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Dhaman Kissoon, Law’89, and Frank Walwyn, Law’93, discuss racial diversity in the legal profession in Macdonald Hall on Dec. 1.

Queen’s Law explores diversity as a competitive advantage

January 6, 2016
Equity-seeking group members continue to face barriers to entering the legal profession. But they are also leading the way in breaking down these barriers. In an informal conversation with Queen’s Law students, Dhaman Kissoon, Law’89, of Kissoon and Associates, and Frank Walwyn, Law’93, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP, shared their experiences as racialized lawyers and offered practical advice to students on how to be themselves and succeed in the legal profession.
Gowlings’ outgoing Chair and CEO Scott Jolliffe, Law’76, and his successor Peter Lukasiewicz, Law’79. (Photo by Matthew Plexman)

Law’79 alumnus succeeds fellow grad to lead Gowlings

December 16, 2015
A second successive lawyer with a Queen’s background will head Gowlings with the firm’s next appointment for Chair and CEO. Peter Lukasiewicz, Law’79, will take over from Scott Jolliffe, Law’76, effective January 1. Lukasiewicz is assuming his new role while Gowlings and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, a leading law firm in the United Kingdom, launch a new international legal practice called Gowling WLG. Lukasiewicz and Jolliffe will both serve on its global board.
This unique piece of artwork depicting Adam Sadinsky, Law’16 and Ian Moore, MPA’14/Law’16, was created by Meagan Berlin, Law’16.

Queen's Law students' rivalry benefits refugees

December 9, 2015
Queen’s Law students Adam Sadinsky, who hails from Ottawa, and Ian Moore, who comes to Queen’s from Edmonton, placed a personal wager on the Canadian Football League title game. Instead of money exchanging hands between the winner and loser, though, the two third-year students decided to donate the money to the local Refugee Relief Fund operated by the United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.
Leah Thompson, Law’17 (Photo by Greg Black)

‘Castle’ experience catapults student to international tribunal

December 4, 2015
Leah Thompson, Law’17, will be spending her second consecutive summer in Europe. This year, she completed the Public International Law (PIL) Program at Herstmonceux Castle, the Queen’s-owned Bader International Study Centre in East Sussex, U.K. She has now accepted an offer to intern next summer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Fabian Raso, MBA‘12/Law’13, and Mark Scattolon pitch their business Hangry on the hit show Dragons’ Den, filmed in Toronto and originally aired on Nov. 4.

CBC’s Dragons’ Den is hungry for recent grad’s Hangry

December 2, 2015
Fabian Raso, MBA‘12/Law’13 (Artsci’09), has hit it big on the popular CBC show Dragons’ Den. His company, Hangry, closed a deal for $120,000 with three “dragons” in November. Hangry, a skip-the-line restaurant app now targeted at university and college students, allows users to pre-order and pre-pay for meals from any of their on-campus food locations and then notifies them when their order is ready for pickup.
Owen Rees, Law’02, and Professor Grégoire Webber

Advocacy Institute co-founders from Queen’s Law saluted nationally

November 30, 2015
Alumnus Owen Rees and Professor Grégoire Webber of Queen’s Faculty of Law have been selected to receive one of Canada’s most prestigious civilian honours. Rees, Law’02, a partner at the highly regarded Toronto boutique litigation firm Stockwoods, and friend Webber, the Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law, will be awarded Meritorious Service Medals at an upcoming ceremony in Ottawa. The medals, established by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to recognize individuals for remarkable achievements, will be presented by Governor General David Johnston, Law’66, LLD’91.
Professor Martha Bailey, LLM’88, curls up with a few good books, including The Laws of Adulterine Bastardy, in the Lederman Law Library. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Professor Bailey researches marriage law in Jane Austen’s world

November 27, 2015
“Marriage,” writes Martha Bailey, “is the central theme and conclusion of Jane Austen’s novels.” From her first published book, Sense and Sensibility, to her last, Persuasion, Austen’s plots centred on the intricacies of marriage, from engagements and financial settlements to clandestine weddings, adultery and illegitimate children.