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Moderator Art Cockfield and panelists Allan Manson, Michele Leering, Brian Abrams and Malcom Mercer

First-year students introduced to ethical challenges in the legal profession

September 23, 2015
Legal ethics and professional responsibility have become increasingly important not only in legal education but also in the professional lives of lawyers and judges. Thanks to McCarthy Tétrault LLP, new Queen’s Law students got an overview on the topic from experts representing different aspects of the profession.
Jon Weiss, PhD in Law student

PhD student wins national award for research on mass surveillance and international law

September 16, 2015
Are emergent transnational technologies such as drone warfare, climate engineering and mass surveillance legal under international law? That’s the question Jon Weiss, a new doctoral student at Queen’s Law, will be exploring with funding from the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The award, given by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support high-caliber graduate student scholars, is valued at $35,000 per year until 2017-18.
Michael Casey, Law’72

Calgary alumni salute Law’72 grad for lifelong community involvement

September 14, 2015
If there is a big event or major organization in Calgary, odds are Michael Casey, Law’72, has played a major role in it. He has been involved with the Calgary Winter Olympics (1988), Tourism Calgary, and the city’s Grey Cup Committee, Airport Authority and Chamber of Commerce. Most notably, he served as president and CEO of the Calgary Stampede.
Conference co-organizers Tsvi Kahana of Queen's Law and Yishai Blank of Tel Aviv Law, and keynote speaker Reva Siegel of Yale Law

Emerging issues in Constitutional Law focus of conference at Queen’s Law this fall

September 11, 2015
On October 2-3, 2015, Queen’s Law will host an international conference on “Constitutional Culture,” co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, with over twenty speakers from Queen’s, Tel Aviv, Toronto and leading American law schools. The conference will address the ways in which constitutions shape cultures, and the ways in which cultures shape constitutions.
Incoming doctoral students: (top row l-r) Maseeh Haseeb, Michele Leering and Jane Thomson; (bottom row l-r) Jonathan Weiss, and Cristóbal Caviedes.

New PhD students bring diverse research interests to Queen’s Law

August 24, 2015
Six accomplished scholars will be joining the Queen’s PhD in Law program this year, adding new vigor to Queen’s Law’s established research culture. The students come from varied professional and research backgrounds, but are united in their desire to devote the next three years of their lives to the production of original and substantial pieces of legal scholarship.