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Torys renews Public Interest Internship Program

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Queen’s Law Vanier Scholar focuses research on legal reform

“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.