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Project lead Yamen Fadel, Law’18 (front row, left), with members of the Legal Education for Refugees Project team.

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

January 27, 2017
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.
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New platform offers unique ‘snap’shot of law students’ lives

January 24, 2017
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.
Elizabeth Shilton, Senior Fellow, responds to a question during a previous Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace event.

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

January 20, 2017
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.
Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict is published by Oxford University Press.

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

January 11, 2017
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.”
Sean Ellacott, Law’01 (right), the new Queen’s Prison Law Clinic Director as of Jan. 1, 2017, with Paul Quick, Law’09, PLC Review Counsel, at the Queen’s Law Clinics in downtown Kingston. (Photo by Derek Cannon)

New leader expands Prison Law Clinic’s mandate and introduces students to litigation experience

December 23, 2016
With a new director taking over on January 2, Queen’s Prison Law Clinic (PLC) is gearing up to deepen its commitment to serving the needs of those incarcerated in the Kingston area’s six federal penitentiaries and enhance students’ real-life opportunities to provide legal assistance and representation to them. Sean Ellacott, Law’01, has been part-time review counsel with the PLC since September, supervising four students while finishing off cases at his private practice, Ellacott Law Office, in Kingston.
Jo’Anne Strekaf, Law’80, shown in 2008, is now Justice of the Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut appeal courts.

Triple appeal court appointments for Law’80 alumna

December 19, 2016
After judging on the Court of Queen’s Bench since 2007, Justice Jo’Anne Strekaf, Law’80, has been appointed to the Courts of Appeal for Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. She says she’s ready for the challenge, and colleagues say her intelligence and analytical skills suit her well for a role focused on questions of law rather than the facts of the case.