Alumni Spotlight
Each year the Canadian Tax Foundation (CTF) receives submissions for its four regional best student paper awards. We’re pleased to announce that David Cade, LL.M. Taxation (2021) received the CTF-Fasken Martineau DuMoulin Award for the best Ontario paper of 2020-21, for his paper, Reimagining the Offshore Investment Fund Property Rule:… Click to Continue Reading.
In 2015, Dian Thompson wasn’t just busy—like many young law students, she was pretty much completely out of bandwidth. In the middle of a full courseload as a law student at Kingston, Jamaica’s Norman Manley Law School, the 31-year-old was simultaneously juggling a legal internship, work at a community legal-aid… Click to Continue Reading.
Meet Yanique Russell: Osgoode’s application agent for Latin America and the Caribbean, and graduate of not one – but two – Professional LLM programs. Yanique Russell is an internationally qualified lawyer from Jamaica who holds a UK Law degree. In satisfying her NCA requirements, she completed two LLM programs with… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of speaking with Lara Merjane, Corporate Lawyer at The Ross Firm Professional Corporation, about her journey as an internationally trained lawyer coming to Canada. Her path to completing the Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law at Osgoode began with a serendipitous celebratory trip to Cancun. From… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of speaking with Harinder Gahir, a graduate of the Professional LLM in General Law at Osgoode. Harinder took us through his rich career thus far, and told us how the LLM helped achieve some of his goals. Tell us a bit about yourself I have been… Click to Continue Reading.
Osgoode’s alumni spotlight series highlights Amanda Wickett. Amanda shares her journey from public to private practice, balancing her work, studies and family life, and how she accomplished her goals through remote learning. Today, Amanda is a partner at McDougall Gauley LLP, as well as a graduate of the LLM in… Click to Continue Reading.
As part of the alumni spotlight series, we’re highlighting an alumnus of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in General Law – Matthew Yap. Matthew is the Director of Legal Registries at the Government of Northwest Territories, as well as the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) Chair for the Northwest Territories. Matthew’s professional journey… Click to Continue Reading.
We spoke with Shwetha Pai, an alumna of Osgoode’s Full-Time Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to learn about her journey as an internationally trained lawyer. She shares her insights, her challenges, and her accomplishments. Shwetha always wanted to come to Canada, and decided that Osgoode was at the core of that… Click to Continue Reading.
Tania Narciso is a student in the inaugural cohort of the LLM in Privacy and Cybersecurity Law. Here we chat with her about her experience in the program thus far. What lead you to apply to the program? What were you hoping to gain from an LLM? With the digital… Click to Continue Reading.
I am glad I chose the Part-time LLM in Business Law after having completed my LLB from England and my first LLM in Canadian Common Law from Osgoode. Here are some facets of the program that I appreciated and were important to my experience. On the faculty The faculty was… Click to Continue Reading.
We sat down with Angela I. Salvatore, an alumna of Osgoode’s Part-Time Professional LLM in Taxation Law, to find out more about her, why she undertook the LLM, what she gained from it, and what others should know. We kicked off with a discussion of who Angela is (a constant learner… Click to Continue Reading.