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Law beats Meds in charity sports tournament

The Med-Law Games trophy will stay in Macdonald Hall for another year! In the second annual intra-faculty competition, held on Feb. 7 in the Phys Ed Centre, the Queen’s Law team bested their rivals from Queen’s Medicine. Law’s athletes won three of the five events in handball, soccer, dodgeball, basketball and volleyball.

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Photo by Jennifer Dumoulin. Joon Park, Law’99 (right), talks to students about his experiences working and living in New York City.

‘Welcome to New York!’ Queen’s Law

In the early hours of Jan. 22, about 130 Queen’s Law students travelled from Macdonald Hall to wake up in the city that never sleeps. There they enjoyed all that New York City has to offer, including a special opportunity to meet alumni and friends representing a wide a range of careers in the Big Apple.

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Photo by Bernard Clark. Pictured (l-r) at the grand opening of the Queen’s Law Clinics: Tanya Lee, Director, Policy and Programs, Law Foundation of Ontario; Christian Hurley, QBLC and QELC Director; Karla McGrath, QFLC Director; Dean Bill Flanagan; Principal Daniel Woolf; Randall Ellsworth, VP, Legal Aid Ontario, Northern, Central & Eastern Regions; Elizabeth Thomas, QPLC Director; and Jana Mills, QLA Acting Senior Review Counsel.

Queen’s Faculty of Law unveils downtown clinic space

Queen’s University officially opened the Queen’s Law Clinics in the LaSalle Mews Building in downtown Kingston on Jan. 29. Co-locating the five clinics in the LaSalle Mews building will enhance client service.

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Meet Law’s new Associate Dean of Grad Studies and Research

Professor Michael Pratt, who joined Queen’s in 2003 as a Law professor cross-appointed to Philosophy, began a two-and-a-half-year appointment as Law’s Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) on Jan. 1. Queen’s Law Reports met with Associate Dean Pratt to talk about his plans for each of his Law portfolios.

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Adam Grabowski, Law’01, Yong-Jae Kim, Law’04, and Blair McCreadie, Law’99.

Three grads among Lexpert’s newest ‘Rising Stars’

The stars are on the rise for a trio of alumni: Adam Grabowski, Law’01, Toronto, Yong-Jae Kim, Law’04, Vancouver, and Blair McCreadie, Law’99, also Toronto. They wrapped up 2014 as winners on Lexpert’s annual list of “Leading Lawyers Under 40.”

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Queen's Law alumni awards are named in memory of professors Stuart Ryan, LLD'91, and Dan Soberman, LLD'08, and in honour of SCC Justice Thomas Cromwell, Law'76, LLD'10.

Queen’s Law honours alumni with new awards

Queen’s Law community members who want to celebrate alumni accomplishments now have more opportunities than ever. Starting this year, they can nominate graduates for two new awards – the Dan Soberman Outstanding Young Alumni Award and the Justice Thomas Cromwell Distinguished Public Service Award – as well as the longstanding H.R.S. Ryan Law Alumni Award of Distinction.

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Stikeman partner newest Queen’s Law grad named one of ‘Canada’s Most Powerful Women’

For Samantha Horn, Law’91, loyalty continues to pay steady dividends after more than two decades. The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) has included her among the recipients of its 2014 “Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards.” Named in the KPMG Professionals category, she is recognized for leadership within her organization – the one she has been exclusively with since graduation.

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Professor Emeritus Don Carter, Law'66, (Arts'64; right), and Cathie Carter (Arts'65) on Queen's campus

Carters plan their Queen’s legacy

Queen’s has long been central to the lives of Professor Emeritus Don Carter, Law’66 (Arts’64), and his wife, Cathie (Arts’65). Their newest venture with the university is as benefactors.

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Congratulations to two Law’84 alumni

Congratulations to two Law'84 alumni.

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Queen’s Law alumnus named Liberal candidate

Queen’s Law alumnus named Liberal candidate: Nate Erskine-Smith (Law’10) is the newest federal Liberal candidate in Toronto’s Beaches–East York riding.

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Goldring and Mantia at the Faculty of Law, following a guest appearance in Dean Flanagan’s Business Associations class on December 5, 2014

Two Law alumnae on Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women list

Once again, Linda Mantia (Law'92) and Judy Goldring (Law'91) have made the WXN List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada -- and not for the first time.

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Professors Cockfield and Brown received the Sherbaniuk award at a Vancouver ceremony.

Queen's Law prof shares major tax writing prize

Queen's Law Professor Art Cockfield has won the Canadian Tax Foundation's Sherbaniuk Award. Appearing in vol. 61 of the Canadian Tax Journal, "Rectifying Tax Mistakes versus Retroactive Taxes: Reconciling Competing Visions of the Rule of Law," a collaboration with Catherine Brown of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law, was first conceived as Cockfield was visiting Brown in California in 2012.

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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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