QLaw Research Review Feb. 2026

QLaw Research Review

FEBRUARY 2026 • VOL 2

Front row: Professor Samuel Dahan, Professor Cherie Metcalf and Dean Colleen M. Flood.

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

It is a privilege to lead a law school whose faculty demonstrate such depth of scholarly excellence. This issue of the QLaw Research Review showcases a wide range of research achievements across the Faculty, with a particular spotlight on labour law an area in which Queen’s Law is a national leader.

Queen’s Law has been fortunate over many decades to count among its faculty some of the most influential scholars in Canadian labour law, including former Queen’s Law Deans Bernie Adell and Don Carter, as well as Innis Christie, a professor at Queen’s in the 1960s and subsequently Dean at Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie Their work helped shape the field and laid the intellectual foundations on which we continue to build In more recent years, this legacy has been carried forward through the establishment of the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW) the only dedicated labour law centre housed within a faculty of law in Canada led by inaugural Director and Associate Dean Kevin Banks. We take great pride in the centre’s accomplishments under his leadership, its impact on research and teaching, and its role as a national hub for scholars across disciplines engaged in labour law and policy.

The centre is central to how Queen’s Law is responding to the rapidly changing world of work Digital technologies, including AI, are transforming workplaces and labour markets, with significant implications for collective bargaining, labour standards, and employment law The Faculty is investing to ensure that the CLCW can accelerate research in this critical area We are extremely fortunate to be home to Professor Samuel Dahan, Conflict Analytics Lab Director, whose work aims to position Queen’s Law as a base for open-access AI legal tools, including in the area of dispute resolution.

We are also delighted to welcome Professor Bethany Hastie as our new CLCW Director, effective January 2026. Her research spans discrimination in employment, collective bargaining, migrant labour, platform work, and the implications of technology in the workplace. Supported by major competitive funding, her current work explores how collective agreements can serve as vehicles for legal innovation in response to technological disruption With a strong interdisciplinary approach, extensive research networks, and a clear vision for the centre’s future, Professor Hastie brings exceptional potential to deepen the centre’s scholarly impact, enhance its policy relevance, and provide national leadership at a pivotal moment for labour and employment law

Centres like the CLCW are foundational to our research ecosystem. They enable sustained, multidisciplinary collaboration such as the partnership between labour law scholars and colleagues in Queen’s Industrial Relations and School of Policy Studies and they provide the infrastructure needed to translate research to a range of different audiences, thus supporting a web of students, scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. This Research Review offers a glimpse of that vitality, and I am delighted to share it with you.

RECOGNITION

The Chiefs of Ontario honour Professor Kimberly Murray in a Blanket Ceremony. Photo courtesy Chiefs of Ontario

FUNDING

The Chiefs of Ontario honoured Professor Kimberly Murray with a special ceremony in Toronto recognizing her contributions as former Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites

In 2024, Murray released her Final Report: Upholding Sacred Obligations, which includes Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience, recommending a new federal legal framework to protect the graves and burial sites of Indigenous children who died while at Indian Residential Schools and other institutions.

The Queen’s Conflict Analytics Lab (CAL), in partnership with the Access to Justice (A2J) Lab at Harvard Law School, received $467,000 through the Law Foundation of Ontario’s Responsive Grant program. Led by CAL Director Professor Samuel Dahan, along with A2J Lab partners, the project is designed to improve Pro Bono Ontario’s (PBO) client intake and lawyerclient interactions through a lawyer-controlled AI system built on the OpenJustice platform Read more in this Queen’s Law article

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APPOINTMENTS

Professor Kevin Banks was appointed to the International Labour Organization’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). Read more in this Queen’s Law article.

ofessor Debra Haak was appointed to the expert advisory panel of the nadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.

essor Joshua Karton was appointed to the editorial board of ration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation, and Dispute agement (the journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)

Professor Cherie Metcalf was appointed to the Affiliated Research Ethics Pool (AREP), an advisory body of the Queen’s Health Sciences and General Research Ethics Boards

ofessor Ivan Ozai was appointed to the council of the International scal Association (Canadian Branch). Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 2025 •

SPOTLIGHT

Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace

Since its launch in 2010, the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace (CLCW) has been home to a vibrant community of labour and employment scholars, students, and practitioners

Under the stewardship of Professor Kevin Banks, Associate Dean, Faculty and Academic Policy, as founding director, the centre serves as a leading force for innovation in law, policy, and dialogue in the contemporary workplace.

Over the years, the CLCW has hosted 20 workshops and conferences, bringing together scholars and practitioners from across Canada and internationally. These events have resulted in 12 collections of papers published as bound volumes or as special collections in peer-reviewed journals, comprising a total of 87 papers, and a forthcoming edited volume containing 19 papers as chapters.

