Table of Contents • Coming up at Queen's Law • Important Dates • Classroom Changes • Awards & Scholarships • Career Development • Convocation/Graduation Information • International Exchanges • The Moot Court Program • Events • FLSQ LECTURES • Invitation to Participate in Research (JD students only) • Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching

Coming up at Queen's Law Monday, January 7, 2019

• The first day of classes • Exchange Academic Orientation - Room 211, 1:00 to 2:30

Thursday, January 10, 2019

• Winter term fees due for students not receiving financial aid

Friday, January 11, 2019

• Last day to apply for the 2019 - 2020 outgoing exchange application (more information below)

• Coffee Chat - Professor Nick Bala, Faculty Lounge, 3:00 pm (more information below)

Monday, January 14, 2019

• Exchange Reception - Faculty Lounge, 1:00 to 2:30

Important Dates: January 10: Winter term fees due for students not receiving financial aid

January 18: Last date to add a class on solus

January 31: Winter term fees due for students receiving financial aid

February 6: Last date to drop a class on solus

Course Information Updates Please, continue to check dates & timetables on the Queen's Law website, as classes may continue to change locations and times until the new semester.

The following courses have been cancelled for the Winter 2019 term:

• Law 354: Food Law and Governance • Law 451: Trademarks & Unfair Comp. • Law 564: Pensions And The Law

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Giovanna Crocco at croccog@queensu.ca or at 613-533-6000 ext. 75795

Reschedule

• Law 263 will now be taught by Professor Sigalet on Thursdays from 2:30 to 5:30 from February 28 to April 4.

New room/time changes

• Law 511 - Sorensen: Room 300, Friday's 11:30 to 2:30 • Law 135B - Section 006: Room 003, Friday's 11:30 to 1:00 • Law 457 - Lamp & Hughes: Room 211, Tuesday's 11:30 to 2:30 • Law 342 – Whiteknight: Room 211, Monday’s 5:30 to 8:30 • Law 542 - Robinson: Room 400, Monday’s 2:30 to 5:30 • Law 167B – Pratt: Room 004, Monday’s 2:30 to 4:00

Awards & Scholarships Click the link for all funding opportunities and contests: https://onq.queensu.ca/d2l/le/62177/discussions/topics/344784/View

JD Level Studies:

Application extension until Tuesday, January 15, 2019.

Program Dates: May 25 - June 7, 2019.

Fully-funded: All program costs are covered, including travel, lodging, and food.

Interdisciplinary: FASPE Law Fellows travel with Fellows in the FASPE Business and Journalism programs

Itinerary: Fellows will travel to Berlin, Krakow and Oswiecim (the location of the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz).

Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled in a JD or LLM (or equivalent) program OR have received such a degree between May 2017 and January 2019.

FASPE programs are non-denominational. Candidates of all nationalities, religions, and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. FASPE Law is a fully-funded, two-week fellowship program in professional ethics and ethical leadership that begins by examining the actions and choices of German lawyers in enabling and implementing Nazi policies. It then draws on this historical example to help Law Fellows grasp their role as influencers in their field and in their communities as well as identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing lawyers and the legal

profession. The program takes place in Germany and Poland at the sites of Nazi actions, allowing Fellows to benefit from the power of the place and immersive, contextual learning.

To learn more about FASPE and to apply, please visit: http://www.faspe-ethics.org/how-to-apply/

For a list of previous Fellows, please visit http://www.faspe-ethics.org/fellows-by-year/

Completed applications are due by Tuesday, January 15, 2019. If you have any questions, please contact Ellen Gilley, Director of Programs & Strategy at egilley@faspe-ethics.org. $2,500 Legal Writing Prize - Deadline May 31, 2019 For the past three years our organization, Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association, has offered an annual $2,500 prize for an essay promoting freedom of expression or the freedom of the press. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2019. All law students in Canadian law schools (LL.B/JD or LL.M candidates who will graduate in 2019 or later) are eligible. Past winners (from UofT, UBC, and UofA) and their papers are here and here and here.

Advocates In Defence of Expression in Media/Canadian Media Lawyers Association is dedicated to the promotion and protection of freedom of expression throughout Canada. Our objective is “to reaffirm every day, in every court in our country, the importance of these freedoms”. Ad IDEM/CMLA offers annually the Ad IDEM Writing Prize for a paper promoting freedom of expression.

Deadline: May 31, 2019. The winner will be announced by September 2019.

For information click here: https://onq.queensu.ca/d2l/le/62177/discussions/threads/2530612/View

Canada-China Scholars' Exchange Program 2019-2020 - Deadline March 1, 2019 Global Affairs Canada and the Chinese Ministry of Education are offering short-term scholarships to Canadians wishing to study abroad in China. Scholarships are awarded for studies, research, language studies or a combination of studies and language studies at participating Chinese institutions.

