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Leslie O’Donoghue, QC, Law’88, winner of the first J.A. (Alec) Corry Distinguished Alumni Award.

Calgary’s ‘force of nature’ wins first Corry alumni award

Ask her Queen’s Law classmates and legal colleagues, and they’ll tell you no “ifs, ands or buts:” the Dean’s Council Awards Committee couldn’t have chosen a more deserving inaugural winner of the J.A. (Alec) Corry Distinguished Alumni Award than Leslie O’Donoghue, QC, Law’88.

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Professor Nicolas Lamp, Director of the Global Law Programs at Herstmonceux Castle in the U.K.

New academic director brings fresh perspectives to Global Law Programs

When Professor Nicolas Lamp took on the role of Academic Director of the Bader International Study Centre’s Global Law Programs this year, he knew that input from former Herstmonceux Castle students would be essential to building on the successes of previous years and further improving the experience for future generations.

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Law’12 grad’s podcast allows all to get ‘lawyered’

When he’s not practising law, playing basketball or cartooning, Husein Panju, Law’12, is the voice behind Lawyered, a podcast offering a fresh take on the Canadian legal scene.

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Jodie-Lee Primeau, Review Counsel, Queen’s Legal Aid

Meet the newest lawyer in expanding legal aid clinic

Queen’s Legal Aid (QLA) students are learning from more experienced practitioners than ever before. Jodie-Lee Primeau, who started with the organization as one of two lawyers in an acting role, is its third review counsel. Her hiring is just one key development in QLA’s expansion of services supported by additional funding from Legal Aid Ontario.

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This fall, first-year Queen’s Law students will be taking the innovative Introduction to Legal Skills course, which Goodmans’ gift is helping to support. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Goodmans’ gift fuels innovative student learning experience

When the new crop of first-year students arrives at Queen’s Law this September, they’ll be introduced to an innovative new way of learning thanks in part to a generous $60,000 donation from Goodmans LLP.

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Herstmonceaux Castle, home of Queen's University's Bader International Study Centre Center in East Sussex, England.

Behind the scenes as Queen’s Law storms the Castle

Two students are set to give the world a glimpse of what it’s like to be part of a unique Queen’s Law experience. Katrina Crocker, MPA’16/Law’18, Faye Voight, Law’18, and more than 40 of their classmates have arrived at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, U.K., where they will live and study for the next two months.

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Students of LAW-201 will get an introduction to Canadian Law taught by Queen’s Law professors.

LAW-201 expands its horizons across Ontario

It’s become a mainstay for Queen’s undergrads curious about the law – and now LAW-201 is spreading its virtual wings, as the online course becomes available to undergraduates across Ontario.

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Queen's Law Journal editors Jason Paquette, Katrina van Kessel, Alexander Hinds and Jessica Toldo, all Law’16, stand beside the plaque commemorating Professor Bernie Adell outside the QLJ office.

Queen’s Law Journal students memorialize legendary faculty advisor

Before a gathering of students and faculty outside the Queen’s Law Journal (QLJ) office on April 21, a memorial plaque was unveiled to commemorate the work of Professor Bernie Adell. As long-time faculty advisor to QLJ and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, he influenced scores of student editors in producing two of Canada's leading scholarly legal publications.

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Law students and lawyers team up to help refugee sponsors

Newly allied Queen’s Law students and local lawyers are positioning themselves to assist private refugee sponsors in sponsorship application paperwork. On April 16, students and lawyers participated in the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program, locally supported by Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP and the Frontenac Law Association in cooperation with the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub.

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Hugh Christie, Law’81, shown delivering opening remarks for a 2013 conference on privacy law hosted by Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace.

Queen’s is ‘ahead of the curve’ in international labour and employment law

In an increasingly globalized economy, Canada’s domestically oriented labour and employment laws must now adapt to novel circumstances. This topic is a top research priority for the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace.

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Medal winner Jim Simmons (middle), Law’68, with Martha McCarthy, President of The Advocates’ Society, and Janet Minor, Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, at the awards dinner in Sudbury’s Vale Cavern.

High-flying alumnus honoured as ‘pre-eminent counsel’

“I was surprised, and flattered,” says Jim Simmons, Law’68 (Arts’65), of Weaver, Simmons LLP in Sudbury, on his being awarded with The Advocates' Society Medal at an April 14 dinner held at Science North.

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Eric Gottardi, Law’02, in the grand foyer of the Supreme Court of Canada. (Photo by John Major)

Queen’s grad wins major mandatory minimums case at Supreme Court

On April 15, after hearing submissions in R v Lloyd, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) struck down as unconstitutional the latest in a series of mandatory minimum sentences. Queen’s Law alumnus Eric Gottardi, Law’02, played an instrumental role, serving as pro bono counsel for the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), an intervenor in the case.

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Faculty’s first professional program – in legal AI – sparks new master classes for legal and non-legal participants

Murray presents historical report on missing and disappeared Indigenous children

National research grants awarded to faculty for ‘insightful’ research

Borrows comments on human rights for a more just world

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