In addition to law faculty, several members of the Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre have been active members of the CLCW over the years, including Professors Richard Chaykowski, Robert Hickey, and Bradley Weinberg Banks and Chaykowski are currently co-leading a centre research project examining how the foundations of Canadian work law and policy need to change in response to long-term economic and technological change.

Notable among the centre’s activities have been a conference and special journal issue on migrant work (2018); a symposium on new foundations for labour law (2022); and a conference on AI and the future of work (2025), co-hosted by the Queen’s Conflict Analytics Lab (Director Samuel Dahan); as as well as partnership in the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work [Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail] (CRIMT).

The CLCW has also established itself as a strong advocate of student initiatives, such as through support for the 1L Hicks Morley Moot, and has built lasting connections with the alumnipractitioner community through its advisory committee

The centre is proud to host the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Canada’s only specialized labour and employment law journal. With Banks serving as editor-in-chief, the journal provides for-credit experiential learning opportunities to about 10 JD students per year, volunteer learning opportunities through supervised citation-checking to a similar number, and a summer editorship to a JD student. Over the past 12 years, the Supreme Court of Canada has cited 24 of the journal’s papers in decisions affecting the development of labour and employment law across Canada.

The CLCW has attracted more than $1 2 million to Queen’s in private donations and grants from the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the National Academy of Arbitrators Research and Education Fund. Much of this funding has been devoted to supporting postdoctoral fellows and PhD and JD students who gain valuable experience working each summer as research assistants. The first CLCW postdoc was Dr. Elizabeth Shilton, a founding partner at one of Canada’s leading labour law firms and a leading feminist scholar While at the centre, she authored Empty Promises: Why Workplace Pension Law Doesn’t Deliver Pensions, a pioneering book critiquing Canada’s retirement pension law system.

The centre is also a partner in the Institutional Experimentation for Better Work Partnership Project, supported by a SSHRC Partnership Grant held by the CRIMT, Université de Montréal ($2 5 million) This project has global, multidisciplinary reach, and provides one of the few institutional links between labour and employment law researchers in English and French Canada

After 15 years leading the centre’s activities, Banks has now stepped down as CLCW Director.

“It has been a real honour and pleasure to work with the centre’s advisory committee and with faculty colleagues to launch and drive forward the centre’s research and education work,” Banks says

“For 15 years, we have advanced inquiry into key issues facing the law and policy of work relations in ways that have engaged the employer, union and government policy communities, and students at Queen’s Law. The time has come to pass the torch.

“I am very pleased that the Faculty has recruited a dynamic colleague with a proven record of research and teaching success to take over as centre director ”

Effective January 1, 2026, Bethany Hastie was appointed Associate Professor at Queen’s Law and CLCW Director. A multiple award-winning researcher in labour and employment law, she joined Queen’s from the University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Building on the centre’s strong record of engagement, Hastie aims to further broaden its reach at Queen’s and beyond

“A key initiative for my first year in the role is to facilitate a strong interdisciplinary network of research affiliates across Queen’s campus that will enable innovative and productive research collaborations in the near and long term,” she says

Hastie will also continue the CLCW’s recent foray into issues of technology by organizing the centre’s second conference on technology and the future of work, in May 2026, again in collaboration with the Conflict Analytics Lab. This area of study also builds on her own research, which examines the growing divergence between the legal regulation of work and the day-to-day realities for workers, including with respect to technological change in the workplace

“As incoming director of the CLCW, I’m eager to build on the centre’s strong foundations and to expand its network across Queen’s, Canada, and internationally through new initiatives focused on technology and the future of work.”

Read more about Hastie in this Queen’s Law article.

From left: Bernard (Bernie) Adell (Queen’s Law Dean 1977-1982); Ron McCallum (LLM’74, LLD’16, Dean, University of Sydney Law School); Professor Kevin Banks, founding CLCW Director); Jeffrey Sack (Jeffrey Sack Law, Toronto, CLCW advisory committee co-chair); Bill Flanagan (Queen’s Law Dean 2005-2019); and Hugh Christie (Ogletree Deakins, Toronto, CLCW advisory committee co-chair) at the CLCW launch on November 5, 2010.

EVENTS

QLaw-Smith Research Exchange

Queen’s Law and Smith School of Business researchers gathered at Smith for the first-ever joint business-law research exchange, titled “Business-Law Research Exchange on Contracts, Capital and Climate: Risk, Responsibility and Accountability.” Recognizing the overlap between research in business and law, the event presented an opportunity for researchers to share their work and identify synergies. Two researchers from each faculty delivered flash-style presentations on their current work, followed by a brief panel discussion and networking.

Queen’s Law Professor Erik S. Knutsen spoke on “Insurance Law and Business.” Professor Robert Yalden discussed his ongoing work on whether the process Canadian securities commissions follow when enacting binding rules is capturing all the voices it should and the implications for the legitimacy of those rules

Professor Erik S. Knutsen, above, and Professor Robert Yalden, left, present at the QLaw-Smith Research Exchange.

