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Assistant Dean of Students Heather Cole, Law’96 (far left), Michael Coleman, Law’17 (middle), and Stella Gore, Law’18 (2nd right), with student and alumni participants during the BLSA–Queen’s speed mentoring event. (Photo by Jay Paris)

Black Law Students’ Association at Queen’s reinforces alumni network

March 12, 2018
“Speed mentoring” is the latest event connecting black Queen’s Law students with alumni who are experienced legal professionals. Hosted by the Queen’s Chapter of the Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA) of Canada at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto on February 22, students continued building relationships with graduates, receiving practical advice about law school and the legal profession.
Vulnerabilities in Armed Conflict

Queen’s hosts conference on contemporary international humanitarian law concerns

March 7, 2018
Known as the “Law of Armed Conflict,” international humanitarian law is the body of wartime rules that protect people affected by armed hostilities. Two current problematic areas of the field are the focus of the upcoming conference, “Vulnerabilities in Armed Conflict: Exploring Child Soldiers and Sex as a Weapon of War.”
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Queen’s Law reveals shortlisted proposals for Indigenous Art Commission

March 1, 2018
The Indigenous Art Commission, launched by Queen’s Law in September 2017, has shortlisted three proposals. “The Indigenous community at Queen’s Law is excited to have a permanent visual representation of our heritage, culture and presences on campus,” says Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment and Support Co-ordinator and project committee member. “This art will reflect our history, present and future in Canada, and the evolution of law.”
Queen’s Law Transactional LawMeet team members Christina Kim, Dixon Sunthoram, Bharbara Parken and Felix Moser-Boehm outside the Georgetown University Law Center.

Queen’s becomes first Canadian law school to participate in Transactional LawMeet

February 27, 2018
A team from Queen’s Law spent February 23 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. taking on regional competition at the 2018 Transactional LawMeet. The three-member team was Christina Kim, MBA'18/Law’19, Felix Moser-Boehm, Law’18, and Dixon Sunthoram, Law’19. Bharbara Parken, Law’18 served as the team’s student advisor. The team was co-supervised by Amelia Miao Law’11, and Professor Mohamed Khimji.
Professor Jocelyn Downie of the Schulich School of Law will present the keynote address on a feminist’s perspective on medical assistance in dying in Canada.

Queen’s conference will ‘Press for Progress’ to close gender gaps

February 26, 2018
Gender parity is still 200 years away. That key finding from the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report has prompted the United Nations to adopt the theme “Press for Progress” for International Women’s Day 2018. It’s also the focus of the upcoming Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s (FLSQ) conference “(Re)Production: Inequalities of Gender, Racialization, and Class.” The two-day event takes place on campus on March 2 and 3.
Law’12 panelists (back row, 2nd–4th and 6th–8th left) Husein Panju, Brooke MacKenzie, Brittany Sargent, Sonia Beauchamp, Caity O’Connor and Jonah Goldberg in the faculty lounge with Dean Bill Flanagan (back row, 5th left) and Alumni Relations Committee students. (Photo by Viki Andrevska)

Law’12 grads return to discuss their varied paths to career success

February 23, 2018
At Queen’s Law, students past and present are part of a strong community of peers and mentors that begins at school and carries on after graduation. On February 2, six Law’12 alumni – Sonia Beauchamp, Jonah Goldberg, Brooke MacKenzie, Caity O’Connor, Husein Panju and Brittany Sargent – returned to their alma mater to discuss the diverse ways in which their careers have unfolded.