Laqueenw’s reports HONOURING OUR OWN: Justice David Stratas is Faculty’s 13th member honoured with a Queen’s LLD 2012 queen’s Lareportsw CONTENTS Queen’s Law Reports is published annually by HONOURING OUR OWN: QUEEN’S FACULTY OF LAW 8 At the 2012 Spring Convocation, Macdonald Hall Justice David Stratas, Law ’84, Queen’s University became the Faculty’s 13th Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613.533.6000, ext. 74259 member to be awarded an Fax: 613.533.6611 honorary Doctor of Laws degree Clarkd Bernar Clarkd Email: [email protected] by Queen’s University. Website: http://law.queensu.ca/ By Sheldon Gordon EDITOR Lisa Graham, Com ‘88, Artsci ‘92, MPA ‘08 42 Manager of Records, Registration and Communications EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Catherine M. Perkins, Arts ‘58 CONTRIBUTORS esideWhiten esideWhiten Viki Andrevska, BA Georgie Binks, Artsci ‘75 Lisa Bruni, BJ, Law ‘14 Dianne Butler Jordan Furlong, BA, Law ‘93 REUTERS/Darr Matthew Gibson, BA, Law ‘12 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Sheldon Gordon, BA, MA Rower Morgan Jarvis, Law ’10, and sailor-turned-reporter John Curtis, Law ’95, Anita Jansman, BA were right in the thick of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Mark Kerr, BA By Georgie Binks Matthew Kersten, BA, Law ‘14 Kirsteen MacLeod, BAA THE GREAT LEGAL Deanna Morash, BA, LLB Gillian Ready, BA, Law ‘87 44 MARKETPLACE EARTHQUAKE Alec Ross, BJ Jordan Furlong, Law ’93, provides a summary of major changes DESIGN + PRODUCTION rocking the legal marketplace Queen’s Creative Services and advises how you can prepare for them. 1 DEAN’S MESSAGE 2 SCHOOL NEWS 17 SPRING CONVOCATION 20 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 22 SUPPORTING EXCELLENCE ON THE COVER: 30 FACULTY FOCUS Justice David Stratas, Law ’84, is applauded by Chancellor David Dodge, Arts ’65, LLD ’02, 32 IN MEMORIAM and Dean Bill Flanagan upon being 34 ALUMNI FOCUS awarded an honorary degree at the 2012 47 ALUMNI NOTES Spring Convocation. Photo by Bernard Clark DEAN’S MESSAGE onvocation is always a special time of the academic year, and never more Cso than when we have the opportunity to bestow Queen’s highest academic honour, an honorary degree, on one of our graduates. This spring we were delighted to do just that, honouring with an lld Justice David Stratas, Law ’84, a tremendous friend of the school over the years and a beloved sessional instructor. I was reflecting on the many extraordinary graduates of the Faculty of Law who have been so honoured over the years. We did a little digging and discovered two very early llb graduates, one from 1863 and one from 1896, who were the first law alumni to receive honorary degrees. In all, the University has recognized 13 members of the Queen’s Law community for their extraordinary service to society. In this year’s Queen’s Law Reports, we celebrate that proud legacy. Other 2011-12 milestones involve our Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, which hosted its first major conference this spring, with a keynote address from Justice Thomas Cromwell, Law ’76, lld ’10. With a leadership gift of $250,000 from Gowling Lafleur Henderson llp, we have now raised almost $500,000 in suppor t of the Faculty’s first funded research Centre. We were pleased to name the “Gowlings Atrium” in honour of this generous gift. We raised more than $1.2 million in gifts and pledges for the Faculty in 2011-12, the most successful year in its history. In fact, the last five have all been record- breaking $1-million-plus years, more than tripling previous annual donor support. My term as Dean will end in July 2013. During my tenure, which began in 2005, the Faculty has reached new heights, including significantly enhanced fundraising, the establishment of our PhD program, new combined degree programs with the School of Business and the Department of Economics, a new Business Law Clinic, the founding of our first funded research centre, the dramatic expansion of our international programs and profile, and increased levels of research output from our faculty members. According to the most recent Maclean’s ranking of Canadian law schools, Queen’s now places proudly among Canada’s top three law schools, the highest ranking the Faculty has obtained since the list was first published in 2007. With this record of success, I have no doubt that the Faculty is well placed to recruit Stephen Wild Stephen a new Dean who will build on these accomplishments and continue to raise the Faculty to new levels. Over my tenure as Dean, I have had the opportunity to work closely with many of our loyal alumni in support of the Faculty. However, there is one person who deserves special mention. David Allgood, Law ’74, Executive VP and General Counsel, Royal Bank of Canada, served as the Chair of the Dean’s Council for four years, from 2008 until 2012. He has graciously agreed