SCC 150th Anniversary

In recognition of the Supreme Court of Canada’s 150th anniversary, Queen’s Law hosted Justice Malcolm Rowe for a special lecture at Grant Hall exploring how the Court’s role has fundamentally evolved since its establishment in 1875 Dean Colleen M. Flood emceed the event, while Professors Lisa Kerr and Jacob Weinrib delivered observations. Read more in this Queen’s Law article.

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Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference

Dean Colleen M. Flood, along with Professors Sharry Aiken, Lindsay Borrows, Alyssa King, Cherie Metcalf, and Bruce Pardy, were among the leading expert speakers at the inaugural Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law), a global academic partnership conference coorganized by Queen’s Law and hosted at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto The non-partisan collaboration involved more than 150 law schools worldwide, bringing together law school deans, academics, and other institutional leaders to develop concrete steps for advancing the rule of law during these challenging times. Dean Flood co-organized and moderated the event. Aiken presented "Academic Freedom Under Siege;" Borrows presented “Rethinking the Rule of Law: Incorporating Indigenous Legal Perspectives;” King was organizer and panelist for “Systems are Systems: Civil Process and the Rule of Law;” Metcalf presented “Political Polarization, Public Opinion and the Rule of Law” and was a panel moderator for “Rethinking the Rule of Law: Expanding our Perspectives;” and Pardy presented "The Unholy Trinity of the Managerial State "

Clockwise, from top right, Dean Colleen M. Flood, Professors Sharry Aiken and Alyssa King, Professor Bruce Pardy, Professor Cherie Metcalf, and Professor Lindsay Borrows. Photos Buda Photo, courtesy Osgoode Hall Law School.

Cockfield Memorial Symposium

Professors Gail Henderson and Ivan Ozai helped co-organize a two-day “Cockfield Memorial Symposium: Tax Sovereignty in a Digital and Divided World,” Toronto, in memory of the late Queen’s Law Professor Arthur Cockfield. The event brought together leading tax scholars from Canada, the United States, New Zealand, England, Portugal, and Poland, along with tax practitioners and policymakers. Event co-sponsors were Queen's Law, the International Fiscal Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation, and Osgoode Hall Law School. Selected papers presented at the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Canadian Tax Journal

PRESENTATIONS / ENGAGEMENTS

Professors Sharry Aiken, Bita Amani, Beverley Baines, and Debra Haak participated in a conference on Multidimensional Equality: The 40th Anniversary of the Coming into Force of Section 15 at the University of Saskatchewan. Aiken presented “Equally Unequal: Intersectional Oppression and the Equality Claims of Non-citizens in Canada;” Amani chaired “The Promise of Intersectionality;” Baines presented “English Montreal School Board et al v Quebec et al: the case for the primacy of s 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;” and Haak presented “Equality Unspoken: A Critical Examination of Constitutional Decisions on Criminal Prostitution Laws.” In photo, from left, Professors Debra Haak, Bita Amani, and Beverley Baines; McGill Law Professor Vrinda Narain; and Professor Sharry Aiken.

Professor Sharry Aiken (with Andrea Speltz, Queen’s Educational Development and Instructional Design) presented "AI Literacy Meets Reflective Practice Pedagogy: Equipping Law Students for an Algorithmic Future" at The Role of AI in Legal Education

– Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers symposium convened by Westminster Law

School in London, UK She also presented "Artificial Intelligence & Automated Decision Making: A Rights-based perspective" at the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC) conference, The AI Shift, in Mississauga; and "Academic Freedom Under Siege" at the inaugural (Queen’s Lawco-organized) Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. (See Events, page 9.)

Professor Bita Amani co-presented (with Mark Swartz, Queen’s Scholarly Publishing Librarian) "Who’s the Fairest of them All: Libraries and Fairer Dealings Still 20 Years after CCH" and chaired a panel, "CCH's Legacy on the International Stage and Lessons from Abroad" at The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd v. Law Society of Upper Canada and Future of Copyright Law Conference, Toronto. She was a moderator for the Families Roundtable: Exploring New Priorities for Garnet Families at the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR), Ottawa; and presented on a panel, "'Fair' or Foul? Copyright Battles" at the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) Annual Conference, Saskatoon. Amani also participated in Accessing the History of Digital Media: Towards a Canadian Framework for the Recovery of Software-based Works, a two-day multidisciplinary workshop bringing together Canadian and international researchers and digital practitioners, Banff, Alta.

