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Congratulations to Four Trailblazers! Celebrating Our 2020 Alumni Award Winners (See Page 56) Queen’s LAW REPORTS ONLINE OCTOBER 2020 Congratulations to four trailblazers! Celebrating our 2020 alumni award winners (see page 56) Planning for the future Faculty begins charting its next five years and welcomes input (see page 38) Bursary for Black students launched Student-initiated award commemorates first Black graduate(see page 42) CONTENTS COVER STORY FEATURES Queen’s LAW REPORTS ONLINE Queen’s Law Reports Online DEAN’S COUNCIL MEMBERS is a periodic electronic update of David Sharpe, Law’95 Chair Queen’s Law Reports magazine President and CEO published by Bridging Finance Inc. QUEEN’S FACULTY OF LAW Sheila A. Murray, Law’82 (Com’79) Past Chair MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Coroporate Director Macdonald Hall CI Financial Corp. Queen’s University Peter Brady, Law’96 38 Queen’s Law begins charting its next five Partner Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 years and welcomes input law.queensu.ca McCarthy Tétrault LLP James Dorr, Law’87 (Artsci’84) Dean Mark Walters invites all members Editor General Counsel & Secretary of the Queen’s Law community to Orbis Investment Management Ltd. Lisa Graham, Com’88, Artsci’92, MPA’08 participate in a consultation process for Manager of Communications Peter Griffin, Law’77 Counsel the school’s Strategic Plan 2021-25. Tel: 613.533.6000, ext. 74259 Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Fax: 613.533.6611 Jennifer Keenan, Law’90 Email: [email protected] Chair, Board of Directors Dignitas International Contributors Jaimie Lickers, Law’07 (Artsci’03) Ken Cuthbertson, Law’83 Partner Phil Gaudreau Gowling WLG Mike Onesi Lucy Schafer Allan McGavin, Law’12 (Com’08) Associate Matt Shepherd Farris LLP Zabrina Testa Kelley McKinnon, Law’88 (Artsci’85) Fellow, Advanced Leadership Initiative 2020, Harvard University Design + Production 56 Congratulations to award-winning trailblazers! 40 Anti-racism group gets down to work Amanda Black Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees, Queen's University Kristin J. Morch, Law’85 (Artsci’80) A “powerful” woman executive, a young litigator already a A working group of students, faculty, General Counsel public voice, an Indigenous Treaty expert, and a warrior for staff, and alumni is considering racism Continental Saxon Group victims of domestic violence have something in common. generally, giving particular attention to Anton Sahazizian, Law’94 They are the 2020 winners of the four coveted Queen’s Law Managing Director, Head of U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions the relationship between legal education alumni awards. Queen’s Moelis & Company at and anti-Black racism. Stephen Shamie, Law’86 Managing Partner Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP 42 Students initiate bursary for Black law students R. Paul Steep, Law’80 (Artsci’77) Partner The Black Law McCarthy Tétrault LLP Students’ Association Richard Tory, Law’89 - Queen’s Chapter Managing Director & Head of Canadian Investment Banking DEPARTMENTS and Queen’s Pre-Law Morgan Stanley Patrice Walch-Watson, Law’91 2 SCHOOL NEWS Society reached out Senior Managing Director, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary to their networks to ON THE COVER Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 84 Record-breaking year for clerkships initiate a bursary Congratulations to the 44 QUEEN’S LAW Frank E. Walwyn, Law’93 Fifteen of Queen’s Law’s finest have fund for Black JD winners of this year’s alumni Partner CLINICS NEWS been selected to clerk for some of students that awards: Betty DelBianco, WeirFoulds LLP Law’84, Asher Honickman, Alan Whyte, Law’79 (Artsci’76) 66 ALUMNI NEWS the greatest legal minds across the commemorates Law’10, Loretta Ross, Law’89, Partner country, including three at the Cecil Allan Fraser, QC, Law’61, the first and Pamela Cross, Law’93. Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP 82 STUDENT NEWS Supreme Court of Canada. Black Queen’s Law student and graduate. (Photo of hand-blown glass The Hon. Darla Wilson, Law’84 (Artsci’81) awards by Greg Black) Justice Superior Court of Justice OCTOBER 2020 1 SCHOOL NEWS Queen’s faculty part of $2.5M project to design childcare policies for diverse Canadian families Access to affordable childcare is one of the biggest diverse Canadian families. These include Indigenous, obstacles to income equality in Canada. The COVID racialized, newcomer, single-parent, LGBTQI2S, low- crisis has magnified just how crucial the need for income, rural, and student families, and those with childcare resources are as some parents must work children who have disabilities. remotely, while others are spending long shifts in Lahey and Pasolli are contributing to projects in demanding jobs like those in health care and the childcare cluster and Lahey is also co-leading a essential services. The impact of these issues on project on taxation, law, and family policy that society is all too familiar to Queen’s Law professors crosses all three core issues. Kathleen Lahey and Bita Amani and Queen’s History professor Lisa Pasolli. Now, they’re doing something “Women are now facing basically double and triple about it as part of a