BSc, MEng, BEd) started her new position on July 24, bringing more than 20 years of experience in designing and delivering courses at the secondary and post-secondary levels.
Kevin Guenther, Law’12 (back row, left), Brianna Guenther, Law’12 (front row, 2nd left) with baby Bennett, and Larry Wu, Law’13 (front row, right), met members of Law’20 at a welcome reception in Calgary on August 2.

Recent grads welcome new students from three provinces to Queen’s Law network

August 18, 2017
What’s it like to live in Kingston? What is life like at law school and after graduation? Alumni who graduated within the last six years answered these and other questions posed by members of the incoming Law’20 class at welcome receptions held in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa during the first two weeks of August.
Morgan Jarvis, Law’10, Director of the Queen’s Business Law Clinic

Intellectual property specialist expands Queen’s Business Law Clinic’s mandate

August 10, 2017
Since managing the Queen’s Business Law Clinic as a student eight years ago, Morgan Jarvis, Law’10 (Artsci’05, MSc’08), has developed an expertise for legal matters involving IP, technology innovation and business law. He’s been an associate with Gowlings (now Gowling WLG), VP of Marketing and Innovation Strategy with pro bono legal service provider AdviceScene Enterprises Inc., a Technology Transfer Officer with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a review counsel with the QBLC – and also an Olympic rower. On August 1, he returned to his alma mater as the clinic’s full-time director, ready to steer his crew of student caseworkers in delivering legal services to a broader client base of Kingston-area entrepreneurs, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
Catherine Latimer, CM, Law’78

Order of Canada honour for Law’78 grad

August 8, 2017
Catherine Latimer, Law’78, Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Canada (JHSC) and a fellow at the Broadbent Institute, says she was “surprised and humbled” to learn that she is among the latest group of distinguished Canadians to be named to the Order of Canada. Latimer earned the honour for her more than 40 years of “principled contributions to the development of criminal justice policy, most notably on issues related to youth justice.”