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Nicholas Bala has been a Professor of Law at Queen's University since 1980. Nick is a leading international authority on legal issues related to families and children, including the role of children in the courts, high conflict separations and parental alienation, domestic violence and juvenile justice. Much of his research is interdisciplinary and collaborative. His work is frequently cited by judges, including in the Supreme Court of Canada, and all levels of court in Ontario. His contributions to family law research and professional education were recognized when he was awarded Law Society Medal in 2008, and in 2013 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He was also the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Family Law in 2008.
Diana Carr is a Queen's grad and currently a sole practitioner. She has practiced exclusively in family law for 25 years. A long-time member of the Planning Committee of this program, she is also a member of the Community Liaison and Resource Committee and a panel member of the Office of the Children's Lawyer for over 20 years. She is also a former member of the Bench and Bar Committee, previously taught at the Bar Admission course and regularly makes presentations about family law at CLE events. One of her best volunteer jobs was as a member of the Marty/Royce Scholarship Committee at Queen's University, which provided, annually, the opportunity to review amazing applications from gifted, female students with post-graduate plans for a variety of studies from creative dance to cancer research.
Sarah Morales received her J.D. from the University of Victoria in 2004. She received her LL.M. from the University of Arizona in 2006, where she was the Department of Justice Congressional Fellow. In 2005-2006, she clerked for the Pasqua Yaqui Tribal Appellate Court and the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in 2015, where she was awarded the Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council. She was also the Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois in the School of American Indian Studies. Professor Morales joined the Faculty of Law in 2011, where she teaches Tort, Aboriginal Legal Issues and International Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples. Professor Morales’ research interests are generally in the area of Aboriginal and human rights law. Specifically, she is committed to the recognition and reconciliation of Indigenous legal traditions with the common law and civil law traditions in Canada. Her dissertation, entitled “Snuw’uyulh: Fostering an Understandingo of the Hul’qumi’num Legal Tradition”, examines the Coast Salish legal tradition and attempts to demonstrate the significance of this legal tradition within the Canadian legal system. In addition to these academic interests, Sarah has been actively involved with Indigenous nations and NGOs across Canada through her work in nation building, inherent rights recognition and international human rights law. Her community based research has resulted in the creation of policies and procedures that are reflective of the traditional laws of the communities who utilize them.
Alain Roussy completed his undergraduate studies (B.Sc., 1998) and legal studies (LL.B., 2002, French common law program) at the University of Ottawa. He completed his articles as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada with the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie and was then called to the bar as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2003. He subsequently joined Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto as a lawyer practising business law. In 2005, he joined Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto where he practised in litigation and labour law.
In 2008, he became in-house legal counsel at the University of Ottawa. As such, he was called upon to manage a wide range of legal files for the University, including litigation, labour and employment, academic affairs and campus security. He completed his master (LL.M.) in 2012 and joined the Faculty of Law as a professor in January 2013.
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