Education technology innovator is new Assistant Dean of Students
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded “Insight Development Grants” to two faculty members. Professor Lisa Kelly, a criminal law expert, received a twoyear $55,000 grant to study the controversial issue of whether police should patrol school hallways and yards. For her Professor Lisa Kelly research project, “Police Powers in Canada’s Schools,” she will produce the country’s first extensive study on the topic from a legal perspective. Her in-depth analysis will include constitutional issues raised by police searches, investigations, detentions and arrests. Professor Beverley Baines, Law’73, is principal investigator for a two-year study awarded a $41,000 grant. For her project, “No Rights Are Absolute: the legacies of three Professor Beverley Chief Justices,” Baines, Law’73 she and collaborator Dr. Jenna Sapiano of Monash University in Australia will examine decisions by former SCC Chief Justices Brian Dickson, Antonio Lamer and Beverley McLachlin.
Laura Kinderman, PhD’15, a leader in educational development and research at Queen’s over the past decade, joined the Law Faculty on Jan. 1 as Assistant Dean of Students. Prior to this appointment, she was Associate Director of the Faculty of Health Sciences’ undergraduate program, leading the planning, development and delivery of several initiatives, including the new online Bachelor of Health Sciences program. For her outstanding leadership in innovative uses of technology in teaching and learning, she received the School of Laura Kinderman, PhD’15 Medicine’s 2017 H.F. Pross Educational Technology Award. In addition to her doctoral degree in English Language and Literature, she has an MA (Dalhousie, 2006) and an Honours BA (Victoria, 2004), and is pursuing her Executive MBA from the Smith School of Business.
Record year for Supreme Court clerkships Four Queen’s Law community members will be heading to Canada’s highest court in 2020-21. • Paul Warchuk, Law’15, who began as a law clerk to Justice David Stratas, Law’84, at the Federal Court of Appeal, earned an LLM (Harvard, 2017) and, now a PhD candidate (Cambridge), will be clerk to SCC Justice Suzanne Côté. • Elliot Herzig, Law’17, is starting a Federal Court of Appeal clerkship in August before he clerks for SCC Justice Clément Gascon’s successor. • Paul Socka, Law’18, who articled with the Crown Law Office - Criminal and is spending 2019-20 clerking at the Ontario Court of Appeal, will clerk at the SCC for Justice Andromache Karakatsanis. • Megan Pfiffer, Law’19, an articling student with Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, will clerk for SCC Justice Rosalie Abella.
Paul Warchuk, Law’15 Elliot Herzig, Law’17
Paul Socka, Law’18
Megan Pfiffer, Law’19
This year’s Stanley M. Corbett Awards for Excellence in Teaching were presented on April 1. Professor Jacob Weinrib, a full-time faculty member since 2015, received the award for lectures his student nominators called “energetic, engaging, funny, compelling, and perfectly crafted to deliver the ideal amount of information.” Hugh Adsett, Law’93, long-time International Law Programs teacher at the Castle’s BISC, earned the award for his first year as a sessional instructor on-campus. His nominators said, “He sets a lively environment to encourage student debate, and designs creative exercises and simulation programs to allow students to participate and engage with the class in a fun way.”
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LSS awards recognize excellent teachers
Professor Jacob Weinrib and lecturer Hugh Adsett, Law’93, winners of the LSS’s 2018-19 Corbett teaching awards. QUEEN’S LAW REPORTS 7
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Research grants for developing insights