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presented “Acting for Clients Alleged to Have Used Family Violence: Representation Without Escalation,” LSO program, Practical Strategies, Solutions, and Best Practices in Family Violence Matters – The Initial Steps; “Children in the Crossfire: Parenting Plans in High Conflict Separations,” York Region Law Assoc ; “Parental Alienation: Junk Science or Child Abuse? A Question for Politicians, Judges or Psychologists?”, Parental Alienation Study Group Conference, Toronto; “Parenting Orders in High Conflict Cases,” Alberta Court of King’s Bench Education Program, Edmonton, AB; “The AFCC-O Parenting Plan Guide: Possible Revisions,” Ontario Chapter, Assoc. of Family & Conciliation Courts, Toronto; “Parental Alienation: Child Abuse or Junk Science?”, Strategies for Family Justice Professionals in High Conflict Parenting Cases, B C Family Law; “Child Inclusive Mediation: Recent Research,” Peel Family Mediation Service & Ontario Assoc. for Family Mediation Joint Symposium, Brampton; and “Family Dispute Resolution: A Paradigm Shift,” Family Dispute Resolution Institute Atlantic conference, St John’s, N L

co-facilitated a four-day Anishinaabe Law Camp for more than 200 law students, faculty, lawyers, and guests from Queen’s, University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto Metropolitan University, and University of Victoria, hosted by The Chippewas of Rama First Nation Read more in “Embracing a posture of humility through land-based learning,” written by a participating U of T student. Borrows also spoke at a community gathering at Alderville First Nation about nibi chi-naakonigewin (Anishinaabe water law), intended to deliberate stewardship of the wild rice/manoomin and waters in the Nation's territory. (On November 17, 2025, Alderville First Nation passed a resolution recognizing Rice Lake’s legal personhood, a first in Ontario ) Borrows also presented “Rethinking the Rule of Law: Incorporating Indigenous Legal Perspectives” at the inaugural (Queen’s Lawco-organized) Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (See Events, page 9 )

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Professor Samuel Dahan, Director, Conflict Analytics Lab, co-organized (with the University of Ottawa and McGill University) an invitationonly workshop, “Legal Data Access,” in Montreal on legal/court data access and open-source infrastructure in law, with a view to a Canadian open legal corpus and governance models that support trustworthy legal AI Funded through the Law Commission of Canada, attendees included representatives from the Harvard Caselaw Access Project, Cambridge Legal Corpus, Stanford CodeX, Cour de cassation (French Supreme Court), and technologists from Canadian courts, academia, and public interest organizations. Dahan also led an Artificial Intelligence and Legal Innovation roundtable discussion with Kingston lawyers on how AI is transforming legal practice and shaping the future of the profession

Dean Colleen M. Flood coorganized and moderated the inaugural Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference, a non-partisan collaboration involving more than 150 law schools worldwide, at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. The conference brought together law school deans, academics, and other institutional leaders to develop concrete steps for advancing the rule of law (See Events, page 9 ) Flood was also joined by Professor David Freedman (along with Alexandra Manthorpe, Partner, Cunningham Swan, and Leanne Kaufman, President and CEO, RBC Royal Trust) for a free online panel discussion on End-of-Life Law & Planning. With a focus on wills, trusts, and estates, the panel was intended to de-mystify the legal implications around financial planning for end-oflife. Listen to a recording of the session.

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Professor Debra Haak copresented her paper “Section 7 is a Cannibal: Getting Substantive Equality and the Public Interest Off the Menu” at a workshop on History and Constitutionalism at the University of Waterloo; and presented “When Violence Against Women is Called Sex: Common Law Limits on Consent to Bodily Harm” at a conference jointly hosted by four UK-based research networks at the University of Liverpool on Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression As part of the international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence: Building resilience through engagement campaign, Haak also co-presented “Treating Male Violence as Hate in Canada” through the JUScampus learning platform to more than 100 attendees from the Department of Justice Canada

Professor Gail Henderson co-presented, with Jacob Nkut (Law'26), “Buy Now, Pay Later” at the Canadian Law and Economics Association conference, Toronto In recognition of Financial Literacy Month, she also discussed buy now, pay later services with JD student Nicolina Fasciano in this Queen’s Law-produced video. Henderson also helped co-organize (with Professor Ivan Ozai) a two-day “Cockfield Memorial Symposium: Tax Sovereignty in a Digital and Divided World,” Toronto, in memory of the late Queen’s Law Professor Arthur Cockfield. (See Events, page 9.)

The Inte Justice d opinion on Israel s obligations in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations, and third states in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Professor Ardi Imseis, cocounsel for the State of Palestine, attended the proceedings at The Hague. Watch here. He was also named to the Republic of Nicaragua’s legal team in the case concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v Germany), International Court of Justice; and addressed members of the French Assemblée National in Paris on the international law of recognition of states. Imseis was also invited to deliver the prestigious 2025 Leiden Journal of International Law Annual Lecture in The Hague In addition, Imseis delivered inperson invited guest lectures at the American University in Beirut, École Normale Supérieure, La Sorbonne (Paris I), Sciences Po, Universidad Magdalena, University of Amsterdam, Université Paris Cité, University of Glasgow, and Utrecht University.

