Kim Brooks

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Kim Brooks
EducationJD
LLM
PhD
Alma mater University of Toronto
University of British Columbia
Osgoode Hall Law School
University of Western Australia
OccupationProfessor
Employer Dalhousie University
TitlePresident

Kim Brooks is a university professor and administrator who currently serves as the President and vice-chancellor of Dalhousie University. She was previously the university's acting Provost and Vice-President Academic, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Management at the university. Prior to this she served as the Dean of the university's Schulich School of Law and as the endowed H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law.

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Education

Kim Brooks received her BA from the University of Toronto, an LLB the University of British Columbia, LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In between her law degree and LLM, she worked as a tax lawyer with the firm Stikeman Elliott. [1] Later in her career, she earned a PhD from the University of Western Australia. [2]

Academic career

Kim Brooks began her career as a law professor at Queen's University and the University of British Columbia. [1] She then became a professor of law at McGill University, where she was a recipient of the 3M Teaching Fellowship. [3] At McGill she was appointed to the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Law of Taxation. [4] Her research focus is on tax law, [5] and she has also been an advocate for university community inclusiveness. [6] Brooks served as the Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, [7] before becoming Dean of the Dalhousie University's Faculty of Management. [8] She is also a past-President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. [1]

On January 1, 2023 Brooks became the acting Provost and Vice-President Academic of Dalhousie University, and on August 14, 2023, she became the President of Dalhousie University. [9] She is the first woman and openly-queer person to hold the position at Dalhousie. [10] Brooks has also served as co-chair of the National Association of Women and the Law, the Chair of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, and the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law . [11]

Government work

In 2016 Brooks was brought in by the Revenue Minister of the Government of Canada to act as an independent reviewer of accused tax malfeasance of KPMG advisors and the handling of the file by the Canada Revenue Agency. Following her review, she was appointed as the vice chair of the agency's offshore advisory committee. [12]

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  2. ↑ "Kim Brooks appointed as Dalhousie's 13th president and vice‑chancellor". Dalhousie News. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  3. ↑ "Kim Brooks recognized with 3M Teaching Fellowship". March 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ Michael Lang (2010). Tax Treaties: Building Bridges between Law and Economics. p. 651.
  5. ↑ Blair Sanderson (April 24, 2017). "Why the Canada Revenue Agency is using this simple tactic to get you to pay your taxes". CBC News.
  6. ↑ Brett Bundale (February 5, 2019). "Dalhousie law profs raise concerns over interim president's blackface comments". The Canadian Press.
  7. ↑ Greg Kelly and Alison Cook (June 14, 2014). "Influential law prof. Roderick Macdonald dies of throat cancer". CBC News.
  8. ↑ Alison DeLory (July 5, 2021). "New pan‑Atlantic Canadian initiative creates more opportunities for Black and Indigenous business students".
  9. ↑ "Dalhousie appoints Kim Brooks as first female president". CBC. July 19, 2023.
  10. ↑ EVELYN C. WHITE (July 21, 2023). "After a revolving door of men in the position, Kim Brooks is appointed as the first woman and openly queer president of Dalhousie University". Halifax Examiner.
  11. ↑ "Author profile: Kim Brooks". Irwin Law.
  12. ↑ Harvey Cashore; Nicole Percy; Kimberly Ivany; Patrick Butler (May 18, 2017). "CRA records missing in KPMG tax dodge affair". CBC News.
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