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Stephanie Ben-Ishai
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. Early life and educationUpon 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] CareerIn 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] References
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