commentator at the annual Canadian Commercial Law Symposium; moderated a panel on “Innovation in Arbitration: Technology, Diversity, and the Next Generation” at the 2025 Africa Arbitration Day; attended the International Bar Association annual meeting, where guidelines for evidentiary privileges in international arbitration (which he cowrote) were launched; and served as an adjudicator for the New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Grants With co-author Stanley Nweke-Eze, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, he presented “Dealer’s Choice: Will Treatification Give Way to Contractualization in International Investment Law?” at a conference in Quebec City Karton spent a week in Poznań, Poland, at the invitation of the city government and Adam Mickiewicz University, where he gave a public lecture, “Keeping our Economic Engines Well-Oiled: Making Arbitration work for Entrepreneurs in Cross-Border Commerce;” led a workshop on academic legal writing; lectured in an LLM course; and coached the university’s arbitration moot team.

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Q p 50” anniversary event. (See Events, page 8.) She also worked with external pro bono counsel on an intervention for the Queen's Prison Law Clinic in the case of R v Cope, heard at the SCC in December 2025; and presented at professional development conferences in Regina, Edmonton, and Niagara-on-theLake and to Superior Court law clerks in Toronto

Professor Alyssa King presented “Comparing Three Commercial Courts: Dubai, Kazakhstan, and Singapore” at the Canadian Commercial Law Workshop, Western University Faculty of Law; and co-presented the coauthored paper “Hryniak’s Erosion: Summary Judgment in Ontario” at Osgoode Hall Law School She was also organizer and panelist for “Systems are Systems: Civil Process and the Rule of Law” at the inaugural (Queen’s Law-co-organized) Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (See Events, page 9 )

o esso S. utse presented “Rules by Consequence” at the International Association of Procedural Law Colloquium in Zagreb, Croatia (where his paper was awarded amongst the top five papers of this juried conference) and at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto. He also spoke on “Insurance Coverage Sources Beyond the Obvious: Creativity and Challenges” at the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia; and “Insurance Coverage Issues and Considerations” at the Thunder Bay Law Association’s annual conference. Knutsen also spoke on “Insurance Law and Business” at the Queen’s LawSmith School of Business collaborative Business-Law Research Exchange, titled Contracts, Capital and Climate: Risk, Responsibility and Accountability (See Events, page 8 )

Professor Nicolas Lamp shared insights on global trade at the Queen’s Micro Summit in Ottawa, organized by Queen’s University Alumni. Watch the event. Read a Queen’s Gazette article about the event, “Micro Summit Series: Trade tensions are reshaping Canada’s global position ”

Professor Cherie Metcalf presented “Political Polarization, Public Opinion and the Rule of Law” and was a panel moderator for “Rethinking the Rule of Law: Expanding our Perspectives” at the inaugural (Queen’s Law-coorganized) Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law) at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. (See Events, page 9.) She also presented “Reframing Torts: Empirical Evidence” at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), Georgetown Law, Washington, D C , and at Canadian Law & Economics Association (CLEA) meetings, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Metcalf was also an invited expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Cities, in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), National University of Singapore

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Professor Kimberly Murray (with Anishinaabe Elder Darrell Boissoneau) presented her paper “Lawyering for Reconciliation: The Legal Profession’s Role in Truth, Accountability, and Systemic Change,” Toronto, and was a keynote speaker at Laurentian University’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Symposium, Sudbury. Read Sudbury News and Elliot Lake Today articles about the event Murray also participated at a University of Waterloo event with experts from Colombia on forced disappearance; and presented on Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children in Canada at the 2025 Indigenous Awareness Symposium (organized by the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, Ontario Provincial Police, and Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario), Rama

Professor Ivan Ozai joined an international group of tax law scholars in submitting an amicus curiae brief before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) opposing the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce’s challenge to the EU’s global minimum tax and supporting its compatibility with EU primary law. He also presented his paper “Taxing Decentralized Governance” at the Cockfield Memorial Symposium, Tax Sovereignty in a Digital and Divided World, Toronto (see Events, page 9); and his paper “Global Justice and the Reshaping of International Tax” at the Escola Superior de Tributação do Brasil Ozai was also invited to speak on the “Future of Corporate Taxation” at the Brazil-Europe Integration Forum, Portugal; and was a panelist on “Lecturing in Law Teaching” at the Osgoode Hall Law School’s Certificate in Law Teaching.

Professor Bruce Pardy presented "The Unholy Trinity of the Managerial State," and suggested that law schools could protect and advance the rule of law by challenging the combination of delegation, deference, and discretion that empowers an administrative form of government to manage society, at the inaugural (Queen’s Law-coorganized) Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership Conference (The Role of Law Schools in Advancing the Rule of Law) at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (See Events, page 9 )

Professor Darryl Robinson presented “Can Criminal Law Help Protect the Environment?” at the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Conference on Environment and the Law, Vancouver; and “Humans Matter Too: Ecocentrism is not Misanthropic” at the launch of the Special Issue of the International Journal on Human Rights, dedicated to Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice, University of London. He also chaired a panel on “The Draft Crimes Against Humanity Convention: Multilateral Negotiation in a Divided International Order” at the Canadian Council of International Law, Ottawa.

Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar spoke at the American Political Science Association annual conference, an online symposium on Adrian Piper's Escape from Berlin; and at the University of Oslo on her research on structural oppression and victims' agency She also presented parts of her book project on the ethics of being an immigrant at a conference at the University of British Columbia and a manuscript workshop at the University of Amsterdam. Vasanthak also spent a week as a fellow at the Amsterda Research Centre for M (University of Amsterd at Shiv Nadar Universit (Chennai), where she t seminar, "Constitution Democracy and Justice

Professor Grégoire Webber presented on the separation of powers at the annual Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada's evaluation committee for the Kitty Newman Award; articles editor with the Modern Law Review; and an editorial board member with the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence and The American Journal of Jurisprudence.

Professor Jacob Weinrib spoke at the Queen’s “Supreme Court at 150” anniversary event (See Events, page 9 ) He also gave a presentation entitled “The Idea of Procedural Fairness” at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics. Sept. 9 - Dec. 31, 2025 • law.queensu.ca

Professor Robert Yalden, Co-Editor in Chief, Canadian Business Law Journal, was a lead organizer and co-chair of a conference celebrating the journal’s 50th anniversary: Business Law in Canada

The Next 50 Years, at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The conference brought business law academics from across the country together with leading practitioners to reflect on the challenges and opportunities Canadian business law will face over the next halfcentury. He was also chair of a panel on the “Duties and Responsibility of Directors” at a conference hosted by the Université de Montréal: Fifty Years of the Canada Business Corporations Act: Evolution, Challenges and Future

Directions Papers from both conferences will be published later this year in the Canadian Business Law Journal. At the Queen’s Law-Smith School of Business collaborative Business-Law Research Exchange, titled Contracts, Capital and Climate: Risk, Responsibility and Accountability, Yalden discussed his ongoing work on whether the process Canadian securities commissions follow when enacting binding rules is capturing all the voices it should and the implications for the legitimacy of those rules (See Events, page 8 )

VISITING SCHOLARS / RESEARCH FELLOWS

Michele Leering Visiting Scholar

At the invitation of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, Michele Leering spoke to first-year medical students about “Advancing the Health Justice Partnership (HJP) approach.” She spoke to Queen’s first-year

law students on “Strengthening y p y p g professional competence in law” and presented “Multidisciplinary practice and access to justice: HJP as a case study” to Osgoode Professional Development Institute students. While in Australia, Leering taught the masterclass "Increasing access to justice through multi-disciplinary practice " She offered a training on reflective practice at Monash’s international legal clinics conference and presented doctoral findings in another workshop She delivered "RP as a meta-competency and antidote: Reporting on a multiple country case study of RP in law schools" at UNSW’s Legal Education Research conference; and "Developing capability and competence to advance HJP: Lessons from research and practice" and closing conference remarks at a Health Justice Australia conference, Sydney.

Leering, right, with Lottie Turner, CEO, Health Justice Australia.

Professor Virginia Torrie Business Law Research Fellow / Law’80 Visiting Lecturer

Presentations: Professor Virginia Torrie delivered the Law’80 Lecture at Queen’s Law titled “Thirteen Economies, One Country: How the Highest Court Undermined a National Canadian Economy,” examining the Supreme Court of Canada’s impact on national economic integration She also presented “Navigating Academic Journal Publishing as a New Scholar” to Queen’s Law faculty and students, offering practical guidance on academic publishing; presented “A Model Framework for Small Farm Insolvencies” at the Academics’ Colloquium of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association, hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney, Australia; and served as an invited commentator at the annual Commercial Law Symposium at Western University Faculty of Law, contributing to a panel on corporate insolvency in India and Canada

Publications: Torrie co-authored The 2026 Annotated Bank Act with Associated Regulations (Thomson Reuters) and co-authored “Introduction to the Seventh Annual Special Issue on FinTech,” Banking & Finance Law Review. She also served as Editor-in-Chief, Banking & Finance Law Review, overseeing publication of Volume 41:3 and Volume 42:1, the journal’s Seventh Annual Special Issue on FinTech

Funding: Torrie received a $2,500 Queen’s University Fund for Scholarly Research & Creative Work (Adjuncts) grant for her project “Reimagining Farm Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies,” which will analyze insolvency frameworks for agricultural producers in developing jurisdictions.

