Queen's Faculty of Law: QLaw Pod

On Monday January 20, 2025, we recorded the Law'80 Visiting Lecture with Sanaa Ahmed. Sanaa's talk was on Canada’s money laundering problem: Is TD the exception or the rule? Description: Waves of self-recrimination have plagued Canada since U.S. regulators slapped TD Bank with the largest fine in U.S. banking history. TD’s C-suite is under fire for conspiring to launder, as are Canadian regulators...

In this encore presentation, we discuss student tenant’s rights and house party laws with the Executive Director, Queen's Law Clinics and Director, Queen's Legal Aid, Blair Crew.

Contextual Informed Consent Experiences of treatment failure can temporarily render patients willing to accept ever-increasing risks and costs. Not only does the doctrine of informed consent not acknowledge the potential impact of experience-sensitive preferences on patients’ decisions, but it relies on patients to bring suit to vindicate their rights to disclosure. This paper proposes an alternat...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises – the Engines of the Economy but the overlooked Dispute Resolution Stakeholders. The talk/lecture will explore the contracting and dispute resolution behaviour of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and assess whether the current available legal frameworks are fit for purpose to encourage SMEs to take part in global trade. Their participation in global trad...

The Prospects and Progress of ‘Green’ Transitional Justice Environmental destruction can be a source and a consequence of conflict, atrocity, and repression. Violence and the environment have a complex relationship which extends far beyond the end of hostilities. Yet responses to such harms are often invisible or under-theorized in the field of transitional justice. This is starting to change, bot...

Climate Change as Unjust Enrichment The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of our generation. Significant disruptions to our ecological systems inevitably disrupt our social and economic systems as well. Where regulatory measures and international treaties have fallen short in tackling climate change, climate litigation has seeks to fill the gaps through the court system. Typically relying o...

Visiting speaker Richard Moon (Windsor Law) presents his new book, “The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression,” at #QueensULaw. He argues that freedom of expression is valuable because our ideas and feelings take shape when given linguistic form and conveyed to others. This understanding of expression is critical to understanding both its value and its potential harms. The rise of social media h...

In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Queen’s Law hosted a talk by incoming faculty member Kimberly Murray, the federally appointed Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites. Murray discussed her July 2024 report, Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience, with Queen’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni in Grant Hall and onlin...

Evening Keynote - Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation - Tabatha Bull, President & CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business This is a recording from the February 10th evening session of the Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation. The final keynote of the conference was done as a fireside chat with Tabatha Bull, CEO and President of the Canadian Council of Aboriginal...

Morning Keynote – Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation – Dr. Jeff Corntassel, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Victoria This is a recording from the February 10th morning session of the Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation. To kick off the podcast, you will hear a welcome message from the conference team, a local elder, and Dean Colleen Flood, before speak...

Listen to the new Queen’s Bench podcast “Think like a Bay Street Lawyer,” where #QueensULaw student hosts Mukhtar Hindi and Alex Beauchamp interview McMillan LLP partner Michael Whitcombe, Law’85. Mike, who is renowned for his expertise in private equity law, provides a compelling narrative of his transition from law school to the forefront of legal practice. “Join us as Mike not only shares his p...

In this week’s episode, Afsheen chats with Aisha Hussain, a Law’19 grad about her law school experience being a Muslim student at the faculty. As a law student, Aisha founded the (QMLSA), the Queen's Muslim Law Students Association, that strived to build a community of Muslim law students and legal professionals. For the past 5 years Aisha has been working at the City of Toronto. She holds the pos...

As many in Kingston and across Canada know, there is a crisis in access to primary care services. Come out to hear leading experts in health and artificial intelligence discuss the opportunities and challenges for artificial intelligence to help address this crisis. Issues covered will include generative AI, safety, privacy, labour law and policy, and more. Speakers Dean Colleen M. Flood Queen's L...

In the latest episode of What’s Next, host Afsheen chats with John McIntyre, Co-Founder and Principal Lawyer at McIntyre Szabo PC a #QueensU Law’14, about his career path, identity and his journey into healthcare law.

Welcome to a transformative episode of the Queensbench Podcast, where we dive deep into the heart of the law school journey, emphasizing that it's a marathon, not a sprint. In this episode, we explore the pivotal moments and strategies that shape a law student's career, from tackling the initial challenges of 1L midterms to the strategic approach of course selection and the invaluable experience o...

Research Participation for Adults Lacking Capacity to Consent International lessons to inform the implementation of advance research planning for adults who may lack capacity to consent Legal frameworks governing research with adults lacking capacity to consent require that proxy decisions about research participation represent the person’s wishes about taking part in a study. A number of countrie...

This talk will provide an overview of the evolution in Canadian criminal law’s approach to the existence of anti-Black racism, from resistance to acknowledgment. Students will then engage in an exercise of building a toolkit which contributes to this evolution: From summarizing key cases that define what anti-Black racism looks like before the criminal justice system to researching novel ways in o...

In this week’s episode, Afsheen chats with Justice Donald McLeod, Law’95, who is also an adjunct professor at Queen’s Law where he teaches both Trial Advocacy and Critical Race Theory. As a law student, Justice Mcleod was Class VP and Queen’s Chapter President of the Black Law Students’ Association of Canada. After being called to the bar in 1998, Justice Donald Mcleod began practicing criminal la...

On the latest QLaw Pod, we will be joined by Sinead Dunne, Law’24 (Conference Co-Chair), Braedan Downer (Tech & Logistics Co-Ordinator) and Reuben McHenry, Law’24 (Speaker Co-ordinator) as we discuss the upcoming 5th annual Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation – Innovative Collaboration, taking place on February 9 and 10, 2024. The 2024 Conference will focus on new and radical ways that...

In this special live episode of What’s Next recorded at CFRC, host Afsheen chats with Colonel Dylan Kerr, CD, Queen’s Law’09, about his appointment as the Director of Military Prosecutions in the Canadian Armed Forces and how law students can start a career path to become a military legal officer.

Incapacity Planning and End-of-Life Decision-Making: A Primer Life expectancy has been increasing for Canadians for some time. It is presently estimated that women in Canada will have an average life expectancy of about 84 years and men of about 80 years, with some regional variation. As a result, demographics have shifted given that much of the population is now expected to live to very advanced...

Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation Join authors/lawyers Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) and Andrew Stobo Sniderman for a discussion about their book, Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation, moderated by Prof. Lindsay Borrows. This book follows multiple generations of two families, one white and o...

Does Artificial Intelligence Have the Right to Freedom of Speech? Join Professor Cass R. Sunstein of Harvard Law School for the 2024 Marcus-Matalon Lecture on U.S. Law. Professor Sunstein is a leading American legal scholar, who has also served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and as a member of both President Barack Obama’s Review Board on Intellige...

Andrew Green The Time Has Come: The Intersection of Law, Time and Climate Change Time poses a challenge to climate change law and policy -- how can we design our laws and institutions to induce sufficient action now to take account of past emissions and future harms? The relationship between the courts and the other main institutional players -- the legislature, the executive and the markets -- pr...

The need for effective climate action is clear. However, progress is slow and the window of opportunity to avoid the worst impacts of climate change is closing. To address the opportunity from a legal perspective, Queen’s Law brought together legal scholars from Canada and the U.S. for a December 1-2 conference titled “Institutions for Effective Climate Action: An International & Comparative Persp...