Stephanie Ben-Ishai | |
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Academic background | |
Education | LLB., Osgoode Hall Law School LLM., 2003, Harvard Law School |
Thesis | Gender, consumer bankruptcy, and marital debt in Canada: drawing on the American experience (2003) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Osgoode Hall Law School |
Stephanie F. Ben-Ishai is a Canadian lawyer. She is a Distinguished Research Professor and full professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Osgoode Hall Law School. She was a Fulbright fellow and has authored or co-authored numerous books on insolvency,contract law,and corporate and commercial law.
Upon graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School with her LL.B,Ben-Ishai served as a law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario to Chief Justice McMurtry,Justice Laskin and Justice Sharpe. [1] She also practiced law at Osler,Hoskin and Harcourt law firm [1] before earning her LLM at Harvard Law School with a Fulbright fellowship. [2]
In 2003,Ben-Ishai joined the faculty at her alma mater,Osgoode Hall Law School. [1] By 2006,she was promoted to Associate Professor [3] and received the Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Summer Research Fellowship. [4] She also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and Monash University Faculty of Law. [5] During the following academic year,she received the Osgoode Hall Leave Fellowship for 2008-09 [6] and later earned an INSOL International Scholar appointment. [7]
In 2010,she worked as a Visiting Professor at Monash University Law School and the University of Florida UF Levin College of Law. [5] On April 7,2015,Ben-Ishai received an Osgoode Hall Research Fellowships to complete a project on student loan debt. [8]
Ben-Ishai took a sabbatical during the 2018–19 academic year and served as the Thomas Feeney Visiting Professor of Business Law at the University of Ottawa. [9] On June 21,2019,Ben-Ishai was appointed a York University Distinguished Research Professor "in recognition of her exceptional scholarly achievements and substantial impact on the field of bankruptcy law." [10]
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