to remain on the Council as Past-Chair for another two years. This spring, we were delighted to recognize his many contributions to the Faculty by presenting him with the H.R.S. Ryan Alumni Award. David is held in the highest regard by the legal profession and his colleagues. He was instrumental in helping me re-engage our alumni in the life of the school, with spectacular results. Thank you, David, for your loyal and generous support of Queen’s Law. It has been an honour to serve as Dean of such a distinguished law school. Its future is bright, and only more so due to the loyal ongoing support of our alumni. Many thanks to all of you, and I hope you enjoy reading this years’ Queen’s Law Reports. Bill Flanagan Dean and Professor of Law Queen’s Law Reports 1 SCHOOL NEWS Dean’s tireless international advocacy recognized by Ontario AIDS Network Dean Bill Flanagan was “very honoured” to receive the Community Partners Award from the Ontario aids Network at its annual gala in Toronto last November. The Honour Roll Awards Banquet, which celebrates outstanding leadership and achievement within the hiv/aids movement in Ontario, was “a great evening with friends and colleagues I’ve worked with over the years,” Flanagan says. “We reflected on how far we’ve come together, and the difficult challenges ahead.” The Community Partners Award recognizes those who, through resources, research or treatment, improve quality of life and dignity for Bruno Bini people living with hiv/aids. Award presenter Dr. Dean Bill Flanagan delivers his acceptance speech for the Community Partners Award Sean Rourke, Scientific and Executive Director from the Ontario AIDS Network in Toronto on November 12, 2011. of the Ontario hiv Treatment Network, described Flanagan as a tireless advocate. regarded as one of Canada’s leading hiv-related research “As a law professor, aids activist, and now, as Dean of organizations.” Queen’s Faculty of Law, Bill has had a significant impact in Another personal highlight was his service from 2001 to Ontario, across Canada and internationally,” Rourke said. “His 2004 as Executive Director and co-founder of the Canada aids work relates to promoting human rights for people living with Russia Project – an hiv/aids training and research project HIV, examining such legal issues as corporate responsibility sponsored by the Canadian International Development and access to medications, and developing and building the Agency. capacity of organizations working within the hiv sector.” Currently, Flanagan’s focus is on China. “We’ve been Asked about the accomplishment most significant to him, working with vulnerable populations in Shanghai, particularly Flanagan replied: “It may have been the work I did as President with sex workers and migrant workers. I’ve been taking the of the Board at the Ontario hiv Treatment Network from 2003 lead on the legal and policy research: for example, challenges to 2008.” When he arrived, he recalls, there was “a sense the around living with hiv in China, including stigma and organization was adrift and needed a new direction.” Strategic discrimination, and the important role of ngos in hiv planning resulted in profound, positive change to “what is now prevention and care.” – Kirsteen MacLeod Professor Don Stuart receives top criminal justice award Professor Don Stuart has been named the 2012 recipient of the the award since it was established G. Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Award given by the Criminal in 1989. Alan D. Gold, Law ’70, Lawyers’ Association for outstanding contributions to criminal won in 1997 and Donald Bayne, justice. The presentation was made at a luncheon during the Law ’69, in 2006. cla’s annual conference at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Following the award ceremony, Eaton Centre Hotel on November 17. alumni, friends, faculty and staff Named after one of the foremost jurists and criminal celebrated Don Stuart’s achievement Bur hctAimee advocates in Canadian history, it is considered the country’s and the Queen’s criminal law most coveted award in the field. Stuart joins an impressive program at a cocktail reception at group of past recipients, including three from the Supreme the National Club. Court of Canada: former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer, Justice Watch for the feature news Professor Don Stuart, Morris Fish and (retired) Justice Louise Arbour. Stuart will be story in the fall issue of e-News Martin Award winner, the third member of the Queen’s Law community to receive and in Queen’s Law Reports 2013. at Spring Convocation 2 Queen’s Law Reports SCHOOL NEWS PhD research on Charter rights of women wins Kerri Froc major Trudeau and Vanier awards Kerri Froc, a second-year doctoral student at Queen’s Law, has won two major scholarships to pursue her research on women’s equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.