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New doctoral graduate and Mackesy Smye lawyer Devan Schafer (middle), LLM’19, PhD’24 – shown with Professor Colin Grey and supervisor Associate Dean Cherie Metcalf after successfully defenced his thesis – has developed a practical framework for a systemic way to explain individual decisions made by administrative boards and tribunals.
New doctoral graduate and Mackesy Smye lawyer Devan Schafer (middle), LLM’19, PhD’24 – shown with Professor Colin Grey and supervisor Associate Dean Cherie Metcalf after successfully defenced his thesis – has developed a practical framework for a systemic way to explain individual decisions made by administrative boards and tribunals.

New PhD grad makes case for recognizing systemic administrative injustice as a basis for judicial review

August 9, 2024
Devan Schafer, LLM’19, PhD’24, has developed a practical framework for a systemic way to explain individual decisions made by administrative boards and tribunals.
Ryan Minor, PhD’24, who received his doctoral degree from Queen’s on June 21, reflects on his time at Queen’s Law and explores arguments for and against Canada implementing a preferential tax treatment for intellectual property income that could spark a surge of innovation and productivity. (Photo by Bernard Clark)
Ryan Minor, PhD’24, who received his doctoral degree from Queen’s on June 21, reflects on his time at Queen’s Law and explores arguments for and against Canada implementing a preferential tax treatment for intellectual property income that could spark a surge of innovation and productivity. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

New PhD grad examines preferential tax treatment for IP income

July 3, 2024
Ryan Minor, PhD’24, reflects on his time at Queen’s Law and explores arguments for and against Canada implementing a preferential tax treatment for intellectual property income that could spark a surge of innovation and productivity.
Faculty Promotion

World-leading legal experts recognized as part of 2024 faculty promotions

June 12, 2024
Today Queen’s Law advanced its position as a national leader in innovative legal teaching and influential research with the promotion of eight faculty members. As part of the 2024 faculty promotions that take effect July 1, five associate professors have achieved full professor status, and three members have been awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor. 
Professor Ardi Imseis has written a thought-provoking new book, “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity,” published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Ardi Imseis has written a thought-provoking new book, “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity,” published by Cambridge University Press.

Imseis publishes timely new book on the UN and Palestine

April 16, 2024
Professor Ardi Imseis has written a thought-provoking new book, “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity,” published by Cambridge University Press.
Prof Debra Haak explains how and why can significant shifts in defining sex and gender in education and public policy alter human rights protections.
Professor Debra Haak’s article, “Shifts in how sex and gender identity are defined may alter human rights protections: Canadians deserve to know how and why,” is published in The Conversation.

Shifts in how sex and gender identity are defined may alter human rights protections: Canadians deserve to know how and why

April 11, 2024
Prof. Debra Haak explains how and why can significant shifts in defining sex and gender in education and public policy alter human rights protections