| Aboriginal Law: |
Bita Amani |
| Accident Law: |
Erik Knutsen |
| Canadian Legal System: |
Nancy McCormack |
| Civil Procedure: |
Erik Knutsen |
| Comparative Legal Traditions: |
Martha Bailey |
| Conflict of Laws: |
Martha Bailey |
| Constitutional and Administrative Law: [Including Public Law] |
Sharryn Aiken |
| Contracts: |
Martha Bailey |
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Corporate/Securities Law: |
William Flanagan |
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Criminal Law and Criminal Policy: |
David Freedman |
| Cyberspace Law: |
Art Cockfield |
| Elder Law: |
David Freedman |
| Environmental Law: |
Cherie Metcalf |
| European Union Law: |
Art Cockfield |
| Family & Children’s Law: |
Nick Bala |
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Feminist Legal Studies: |
Bita Amani |
| Financial Regulation: | Gail Henderson |
| Health Law: |
Bita Amani |
| Human Rights: |
Beverley Baines |
| Immigration/Refugee Law: |
Sharryn Aiken |
| Insurance: |
Erik Knutsen |
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Intellectual Property: |
Bita Amani |
| International Law: |
Sharryn Aiken |
| Labour Relations: |
Kevin Banks |
| Law and Economics: |
Kathleen Lahey |
| Law and Psychology: |
Nicholas Bala |
| Law and Society: |
Bita Amani |
| Law and Technology: |
Bita Amani |
| Legal Research: |
Nancy McCormack |
| Legal Theory, Jurisprudence & Political Philosophy: |
Bita Amani |
| Legislature and Legislation: |
Nancy McCormack |
| Privacy Law: |
Bita Amani |
| Property: |
William Flanagan |
| Remedies: |
Michael Pratt |
| Surveillance Studies: |
Bita Amani |
| Taxation: |
Art Cockfield |
| Torts: |
Bita Amani |
| Wills & Trusts: |
David Freedman |
Aboriginal Law
Hugo Choquette
Introduction to Legal Skills & Aboriginal Law
Hugo Choquette has a PhD from the Queen’s Faculty of Law. Before returning to Queen’s Law to pursue graduate studies, he practiced in a small law office in Napanee, Ont. His research interests include language and law, constitutional law, and Aboriginal law. Over the last few years, he has taught introductory law courses both at the Faculty of Law and at Smith School of Business.
Sessional Instructor
Cherie Metcalf
Associate Professor
Cherie Metcalf is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Faculty of Law, where she has been teaching since 2004. She has a Ph.D. in Economics, Queen’s LL.B. and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. Prior to coming to Queen’s she clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Arbitration
Joshua Karton
Associate Professor / Associate Dean, Graduate Studies & Research
Joshua Karton teaches and writes about international arbitration, comparative and international contract law, uniform law, globalization and law, international legal theory, and sociological analysis of law. His writing explores what happens when private actors from different backgrounds—legal, cultural, and linguistic—meet in the international legal arena.
Administration
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Beverley Baines
Professor
Beverley Baines is a Professor of Public and Constitutional Law with a passion for illuminating the legal strategies the patriarchal state deploys to deny women their right to equality which is guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Her passion dates from her involvement as a feminist constitutional consultant, first to the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women and then to the Ad Hoc Committee of Women on the Constitution during the Charter debates of 1980-1982.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Children’s Law
Nicholas C. Bala
Professor
Nicholas (Nick) Bala is an internationally recognized expert on issues related to children, youth and families in the justice system, and teaches in that area as well as Contract Law.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Civil Procedure
Erik Knutsen
Professor / Associate Dean, Academic
Erik S. Knutsen’s areas of academic interest include insurance law, tort, accident law, civil procedure and the civil litigation system. He is a co-author of Stempel & Knutsen on Insurance Coverage, one of the leading American insurance law treatises. His articles have appeared in top ranked Canadian, American and international journals. He is also co-author of the leading casebook on Canadian civil litigation and one of the core casebooks on American insurance law.
Administration
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Mary-Jo Maur
Assistant Professor
Professor Maur teaches teaches courses in family law and dispute resolution. Her research has focused on how the family law procedural system can better serve all parties in a family law dispute. She is a frequent invited presenter at a variety of top-level national legal fora, including the National Family Law Program and the National Judicial Institute. Professor Maur has twice been given the Law Students’ Society Teaching Excellence Award.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching
Comparative Law
Martha Bailey
Professor
Martha Bailey is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University, where she teaches Contracts, Family Law, and Conflict of Laws. She has also taught International Family Law in the Osgoode Hall Law School Professional LLM program and Comparative Law in the Bader International Study Centre Global Law Program. She was awarded the LSS Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Iowa, NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, India, Melbourne University, Emory Law School, and Vermont Law School.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Constitutional Law
Sharry Aiken
Associate Professor
Sharry Aiken is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law with a cross appointment to Cultural Studies. She is an expert on immigration and refugee law and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of precedent setting immigration cases.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Jacob Weinrib
Assistant Professor
Jacob Weinrib is an Assistant Professor at the Queen’s Faculty of Law. He graduated from the Combined JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he studied as a Vanier Scholar and received the David Savan Dissertation Prize. Before joining Queen’s, he held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the New York University School of Law as a Global Hauser Research Fellow in the Center for Constitutional Transitions (2013-4) and as a Dworkin-Balzan Fellow in the Center for Law and Philosophy (2014-2015). Weinrib is the author of Dimensions of Dignity: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Contracts
Lynne Hanson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Lynne Hanson teaches in a variety of subjects for Queen's Law, including Torts, Criminal Law, Contracts Law and Legal Skills.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching
Gail Henderson
Assistant Professor
Professor Gail Henderson joined Queen's University Faculty of Law as assistant professor in July 2016. Her research interests include corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, securities regulation and the regulation of financial institutions.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Alyssa King
Assistant Professor
Alyssa King studies how adjudicators define their own roles and sources of legitimacy as well as issues of access to justice. She is particularly interested in the intersection of normative systems through mechanisms such as federalism, arbitration, and the reception of international law.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Michael Pratt
Associate Professor
Michael Pratt is an Associate Professor of Law, cross-appointed to Philosophy, at Queen’s University. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he earned his BSc and, following an LLB from Osgoode, his LLM. He later obtained a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sydney.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Sabine Tsuruda
Assistant Professor
Sabine Tsuruda is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law. She graduated from the Joint JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at UCLA, where she studied as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and served as a Senior Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Prior to joining Queen’s, she was a Predoctoral Fellow in Law and Philosophy at UCLA. She also holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in Philosophy from Stanford University.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Corporate Law
Bill Flanagan
Dean and Professor of Law
Bill Flanagan has served as Dean for the past 11 years, first appointed in 2005. His teaching interests include international economic law, business associations, and property law, and his scholarly work spans a number of areas, including property law, business law and trade law.
Administration
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Mohamed Khimji
Associate Professor / David Allgood Professor in Business Law
Mohamed Khimji is the inaugural holder of the David Allgood Professorship in Business Law and is currently visiting Yale Law School as an Associate Research Scholar in Law. His research interests lie in the areas of corporate law, commercial transactions, and intermediated securities.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Robert Yalden
Sigurdson Professor in Corporate Law and Finance
Robert Yalden is the inaugural holder of the Stephen Sigurdson Professorship in Corporate Law and Finance. Prior to joining Queen’s Law in 2018, Robert was a senior partner with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and an Adjunct Professor with McGill Law.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Criminal Law
Benjamin Ewing
Assistant Professor
Benjamin Ewing is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law. Prior to joining Queen’s, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law. He earned his PhD in Politics from Princeton University, his JD from Yale Law School, and his AB in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude. At Princeton, Ewing was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow in the University Center for Human Values.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Lisa Kerr
Assistant Professor, Queen’s Law
Lisa Kerr is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law where she teaches courses on criminal law, sentencing and prison law.
Professor Kerr earned her JD at the University of British Columbia. She clerked with the BC Court of Appeal and was an associate at Fasken Martineau. She also served as staff lawyer at Prisoners’ Legal Services, Canada’s only dedicated legal aid office for prisoners.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Don Stuart
Sessional Professor
Don Stuart was appointed to Queen’s in 1975. One of Canada's leading figures in Criminal Law, he has authored several books and continues to edit Criminal Law Reports as well as teaching at Queen's as a professor emeritus following his retirement in 2018.
Sessional Instructor
Noah Weisbord
Associate Professor
Noah Weisbord is an Associate Professor at Queen's Law. His research focuses on the role of the criminal law in managing, reflecting or exacerbating intergroup conflict. A current project examines self-defence in Canadian criminal law from historical, comparative, and conceptual perspectives. Noah is a leading expert on the crime of aggression—individual criminal responsibility for aggressive war—and he assisted diplomatic delegations to define the crime. His monograph on the crime of aggression is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2018.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Elder Law
David Freedman
Associate Professor
David Freedman is an Associate Professor at Queen’s Law. He earned his LLB at Osgoode before obtaining postgraduate degrees (MA, PhD) at Oxford and Cambridge, respectively. Professor Freedman has taught trusts, wills and estates, estate litigation, civil procedure, and trial advocacy, subjects about which he has published extensively.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Environmental Law
Bruce Pardy
Professor
Professor Pardy specializes in environmental law, property, and torts. He is the author of Ecolawgic (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2663505).
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
European Union Law
Samuel Dahan
Assistant Professor
Samuel Dahan joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in 2018. He is the Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab, a LegalTech global consortium on the application of data analytics and AI to dispute resolution and negotiation. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University, an affiliate faculty member of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and a member of the European Incubator of the Brussels Bar.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Feminist Legal Studies
Bita Amani
Associate Professor
Bita Amani researches intellectual property law (domestic and International), intellectual property law theory and policy and its interaction with law and development, regulating genetics and new technologies, biopiracy and protection of traditional and cultural knowledge, regulatory and ethical Issues of medical/scientific research and its commercialization, privacy and data protection, social justice and regulatory diversity, feminist and critical legal studies.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Kathleen Lahey
Professor
Kathleen Lahey's research focuses on taxation, tax policy and property, as well as law, gender and equality. She, with Professor Bita Amani, runs Feminist Legal Studies Queen's.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Health Law
Patricia Peppin
Professor
Professor Peppin is currently working on images of inequality in prescription drug advertisements, and on innovation in the pharmaceutical field and its impact on women’s health.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Human Rights Law
Leslie Green
Professor
Leslie Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's. After beginning his teaching career at Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has visited and taught at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Ardi Imseis
Assistant Professor
Ardi Imseis is interested in the intersection of power, politics, law, and justice, and the practical impact of those phenomena on international relations in general and on underrepresented peoples in particular. Professor Imseis is reading for a PhD at Cambridge, where his SSHRC-funded research critically examines the gulf between international law and United Nations action, using the question of Palestine as a case study.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Jean Thomas
Assistant Professor, Queen's Law
Jean Thomas is Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law. She is joint convenor of the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts in English Literature and a Juris Doctor, as well as of New York University, with a Master of Laws and a doctorate in law. Prior to joining Queen’s, Professor Thomas was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s McCoy Center for Ethics in Society and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Grégoire Webber
Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law
Grégoire Webber is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s Law, cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is joint convenor of the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Immigration Law
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy, Queen's Law
Ashwini Vasanthakumar is Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. She holds an A.B from Harvard; an M.A from the University of Toronto; a J.D from Yale Law School; and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. She comes to Queen’s from the School of Law, King’s College London.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
International Criminal Law
Darryl Robinson
Darryl Robinson was a Hauser Scholar at New York University School of Law (LL.M International Legal Studies), where he received the Jerome Lipper Award for outstanding achievement in international law. Prior to that, he was the Gold Medalist at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, where he was a President's National Scholar.
He articled at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice John Major.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
International Law
Nicolas Lamp
Assistant Professor
Nicolas Lamp joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor in 2014. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Global Law Programs that Queen’s Law offers at the Bader International Study Centre, Herstmonceux castle, England, during the summer term. Prior to joining Queen's,
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Labour & Employment
Kevin Banks
Associate Professor; Director, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace
Director, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Law and Technology
Arthur Cockfield
Professor
A tax law scholar and policy consultant, Arthur Cockfield is also known in the classroom as an innovative instructor who weaves narrative elements into his courses.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
David Lyon
Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Law
David Lyon's research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major social transformations in the modern world. Questions of the information society, globalization, secularization, surveillance, and debates over “post-” and “digital” modernity feature prominently in his work. Lyon was formerly an editor of Surveillance & Society and is Associate Editor of The Information Society.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research
Legal terminology
Nancy McCormack
Librarian, Associate Professor
Nancy McCormack is an Associate Professor and Law Librarian at Queen’s University, where she teaches Advanced Legal Research for JD students and Legal Research and Writing for graduate students. She has co-authored numerous books including the Annotated Federal Interpretation Act, The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research, Introduction to the Law and Legal System of Canada, and Updating Statutes and Regulations for all Canadian Jurisdictions. She has published widely on the subjects of legal research, Canadian legislation, statutory interpretation, and law librarianship.
Full-Time Faculty: Teaching and Research