Reakash Walters

Stuart-Delisle Research Fellow

Reakash Walters published the chapter “Abolitionist Lawyers: Making Prisons Obsolete” in Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law, University of Ottawa Press. She also published a book review of “Canadian Criminal Law in Ten Cases” by Martin L Friedland, in the Canadian Historical Review, University of Toronto Press

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JOURNALS / BOOKS

Professor Lindsay Borrows and former Queen’s Law Visiting Fellow Professor Jessica Eisen (2024/2025) launched the special double issue of the Review of Constitutional Studies titled “Our More-than-Human Constitutions." The issue comprises contributions from scholars in fields including constitutional law, Indigenous law, environmental law, animal law, and ethnobotany on the ways in which legal orders, Indigenous and state, approach the regulation of the more-than-human. In addition to serving as co-editor, Borrows published a peer-reviewed article in the collection titled “Learning Law from Plants.”

Dean Colleen M. Flood (with co-author Bryan Thomas) published “Rethinking the objectives of a pan-Canadian immunization information system” in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Professor Joshua Karton co-edited the book Research Methods for Contract Law and Scholarship (Edward Elgar 2025). Within this volume, he co-wrote the introductory chapter, “Everything is Interconnected Can We Understand Contracts from Only One Perspective?” and wrote the chapter “Contract Laws and Contracts as Law: Transnational Law Within, Between, and Beyond States.”

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Professor Lisa M. Kelly published the chapter “The School of Policing Origins of R v Grant” in Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law, University of Ottawa Press.

Professor Lisa Kerr published the chapter “Is Gladue Sentencing Exceptional?” in Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law, University of Ottawa Press.

Professor Erik S. Knutsen published the first and only Canadian insurance law casebook in 25 years: Canadian Law of Insurance: Cases, Notes and Materials (co-author, LexisNexis), as well as the 13th edition of his co-authored national treatise Canadian Tort Law (LexisNexis). He also published “Real-World Insurance Policy Interpretation in Canada” in the Canadian Business Law Journal, as well as “The Insurance Policy: Contract or Not? (and Why that Matters for Insurance Coverage Cases)” in the Supreme Court Law Review.

Professor Nicolas Lamp edited (and wrote the introduction for) Reckoning and Renewal: The World Trade Organization and its Dispute Settlement System at 30 (Essays in Honour of Valerie Hughes), University of Toronto Press. He also published “Arrested norm development: The failure of legislative-judicial dialogue in the WTO,” in the Leiden Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Ivan Ozai published “Beyond Economic Allegiance” in the University of Toronto Law Journal He also authored the chapter “Justiça tributária global na era da descentralização econômica” (“Global Tax Justice in the Age of Economic Decentralization”) in Novas metodologias de tributação: sua compatibilidade com a justiça na era digital (New taxation methodologies: Their compatibility with justice in the digital age).

Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar published a chapter, "The Political Obligations of Oppressed Citizens: Resistance, Refusal, and the Politics of Transformation" in The Morality in Law: Themes from the Work of Leslie Green (Oxford University Press). She also published two review essays: “Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice” for Punishment & Society and "What it means to live in a city of equals" for the LSE Review of Books blog

Professor Grégoire Webber authored “Gilead Constitutionalism” in The Morality in Law: Themes from the Work of Leslie Green (Oxford University Press) and co-authored “Section 1: Reasonable Limits” in The Canadian Constitutional Law Open Access Casebook (2nd ed, CanLII)

Professor Jacob Weinrib published “The Constitutional Significance of Human Dignity: What Exactly?” in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing)

Professor Robert Yalden joined the team of co-authors for the newly released Securities Law in Canada: Foundations, Policy, and Practice (4th Ed ), a leading text on the principles and regulation of issues in Canadian securities law markets. The new edition examines major developments and policy debates surrounding the role and regulation of securities markets.

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COURT CITATIONS

In upholding the constitutional validity of the provision of the Youth Criminal Justice Act allowing for youth courts to impose a communitybased deferred custody sentence, the Ontario Court of Appeal cited two editions of Professor Nicholas Bala’s book Youth Criminal Justice Law (with Judge Sanjeev Anand). These non-custodial options can often best achieve accountability, advance young people’s best interests, and protect the public, even for serious offences. Read the R. v. T.M., 2025 ONCA 862 decision.

In striking down a mandatory minimum sentence, the Supreme Court of Canada made repeated references to Professor Lisa Kerr’s article (co-authored with Michael Perlin, Law’09) “A New Justification for Section 12 Hypotheticals and Two Rules for Constructing Them” (Supreme Court Law Review). The article addresses how mandatory minimums can interact with the realities of plea bargaining, offering a novel justification for the use of the reasonable hypothetical methodology the Court explicitly adopted. Read the Quebec (Attorney General) v. Senneville decision.

Professor Robert Yalden was cited multiple times in the majority and minority decisions in a major Supreme Court decision on public company disclosure obligations, where the Court referred to his (co-authored) “Kerr v. Danier Leather Inc.: Disclosure, Deference and the Duty to Update Forward Looking Information” (Canadian Business Law Journal). Read the Lundin Mining Corp. v. Markowich decision.

