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Winners of the 2023 national Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot are Queen’s Law team members Professor Bita Amani; Cavina Tsoi, Law’24; Nosheen Hotaki, Law’24; Lauren Daly, Law’24; and Liran Yefet, Law’23; and Ingrid Kao,Law’23.

Queen’s team wins Fox IP Moot

Queen’s Law mooters have brought home the Harold G. Fox Cup and all the oralist prizes from the national intellectual property competition.

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Like millions of Ukrainians coping with daily disaster, this little girl waiting for her father to come home from the war has no idea that international lawyers and tribunals are busy amassing evidence for the inevitable reckoning.

Will it be law that ends the war?

On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look back on seven faculty experts’ perspectives from last summer on how law can be used to end the war and to address weaknesses in social, economic, and political policies.

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Enthusiastic business law alumni from the classes of 2017 to 2021 gathered for the QBLP Garden Party hosted by Associate Dean Mohamed Khimji, Queen’s Business Law Program Director, in Prince Edward County in June 2022. (Photo by Eightbyten)

Queen’s Business Law Program scales up

Donations and faculty hires generate increasing returns on investment for this generation of business-minded law students.

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BLSA-Queen’s member Jodeen Williams (left) and Kate Dossetor (right), both Law’23 students coached by Professor Lisa Kelly (middle), participated in the Julius Alexander Isaac Moot on Feb. 2 at the Ontario Court of Appeal housed in Toronto’s Osgoode Hall.

Mooters engage in critical race theory

Queen’s team competes in the Isaac Moot, participating in a constructive debate about how the legal system and the state are failing racialized and Black populations.

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Rob Frater, KC, Law’84, former Chief General Counsel of Justice Canada, presents “The Two Michaels, the Donald, and the Tech Tycoon’s Daughter: Litigation in the Minefield of U.S.A. v. Meng” to Queen’s Law students, faculty, and Paul Steep, Law’80, counsel with event sponsor McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

Examining Meng Wanzhou case and Crown counsel’s changing role

Rob Frater, Law'84, Justice Canada’s lead counsel in U.S.A. v. Meng Wanzhou, explored what litigating a case in the centre of an explosive international controversy means for a lawyer’s professional ethics and for the rule of law.

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Professor Serena Mayeri (University of Pennsylvania) presents “Democracy, Equality, and Reproductive Justice: Abortion and Beyond,” the first Marcus-Matalon Lecture on U.S. Law at Queen’s Law. (Photo by Natalie Moniz-Henne)

U.S. law lecture examines reproductive justice

Professor Serena Mayeri (U. Pennsylvania) examines democracy, equality, and reproductive justice days after the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

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Steve McKersie, Law’98, is now in the second year of his six-year term as CEO of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, the first-ever multi-national law firm co-led by British and Canadian operations. (Photo by Rachael Reid)

Legacy of Gowlings giants continues

Steve McKersie, Law’98, CEO of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, shares how mentorship and relationship-building have shaped his career and leadership philosophy.

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BLSA-Queen’s President Uche Umolu, Law’25 (far left), Dainelle Barham, Law’23 (fourth right), and some of their fellow club members met last fall to start discussing the group’s activities for the year.

Recognizing Black Histories and Futures Month

BLSA-Queen’s will be offering and participating in events and activities that are academic-related and designed to reflect the beauty in the Black culture.

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Law’80 Careers in Business Law panelists Heather Bonnell, Law’20, Brad Allgood, Law’10, and Kelley McKinnon, Law’88, discuss the legal dimensions of environmental, social and governance issues and why they matter on Jan. 23 in the Queen’s Law Building. (Photo by Natalie Moniz-Henne)

Alumni provide insight on increasingly key boardroom priority

Law’80 Careers in Business Law panelists Heather Bonnell, Law’20, Brad Allgood, Law’10, and Kelley McKinnon, Law’88, discuss the legal dimensions of ESG issues and why they matter.

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Students in Professor Lindsay Borrows’ Indigenous Law in Practice class practice the Indigenous legal method of drawing out law from nature while canoeing on Elbow Lake.

Learning law on the land

Students in Professor Borrows' class practice the Indigenous legal method of drawing out law from nature at Elbow Lake.

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The first students selected for the new Criminal Appellate Internship program – Madeleine Cleland, Robin Ketchesen, Jason Kwast, Varda Anwar, and Amber St. Jean, all Law’23 – and their academic supervisor, Professor Lisa Kerr, in the Law Building atrium. (Photo by Natalie Moniz-Henne)

New program to help equip aspiring criminal lawyers

Students will be mentored by some of Canada’s leading defense lawyers while contributing to access to justice in the new Criminal Appellate Internship program.

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Oct. 16, 2019: A ceremony at the K’ómoks Bighouse in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, marks the first legally binding contract ratified by a Canadian Crown corporation through Indigenous legal traditions. (Photo by Media One)

Indigenous law and legal traditions finding new Canadian context

Six legal experts weigh in on revitalizing Indigenous people’s ways of knowing, being, and doing to carve out space for their laws.

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Faculty’s first professional program – in legal AI – sparks new master classes for legal and non-legal participants

Murray presents historical report on missing and disappeared Indigenous children

National research grants awarded to faculty for ‘insightful’ research

Borrows comments on human rights for a more just world

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