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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.
Jane Thomson, Vanier Scholar

Queen’s Law Vanier Scholar focuses research on legal reform

July 4, 2016
“I have always been interested in legal reform”, says Jane Thomson, a PhD student in Law and a 2016 recipient of a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship valued at $50,000 for each of the next three years. Previously a family lawyer in Toronto and Ottawa, her research at Queen’s now focuses on how to affect progressive legal reform using private law doctrines.
Halldor Bjarnason, Law’89 (Photo courtesy of UFV)

Law’89 advocate for people with disabilities awarded honorary degree

June 29, 2016
Born with cerebral palsy, Halldor Bjarnason, Law’89, has had to overcome many obstacles, but along the way he has also thrived in his 25-year law practice and in serving the community. He’s a lawyer with Access Law Group, an advocate for people (particularly lawyers) with disabilities and the founding chair of the Law Society of British Columbia’s Disability Working Group. This spring, the University of Fraser Valley presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Dean Bill Flanagan, at the bench dedicated to the memory of Professor Stan Corbett in Macdonald Hall’s west-side courtyard, with Law’16 Council members (back row) Andrew Sapiano, Sierra Bilyk and Victoria Strachan, and (front row) Kaisha Thompson, and Jessica Spindler.

Law’16 pays tribute to school’s longest-serving associate dean

June 23, 2016
On June 3, students, faculty and staff gathered in the Macdonald Hall courtyard with the family of the late Professor Stan Corbett, LLB’95 (BA’66, MA’72, PhD’82) to honour his legacy and his many contributions to Queen’s Law. Members of the Class of Law’16, who graduated later that day, had chosen as their class gift a memorial bench to commemorate their much-loved professor and mentor.