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Queen’s Law students support refugees in wake of U.S. travel ban

President Donald Trump’s recent ban on refugees has prompted action from the Queen’s Law Refugee Support Program (QLRSP). As part of the Write for Refugees program, the group has collected over 100 signed letters asking Minister of Immigration Ahmed Hussen to suspend the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement as legal challenges to these executive orders continue to come forward.

Queen’s Law welcomes Aboriginal applicants to campus

Saturday, February 11 of this year will see the introduction of a new feature in Queen’s Law Recruitment: the Aboriginal Applicant Open House. This full day of programming will introduce Aboriginal applicants to key members of the broader Queen’s Law community, starting with an opening prayer from the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre and continuing through to afternoon tours of the entire campus.

Queen’s PBSC program helps refugees adjust to life in Canada

A Queen’s Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) program is helping acclimatize recent immigrants in the Kingston area to the Canadian legal system. The Legal Education for Refugees Project sees students go to KEYS Job Centre or Kingston Community Health Centres to give legal education presentations to newly arrived, permanent-resident refugees in a classroom setting.

New platform offers unique ‘snap’shot of law students’ lives

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – now Snapchat has joined the array of social media channels used by Queen’s Law. The Faculty’s new foray into Snapchat – a photo-sharing service where photos vanish from the screen in 60 seconds, and from the service in 24 hours – has been launched to help bring prospective students closer to the Queen’s Law community and show them what the school has to offer. As the first Canadian law school to move into this new form of social media, Queen’s is at the forefront of communicating with its students, faculty and staff in new ways.

Queen’s to co-host Toronto symposium on law, work and family care

The intersection between work and family life is one of the most challenging issues confronting the law of the workplace. On February 17–18, Queen’s Centre for the Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW) is co-sponsoring a symposium, “Law, Work and Family Care,” to discuss how the law currently addresses these issues and how it can be reshaped.

Queen’s Law grad publishes ‘outstanding’ book on contemporary armed conflict

Brigadier-General (Ret’d) Ken Watkin, Law’80, LLM’90, was a military legal officer in the Canadian Armed forces for 28 years, finishing his career as the Judge Advocate General. He has now written a new book arising from his experience advising on international and domestic security operations. In its first review, Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict was called “outstanding” and “the most important single-author International Humanitarian Law (IHL) monograph written in many years.”