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Scott Fairley, Law’77

From ‘RISK’ to Reward, Queen’s Law’77 grad recognized with Award of Excellence

June 25, 2015
What began as strategy board games played with fellow law students and professors has grown into an esteemed career in public and private international law for one Queen’s alumnus. Scott Fairley, Law’77 (Artsci’74), has now been honoured for his leadership and expertise in the field. On June 16, the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) presented him with the 2015 Award of Excellence in International Law.
Patrice Walch-Watson, Law’91

Queen’s Law’91 alumna secures top legal post at CPP Investment Board

June 24, 2015
As a business lawyer at Torys LLP for more than two decades, Patrice Walch-Watson, Law’91, has played a leading role in advising some of Canada’s largest public, private and government businesses in a wide array of transactions. Now she is playing a new executive leadership role. On June 5, she began her appointment as Senior Managing Director & General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).
Public Rights, Private Relations

Contemporary human rights problem examined in new book by Professor Thomas

June 23, 2015
Can we say that a company like Gap or Nike is committing human rights violations if we find the factories in which its clothes are made are horribly abusive toward their workers? That’s just one example of the issues Professor Jean Thomas deals with in her new book Public Rights, Private Relations published by Oxford University Press.