• Program name: Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program • Funding organizations: Global Affairs Canada and the Ministry of Education of

the People’s Republic of China • Target audiences: Canadian students (college, undergraduate and graduate

levels in Canada); Canadian faculty members and research staff at a post-secondary institution in Canada; Canadian mid-career professionals

• Number of scholarships: Over 20 • Duration: 4 to 12 months for students; and 8 weeks to 12 months for faculty

members and mid-career professionals • Inclusions: Airfare, tuition fees, monthly living stipend, on-campus

accommodation and medical insurance • Deadline: March 1, 2019

For full program details and to submit an online application, visit: Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program. All inquiries regarding this program should be directed to: scholarships-bourses@cbie.ca or 613-237-4820. Subscribe to the International Scholarships RSS feed to be kept informed of competition dates and other news relating to the International Scholarships Program of Global Affairs Canada. Please do not hesitate to forward this information to your networks.

$1000 Construction Law Writing prize -Submissions due Jan. 15 2019

The J. Stephen Tatrallyay Memorial Award is given by the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers ("CCCL") to a law student selected by the CCCL in its sole and absolute discretion based on the criteria below. The late Stephen Tatrallyay was one of the leading construction lawyers in Canada and a past President and Founding Fellow of the CCCL. Stephen was well known for his consistent contributions to the body of literature in the area of construction law. This Award was created in memory of Stephen and to encourage law students to prepare and submit a paper for consideration by the CCCL. The law student with the successful submission will:

(i) Receive a $1,000 Award;

(ii) Have their paper published in the Journal of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers which has been published annually since 2007; and

(iii) Be featured in the Articles section of the CCCL website.

More details here: https://onq.queensu.ca/d2l/le/62177/discussions/threads/2377542/View Graduate Academic Legal Studies: The Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS)

The Queen’s University OGS competition is open to any eligible graduate student registered in or any eligible applicant to, a graduate program in the School of Graduate Studies. The Queen’s OGS award must be taken up at Queen’s; it is not transferable to another institution.

Scholarship Value: $15,000 for one academic year, normally paid out in 3 equal installments. The award is not renewable.

For more information about applying to OGS https://www.queensu.ca/sgs/prospective-students/applying-scholarships/ontario-graduate-scholarship

SGPS Grants

sgps.ca/sgps-grants

Career Development Clerkships

If you plan to apply to a clerkship, and haven’t notified the CDO, please do so today: https://law-queens-csm.symplicity.com/surveys/2020clerkship Deadlines to apply: Tax Court of Canada – January 11 Supreme Court of Canada – documents due to CDO by January 11 Court of Appeal for Ontario - documents due to CDO by January 11 Federal Court of Appeal / Federal Court /Court Martial Appeal Court - January 14 British Columbia Court of Appeal / Supreme Court – January 18 Ontario Superior Court – January 24 1L & 2L Formal Recruitment Processes IMPORTANT DATES:

NEXT STEPS:

• Review the following tip sheets in the CSM document library:

1. Ottawa & Kingston Summer Recruitment and OCI Guide 2019

2. The Toronto Summer 2019 First Year Recruitment Guide 3. Calgary and Edmonton 1L Summer 2019 4. London 1L and 2L Summer Application Guide 2019 5. Submitting Applications 6. Cover Letters 7. Resumes 8. Transcripts and Lists of Upper-Year Courses

CDO Sessions & Events You must RSVP in CSM at least 48 hours before an event if you plan to attend.

• Wednesday, January 9 at 10:30am - 2L Summer Job Search Session • Friday, January 11 – Ottawa & Kingston Employers’ Reception • Monday, January 14 – Cunningham Swan Student Reception – Must RSVP in

CSM by 4pm today

If you are interested in working as a summer student or articling student in Kingston, please join Cunningham Swan LLP for an evening reception to meet our lawyers and to learn more about our opportunities for summering, articling and beyond.

• Tuesday, January 15 – 1L Self-Assessment & Career Exploration Session • Wednesday, January 16 – 2L Ottawa & London Recruitment Prep Session

RESUME LABS Resume Labs are available to give you a chance to have a quick review of your resume or cover letter by an upper year student trained by the CDO. You can sign up for a 20-minute appointment on CSM under “Calendar”, sub-tab “Counseling Appt” by selecting one of the times labelled as “Resume/Cover Letter Labs”

CONVOCATION/GRADUATION INFORMATION

Completing this year? The application to graduate is now available in your solus account. A tutorial is available to assist you at this link: http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/solus/academics. The deadline to apply is April 30. If you would like to validate that you have (or will have) completed your requirements, please use the Degree Requirements Checklist that can be found in the Portal. If you still have questions, please visit or email Tricia Acton (actonp@queensu.ca) or Jo Crocco (croccog@queensu.ca) in the Student Services Office, room 200.

The convocation ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, June 6, 2019, at 1:00 pm. Please see this link for further convocation related information: http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/convocation

IMPORTANT: For students who will complete at the end of Fall term and would like to have their degree conferred early, please contact Tricia Acton (actonp@queensu.ca) to confirm your intention as soon as possible after grades post on January 12.

International Exchanges

Apply now: 2019 - 2020 Outgoing Exchange Application Deadline for January 11, 2019

The Moot Court Program – Experiential Learning Competitive mooting slips into high gear this term as sixteen teams race to meet writing deadlines and start fine tuning their oral arguments before travelling to represent Queen’s Law at various mooting competitions within Ontario, across Canada, south to the United States, and over to Europe. The first competition takes place January 23, 2019. Competition dates

Events

FLSQ LECTURES ARE OPEN TO ALL! A reminder that everyone is welcome to attend the Winter series of FLSQ lectures.

All 2L and 3L students, as well as Queen's students in other faculties, can to take the course for credit: full details and a lecture list are here: https://femlaw.queensu.ca/law-692693/law-693-winter-2019

And all are welcome to attend! Law students, Queen’s students, and community members are invited to FLSQ lectures and the International Women’s Day Conference:

Martha Jackman, Professor, French Common Law Program, University of Ottawa; Co-chair, National Association of Women and the Law; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Title: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Poverty, the Charter and the Legacy of Gosselin

Date: 1-2.30 pm, Friday, January 18, 2019 (lunch provided) Place: Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202

More information here: https://law.queensu.ca/events/flsq-visitor-martha-jackman Kim Brooks, Professor, Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law, and former Dean, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University; SSHRC grant, Experiences of 'Minority' Professionals Title: The Daily Work of Fitting in as a Marginalized Lawyer Date: 1-2.30 pm, Monday, February 11, 2019 (lunch provided) Place: Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202

More information here: https://law.queensu.ca/events/flsq-visitor-kim-brooks

Angela Lee, PhD program, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Teaches Food Law and Policy Title: Why 'Frankenfoods' Need Feminism

Date: 1-2.30 pm, Friday, March 1, 2019 (lunch provided) Place: Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202

More information here: https://law.queensu.ca/events/flsq-visitor-angela-lee

Feminist Legal Studies Queen's International Women's Day Conference -- Gender Equality and Relations of Care: Food, Sustainable Development, and Women's Empowerment Dates: March 8, 2019: noon until 8 pm; March 9, 2019: 8.30 am to 4 pm Place: Policy Studies, room 202 (ground floor of Robert Sutherland Hall, the building immediately to the west of Macdonald Hall (Law building))

More information here: https://law.queensu.ca/events/flsq-conference-2019 International Women’s Day 2019 Conference Keynote Lecture/March 8 (1-2.30 pm): Speaker: Dr. Angela Harris, Professor and Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, School of Law, University of California (Davis); author, “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory” (Stanford Law Review, 1990); “one of the most-cited law review articles of all time” (Michigan Law Review); Principal’s Development Fund Visiting Scholar, Queen’s University, 2018-2019 Topic: The Colour of Farming: Food and the Reproduction of Race Date: 1-2.30 pm, Friday, March 8, 2019 (lunch provided) Place: Policy Studies, room 202 (ground floor of Robert Sutherland Hall, next to Law building)

More information here: https://law.queensu.ca/events/flsq-conference-keynote-angela-harris

Invitation to Participate in Research (JD students only)

As a JD student who is currently attending a law school program in Ontario, you are being invited to participate in an online research study being conducted by Dr. Donald Saklofske and Samantha Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, who are part of the

Department of Psychology at Western University, London ON. Briefly, the study involves completing a set of online questionnaires about yourself and your experiences of social support as well as various psychological outcomes. It is anticipated that the entire task will take approximately 20-30 minutes. Following the completion of the survey, you will be offered the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of 25 gift cards valued at $20 or $50 (Tim Horton’s or Starbucks).

If you would like to participate in this study please click on the following link to access the letter of information and survey: https://uwopsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cAccLn9aWEGxoCp

If you have any further questions or would like more information regarding this research and/or your participation, please contact Samantha Chen (schen534@uwo.ca).

Law Students Wanted to Participate in CIAJ’s Provincial Roundtables on Jury Representation In the spring and fall of 2019, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) will organize provincial roundtables on the topic of systemic barriers to the representation of Indigenous peoples and racialized minorities on juries in Canada. The roundtables will take place in Manitoba (April 6, 2019), British Columbia (June 1, 2019), Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada respectively (specific dates to come). Law students studying or living in these provinces will be invited to work alongside members of the Roundtable Planning Committee.

How to participate Students are encouraged to send their CV and a cover letter explaining their willingness to participate in this project. Please submit your documents to ciaj@ciaj-icaj.ca by January 31, 2019.

Details: https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/featured-call-for-students/

Call for Nominations: Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching

This award is given annually to a Queen's teacher who, in the view of his/her students and colleagues, demonstrates superior abilities as a teacher and commitment to effective learning. The recipient receives a statue and $5,000. The deadline for nominations and supporting documentation is February 22, 2019. Information about the nomination process, eligibility and the nomination form are available online at: http://www.queensu.ca/alumni/awards/excellence-in-teaching