IN THE NEWS / OPINION

Professor Sharry Aiken discussed “How Canada’s immigration system compares to the U.S. and U.K” with Global News. She also spoke to The Globe and Mail for its articles “More Canadians, including children, detained in U.S. for immigration violations, new data show” and “Trump’s halting of asylum claims prompts fresh calls to suspend Safe Third Country Agreement.”

Professor Nicholas Bala co-published “Bill C223 and parental alienation: Trust the judges, not the politicians,” in Law360. He also spoke with the CBC about “What happens when youth offenders face adult sentences” and with The #AskAndrew Program about “The voice of children in family court proceedings.”

Professor Samuel Dahan spoke to the CBC for its article “Should kidfluencers be banned? That’s the plan in the EU ”

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Professor Debra Haak co-authored “Sexmotivated violence should be treated as a hate crime” in The Conversation. (Also published in the The Hamilton Spectator, Waterloo Region Record, and The Brandon Sun.)

Professor Gail Henderson commented in the Toronto Star article “Ontario’s Grade 10 financial literacy requirement needs a rethink, critics say ”

Queen’s Law shone a light on the research of Professors Gail Henderson, Joshua Karton, Alyssa King, Ivan Ozai, and Robert Yalden in its article “Business law research shaping institutions in Canada and abroad.”

Professor Ardi Imseis was quoted in the CNN article “Western recognition won’t change the reality on the ground: A Palestinian state has never seemed further away.”

Professor Lisa Kerr co-authored an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail, “It's Time to Let Lawyers Come Back to the Supreme Court of Canada,” which sparked a national conversation and multiple follow-up media items about the SCC’s policies with respect to interveners. She also published an opinion piece in the Toronto Star, “Ontario’s jails are in no position to handle new restrictions on bail and that’s bad for everyone,” and spoke to The Globe and Mail for its article “Ottawa seeks to toughen laws on gender-based violence ” Kerr also discussed “Sentencing and the Prison and Jail Crisis” on the Law Break podcast with Shukairy Law

Professor Erik S. Knutsen spoke to the Toronto Star for its story “TDSB’s suit over devastating York Memorial fire can proceed.”

Professor Nicolas Lamp was featured in the Queen’s Law article “Shaping the future of trade law.”

Professor Kimberly Murray joined CBC News: Rosemary Barton Live to discuss progress of the TRC’s Calls to Action on the 10th anniversary of the publication of the commission’s final report. She also spoke to the CBC for its article “First Nations advocates disappointed as UN working group on enforced disappearances postpones visit” and spoke to The Tyee in two articles: “Canada Hasn’t Done Anything about Unmarked Graves Report, Interlocutor Says” and “What’s Canada Doing about Residential School Denialism?” On CBC’s Day 6, Murray explained why residential school denialism endures and why it will not prevail; and she was featured as the cover story of the Ontario Native Women’s Association’s She is Wise magazine.

Professor Robert Yalden was featured in the Queen’s Law article “Structuring M&A deals in a high-stakes corporate landscape ”

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LLM / PHD / POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH

DEFENCES

LLM student Oishik Bhattacharya (supervisor Professor Lisa Kerr) successfully defended his LLM thesis at his oral final examination. His thesis, “From Discretion to Entitlement: Lessons from Canada's Fragmented Compensation Framework for Wrongful Conviction,” explores the landscape for compensation for wrongful conviction in Canada, and argues for certain aspects of the Canadian system to be implemented in India.

IN THE NEWS

PRESENTATIONS

PhD candidates Oyindamola Aje and Deepti Panda were featured in the Queen’s Law article “Doctoral research tackles global challenges in international investment law ” The article discusses their research into how international investment law intersects with two urgent global challenges sovereigns in an economic crisis and climate action to help shape policies that protect public interests worldwide.

PhD candidate Lauraine Darkwah, through her initiative The Arbitration Pitch (TAP), a dual-purpose platform for mentoring young arbitration pros and sharing expert insights, convened a conference in Accra, Ghana, dubbed the Disputes Convocation. The event gathered experts to equip young professionals for their dispute resolution practice.

Dr. Stanley U. Nweke-Eze, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, along with Professor Joshua Karton, presented a paper titled “Dealer’s Choice: Will Treatification Give Way to Contractualization in International Investment Law?” at an academic workshop titled “After the Backlash: The Future of Arbitration in the Settlement of Investment, Trade and Human Rights Disputes” in Quebec City. He also presented “Assessing the Role of Performance Requirements in Promoting Corporate Accountability in International Investment Law: Perspectives from Canada-Africa Investment Treaties” at the Canadian Forum for Business and Human Rights at the University of Manitoba Nweke-Eze was also appointed a co-director of Young ICCA’s mentoring program for two years Young ICCA is a global network for young practitioners in international arbitration Its mentoring program connects young professionals with experienced mentors