News

Prof. Anna Su and Petra Molnar, Research Associate at the International Human Rights Program, have published an article in The Conversation detailing their findings from a trip to the Philippines to investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in that country ("The brutal personal costs of the Philippines’ human rights abuses," August 2, 2018).

Eight years ago, when he began his academic career at Queen's Faculty of Law, Chris Essert was assigned to teach a course on property law.  He discovered that the connection between property rights and equality under the law raised so many interesting questions that it was an area he should address in his research, too. 

The Faculty of Law is saddened to announce the passing of Visiting Professor G. Blaine Baker. Professor Baker was an accomplished scholar in the area of Canadian legal history, as well as commercial and administrative law.  He was the recipient of publishing awards from the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, the American Society for Legal History and the Canadian Historical Association. 

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Lisa Austin argues that "data is not a natural resource but a new informational dimension to individual and community life" ("We must not treat data like a natural resource," July 9, 2018).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

We must not treat data like a natural resource

By Lisa Austin

July 9, 2018