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Steve Shamie, Law’86, managing partner at Hicks Morley, has a discussion with Queen’s Law students about working in a management-side labour and employment law firm.

CLCW fundraising surpasses $1-million goal

August 15, 2016
Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW), the first of its kind in Canada, has reached another milestone. The generosity of alumni, friends, law firms and other organizations has pushed donations over the top of the school’s goal of $1 million for the CLCW. Among this year’s targeted contributions were gifts of $50,000 each from Lancaster House and Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP.
Julie Harmgardt, Law’16

Legal Leaders for Diversity honour new grad

August 11, 2016
While she’s just starting her legal career, Julie Harmgardt, Law’16, has already made her mark in promoting awareness, education and support for young adults living with hidden, chronic illnesses. On August 9, she was awarded a $3,000 scholarship from Legal Leaders for Diversity (LLD), a group of Canadian General Counsel who support the creation of a more inclusive legal profession.
Stephanie Bishop, Law’17, at the General Assembly of the United Nations Headquarters in New York during her 2015 summer internship supported by Torys

Torys renews Public Interest Internship Program

August 8, 2016
Since 2007, Torys LLP has funded internships for more than 70 Queen’s Law students at a wide variety of international and domestic agencies. With a $250,000 gift this year from the firm and its Queen’s alumni and friends, the Torys Public Interest Summer Internship Awards have been renewed. Scores of future students will have the same opportunity to spend the summer between first- and second-year law developing their legal skills while working for public-interest organizations around the world.
2016 Lexpert Zenith Award winners Scott Jolliffe, Law’76, and Frank Walwyn, Law’93

Lexpert celebrates two Queen’s Law grads for promoting diversity and inclusion

July 29, 2016
For this year’s Zenith Awards, Lexpert has honoured those who have advanced diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and in society. Among the winners are Scott Jolliffe, Law’76, Gowling WLG’s Head of International Development and former CEO, and Frank Walwyn, Law’93, a partner with WeirFoulds in Toronto.
Professor Samuel Dahan, Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union, will join Queen’s in July 2017

New hire a major boost for Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace

July 21, 2016
The Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW) continues to grow, with the appointment of an expert on labour law and competitiveness in North America and Europe. Samuel Dahan is an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University, affiliated with Harvard Law’s Program on Negotiation, and a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He will be joining Queen’s Law in July 2017.
Professor Kevin Banks, shown (far right) at a 2015 CLCW event, is hosting the Centre’s upcoming conference “Frontiers of Human Rights in Canadian Workplaces.”

Queen’s Law to host Toronto conference on human rights in the workplace

July 18, 2016
On September 16, the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW) conference, titled “Frontiers of Human Rights in Canadian Workplaces,” will bring leading-edge research to practitioners and policy-makers. Labour and employment lawyers, labour relations specialists, government officials, academics and students will hear in-depth analysis of how rights to reasonable accommodation of disability, religion and family status affects employers, employees an unions in Canadian workplaces today.
The Annotated Federal Interpretation Act by Professor Nancy McCormack is the third book she has published in the last three years.

Queen’s professor’s new book annotates the Act used to interpret other Acts

July 13, 2016
After almost two years of effort, Queen’s Law professor and librarian Nancy McCormack, along with co-author Melanie R. Bueckert, are seeing the fruits of their labour in print with Carswell’s publication of The Annotated Federal Interpretation Act. While the title may be prosaic, the book explores one of the most influential statutes in law: the Act that sets the rules, so to speak, for all other Acts.