People

Centre Staff

Bethany Hastie, Associate Professor and Director

Bethany Hastie joined Queen’s Law as an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace in 2026. Her research spans a broad array of labour and employment law topics, including technological change, freedom of association, and employment discrimination, and is animated by concerns about the growing divergence between the legal regulation of work and the day-to-day realities, needs and interests of workers. Prior to joining Queen’s Law, Professor Hastie was an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She earned her JD at UBC, and LLM and DCL at McGill University.  Full Bio

Natalie Moniz-Henne, Centre Assistant

Natalie Moniz-Henne joined the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace in September 2010. Natalie has over 20 years experience in the Event Planning and Administrative fields and is from Montreal, where she studied Administrative and Travel Sales. Prior to moving to Kingston and joining Queen's Law, Natalie worked as an event planner in Toronto at Oxford Properties; one of the biggest property management companies in Canada. Natalie is also fluent in French and in Portuguese.

Research Affiliates

Kevin Banks, Associate Dean (Faculty and Academic Policy), Associate Professor, Faculty of Law

Kevin Banks is Associate Professor of Law at Queen’s. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, and a co-ordinating editor of Labour and Employment Law, Cases, Materials and Commentary. His research publications address relationships between economic globalization, technological change and labour and employment law;; employee freedom of association at common law; the role, governance and potential influence of international and transnational labour labour law; efficiency and delay in Canadian labour arbitration; the influence of originating political struggles on definitions of indirect discrimination in North America and the European Union; the extent and causes of gaps in the workplace accommodation of persons with disability; the accessibility and effectiveness of employment standards compliance and enforcement, and the role of good faith in the contract of employment. Full Bio

Pierre Chaigneau, Associate Professor & Commerce '77 Fellow of Finance, Smith School of Business

Pierre Chaigneau is an Associate Professor & Commerce '77 Fellow of Finance at Smith School of Business at Queen's University. He obtained a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics, a MSc in Economics at Ecole Normale Superieure, and a MSc in Management (grande Ecole program) from HEC Paris, and was previously Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Montreal. Full Bio

Richard Chaykowski, Professor, Cross-appointed with the Faculty of Law, Employment Relations Studies

Richard Chaykowski is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science where he teaches in the Employment Relations programs. He is cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law and a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for the Study of Law in the Contemporary Workplace. He was the Director of the graduate MIR Program (Master of Industrial Relations and Professional Master of Industrial Relations programs), and undergraduate Employment Relations program, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, from 2015 through mid-2022. Full Bio

Samuel Dahan, Associate Professor; Director, Conflict Analytics Lab; Queen's National Scholar, Labour & Employment Law, Faculty of Law

Prof. Samuel Dahan is the Founder of OpenJustice, an open-source platform and community that provides no-code development tools, and hosting infrastructure for legal AI applications, enabling users to embed legal reasoning into language models. He is also the Head of Deel Lab, Deel’s research division dedicated to global employment policy and HR technology. He has spearheaded the development of a dozen AI projects, including the Deel AI Classifier, MyOpenCourt, and OpenJustice. Full Bio

Claire Davies, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

My interest in biomedical engineering evolved while volunteering at Bloorview Children’s Hospital (now Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital). I realized that the technology available to these children did not allow them the same freedom as other children. I have since dedicated my research career to improving the lives of people with disabilities. My research is diverse covering three main areas: biomaterials, motion analysis and assistive technology. Full Bio

Bhargav Gopal, Assistant Professor, Smith School of Business

I am an economist at Smith School of Business, Queen's University, doing research at the intersection of labor, finance, and law and economics. I received a PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2023. Prior to Columbia, I received a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2015 and was a Research Fellow at Stanford Law School from 2015 to 2017. Full Bio

Rebecca Hall, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development Studies

Resource extraction; feminist political economy; settler colonialism; Indigenous resurgence; social reproduction; northern development; gender-based violence; labour.

As a feminist political economist concerned with social justice, my research examines how land and resources are accessed and organized, and how people work, care and reproduce upon these lands. My work maps the ways in which global capital draws upon gendered, racialized, and colonial structures in processes of dispossession and exploitation. At the same time, I am interested in highlighting local spaces of feminist, anti-racist and decolonizing resistance to the pressures of global capital. Full Bio

Phil Henderson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Development Studies

Phil Henderson is a settler scholar, originally from the territories of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. His current research project investigates the interrelations between organized labour and Indigenous land/water defence movements in the contemporary Canadian context. In this work Phil is particularly interested in understanding the conditions of work and workplace organizing that contribute to either solidarity or conflict between these movements. Phil’s work has been featured in many venues including, most recently, New Political Science and the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) journal. He is currently editing a book on labour-Indigenous relations, and has two manuscripts nearing completion on Canadian colonialism.

Robert Hickey, Director and Associate Professor, Employment Relations Studies

Robert Hickey joined the School of Policy Studies in January 2006 as a faculty member in the Master’s of Industrial Relations program. He teaches one of the core MIR courses, unions and collective bargaining, as well as a course on negotiations and dispute resolution. He is frequently asked to participate in continuing education programs for union officers and staff. Full Bio

Steven Lehrer, Professor, Queen's Economics Department

My research interests are in empirical microeconomics and are quite broad. I enjoy getting my hands dirty by analyzing new datasets, exploring how recent advances in several scientific fields can enrich economic models of human development, using experiments to address issues that are intractable with available field data, and above all, pursuing economic issues that are important in the current economy. My methodological interests currently center on new tools that incorporate heterogeneneity in policy evaluation and exploring how applied econometric tools can be used in conjunction with machine learning algorithms in economic applications. Full Bio

Sitian Liu, Assistant Professor, Queen's Economics Department

I am an Assistant Professor at Queen's University. My research is in the fields of labor economics and urban economics. I received my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2019 and BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Full Bio

Eddy Ng, Professor & Smith Professor of Equity and Inclusion, Smith School of Business

Eddy Ng is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and the Smith Professor in Equity & Inclusion in Business at Queen’s University. He was previously on faculty at Bucknell University, where he held the James & Elizabeth Freeman Chair in Management and served as a DEI Faculty Fellow, and at Dalhousie University, where held the F.C. Manning Chair in Economics & Business. Full Bio

Dan Samosh, Assistant Professor, Employment Relations Studies

Dan Samosh joined the Employment Relations Programs unit at Queen’s University in July 2022. He is broadly interested in researching the career success and workplace inclusion of individuals with stigmatized social identities. At present, his research is focused on the work experiences of persons with disabilities, including three foci: 1) leadership emergence of persons with disabilities, 2) disability stigma and social identity, and 3) workplace inclusion of persons with disabilities. Full Bio

Bradley Weinberg, Associate Professor, Employment Relations Studies

Dr. Weinberg’s current research focuses on the longitudinal study of collective bargaining relationships during the representation phase of the unionization process.  In particular, he analyzes the factors that contribute to the preservation or dissolution of such relationships.  His emphasis on studying the representation phase, meaning beyond the settlement of the first collective agreement, addresses the dearth of empirical quantitative analysis of the experience and evolution of bargaining relationships throughout the later stages of their lifecycle. Full Bio