About the Law Library
About William R. Lederman
The law library at Queen's University is named after one of Canada's pre-eminent legal scholars, William R. Lederman (1916-1992). Lederman was a noted constitutional scholar and the first dean of Queen's Faculty of law. He was born in Regina and educated at the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1940) and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and a Vinerian Scholar. He made a name for himself as one of Canada's leading constitutional lawyers while teaching at Dalhousie University (1949-1958) and was invited to be the first Dean of Queen's new Faculty of Law in 1958. He served in the post until 1968 and continued to teach in the faculty until the 1980s. He was constitutional adviser to then-Ontario Premier John Robarts between 1965 and 1971 and was a mentor to many other constitutional scholars in Canada.
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The library serves law students, faculty, and staff of the law school, in addition to other Queen's personnel and students, members of the bar from the Kingston region, and the general public.
Telephone:
(613) 533-2842 or (613) 533-6346 (circulation desk)
Address:
Macdonald Hall
128 Union Street
Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
fax (613) 533-2594
Administration
Amy Kaufman
Head, Law Library
email: kaufman@queensu.ca | phone 613 533-2843
Chris Lesarge
Assistant to the Head, Law Library
email: lesargec@queensu.ca | phone: 613 533 3179
Library Services
Nancy McCormack
Librarian and Associate Professor of Law
email: nm4@queensu.ca | phone 613 533-2465
Leslie Taylor
Reference/Technical Services Librarian
email: leslie.taylor@queensu.ca | phone 613 533-2918
Access/Technical Services
Anne Newman
Circulation Coordinator & Technical Services Assistant
email: newmana@queensu.ca | phone: 613 533-2845
Gary Wilson
Technical Services/Access Assistant
email: wilsong@queensu.ca | phone: 613 533 6000, ext.78311
Maggie Ohtake
Access/Technical Services Technician
email: ohtakem@queensu.ca | phone: 613-533-6000, ext. 78302
Debbie Clark
Circulation Clerk
e-mail: clarkd@queensu.ca | phone 613-533-6000, ext. 74547
Last Updated: 19 January 2012