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Thesis:  A Framework for Informal Creativity.

Supervisor: Ariel Katz.

Awards: U of T Faculty of Law Doctoral Scholarship (2014); Centre for International Governance Innovation Doctoral Scholarship (2014); U of T Faculty of Law Fellowship (2014); Vanier Graduate Scholarship (2016; Nathan Strauss QC Graduate Fellowship in International Law and Intellectual Property (2016); U of T Faculty of Arts & Science Oxford Mobility Fund (2016); Government of Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2019).

Thesis: The Tortious Liability of States for Combatant Activities.

Supervisor: Arthur Ripstein.

Thesis: Whose Justice? A Comparative Approach to Canadian Civil Lay Justice.

Supervisors: Professors David Dyzenhaus and Michael Trebilcock.

Thesis: The New Immunity: Multinational Corporations, Tort Law, and Human Rights in the Third World

Graduate Supervisor: Mohammed Fadel.

The Limits of Legality: The Rule of Law Principles Governing the Common Law Public Policy Exception in Private International Law (Thesis)

Graduate supervisors: Karen Knop, Arthur Ripstein.

From Treaty Norms to Practices: A State Accountability Analysis of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Thesis)

Faculty supervisor: Jutta Brunnée

Awards: Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario (2020); Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (2016); Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2016); Intl. Law Research Scholarship, Centre for Intl. Governance Innovation (2015); Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in International Law and Intellectual Property (2014)

International Governance in the World Trade Organization: Judicial Boundaries and Political Capitulation (Thesis)

Supervisor: University Professor Emeritus Michael J. Trebilcock

Government Appointments: On the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) indicative list of dispute settlement panellists, the approved list of Israeli arbitrators under the Israel-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement and Chapter 10 of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. Member of Israel’s Advisory Committee on Trade Remedies

Julie McAlpine-Jeffries, associate general counsel for the University of Toronto, is an “accidental” lawyer who became so fascinated by the law that she pursued her LLM at the U of T Faculty of Law simply to enjoy learning more about a variety of aspects of the law.

By Elaine Smith

When Jean Teillet graduated from the U of T Faculty of Law in 1994 there were few role models working in her fields of interest, reproductive law and Indigenous rights, so she forged her own path and became one of the role models others followed.

“At the time, reproductive rights and Indigenous rights were nascent fields, so you had to get out and practice and learn from doing,” says Teillet from her home in British Columbia. “U of T gave me a good grounding in law and I used that as a springboard.”

On September 22, 2022, the Faculty of Law celebrated Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella (BA 1967 UC, LLB 1970, Hon LLD 1990) and her trailblazing legal career. 

Watch the discussion moderated by Professor Stephen Toope, President & CEO of CIFAR and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, with international court justices: