Hiring three junior scholars, Queen’s Law continues to expand its research and teaching capacity. Nicolas Lamp, Gail Henderson and Lisa Kelly will all begin tenure-track appointments in July.

“These are three outstanding faculty appointees,” says Dean Bill Flanagan. “They will greatly strengthen our teaching and research in a variety of areas, including international economic law, business law and criminal law.”

Nicolas Lamp completed his PhD in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2013. His doctoral thesis investigated the origins and implications of the discourses, practices and techniques that shape international law-making in the trade context. He received the 2012 Francis Lieber Prize for outstanding scholarship in the field of the law of armed conflict from the American Society of International Law. Previously, he worked as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization.

Lamp has been with Queen’s Law since 2014, serving a two-year appointment as an assistant professor. He will continue to teach Contracts and International Economic Law and to be involved in the International Business Law Program held each spring at the Bader International Study Centre (Herstmonceux Castle) in the U.K.

Gail Henderson graduated as the Gold Medallist from Osgoode Law School in 2005. She served as a law clerk for Justice Louise Charron of the Supreme Court of Canada and practised commercial litigation and environmental and municipal law at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto. In 2014, she completed her SJD at the University of Toronto with a research focus on the role of corporate governance in encouraging sustainable development. Recently, she received a grant from the Canadian Ireland University Foundation to study the use of public interest directors appointed to the boards of Irish banks in the wake of the Irish banking crisis.

Henderson, who has been an assistant professor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law since 2013, will be teaching business law at Queen’s.

Lisa Kelly earned an SJD from Harvard Law School in 2015. Her doctoral dissertation, “Governing the Child: Parental Authority, State Power, and the School in North America,” analyzed legal struggles since the mid-19th century over race, corporal punishment and the disciplinary reach of school authorities. She has been a Trudeau Scholar and held numerous distinguished fellowships, including a 2014-2016 postgraduate fellowship with the Centre for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School in New York City.

Previously, Kelly completed a JD at the University of Toronto and served as a law clerk for Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada. She articled with the Department of Justice in Ottawa. This fall at Queen’s, she will be teaching Criminal Law and Evidence.

Faculty hiring is not over yet. The first holder of the David Allgood Professorship in Business Law and a Queen’s National Scholar in Labour and Employment Law are expected to be appointed this summer.

Watch for stories on each faculty appointee in late spring.