major international, care burdens due to the specific ways the pandemic interdisciplinary research team. is affecting work locations and conditions,” explains Lahey. “Using new unpaid data figures that are They’re participating in the project, “What is the starting to emerge, we will apply microsimulation Best Policy Mix for Diverse Canadian Families with analytic code to all of the new insights into women’s Young Children? Re-imagining Family Polices,” increasing work time regarding COVID in order to which has been awarded a $2.5 million Partnership statistically compare with traditional unpaid work Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities practices/situations/hours in non-COVID years. Research Council of Canada. “That will also explain why Alberta women, who “Government budgets are even less able face the largest income gaps in the country due to Professors Kathleen Lahey and Bita Amani (on behalf of FLSQ) of Queen’s Law and Professor Lisa Pasolli of Queen’s History are part of an international, to address the complex and more intensified high demand for highly-paid fossil fuel industries, interdisciplinary research team that aims to “bring about transformative changes that recognize women’s productive capacities and to support diverse will be losing even more paid work hours during the Canadian families with members needing care.” forms of women’s unpaid care work COVID crisis than they did before, thus losing even needs to be re-imagined in both pandemic and The project will produce childcare policies designed during the COVID-19 pandemic. more ground regarding gender equality unless the post-pandemic conditions. Safe care and safe work by researchers for diverse families. The research government does something dramatic about their conditions are now forcing parents to make painful team is composed of 29 co-investigators, 24 high childcare costs,” she continues. This project will identify multiple new trends and sometimes dangerous choices.” collaborators, and 34 partners from Canadian universities, non-profit organizations, international and the role Canada is playing Professor Amani, who with Lahey, is among the For each of the three core issues – childcare organizations, government departments, unions, and original co-founders of Feminist Legal Studies services, parental leave policies, and employment versus other countries these days.” Queen’s a private sector company. More than 70 undergraduate (FLSQ), will be involving students, faculty, policies – researchers will explore four key questions: — PROFESSOR KATHLEEN LAHEY and members of the Kingston community in FLSQ and graduate students and several postdoctoral research and conferences during the project. How are current Canadian childcare, parental fellows will be trained. Queen’s leave, and employment policies structured, “Government budgets are too small to fund “Feminist Legal Studies is delighted to take “This partnership project advances a key theme in financed and delivered, and what can we learn adequate childcare let alone universal childcare in this lead in working with this foundational, Queen’s Strategic Research Plan: Securing Successful from national and international research? ‘normal’ times,” says Lahey. “These budgets are even collaborative, and interdisciplinary partnership study and Just Societies through Scholarship, Governance, less able to address the complex and more intensified to advance gender equality in Canadian law and What impacts do Canadian policies have on and Policy,” says Queen’s University’s Vice-Principal forms of women’s unpaid care work during the policy,” says Amani. “This work promises to bring how diverse families live, work and care for (Research) Kimberly Woodhouse. “We are very COVID-19 pandemic. This project will identify about transformative changes that recognize their children and what can we learn from their pleased to support the work of Professors Lahey, multiple new trends and the role Canada is playing women’s productive capacities and support all lived experiences? Pasolli and Amani in this important area of research.” versus other countries these days.” Canadian families with members needing care.” What approaches and data are needed to measure “I am delighted that our faculty members are The seven-year research project is led by Brock Professor Pasolli, who will be examining the long the effectiveness and inclusiveness of these deeply involved in this large-scale interdisciplinary University professor Andrea Doucet, Canada Research history of debates about using tax measures to family policies? project with the ultimate goal of bringing about a Chair in Gender, Work and Care, and will study how deliver child care benefits in Canada, points out Queen’s What is the best policy mix for Canada’s diverse society that is more just,” says Law Dean three core issues – childcare services, parental leave that this project is even more relevant during the Mark Walters. “The timing couldn’t be better.” pandemic: “COVID-19 reveals that care work families with young children? policies, and employment policies – have an impact on — LISA GRAHAM 2 QUEEN’S LAW REPORTS ONLINE OCTOBER 2020 3 Research Profile: Making taxes work for all Professor Kathleen Lahey has an issue with taxes.
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