Dr. Sileshi Bedasie Hirko is a former Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholar and a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ottawa. Since 2015, he has been a research fellow affiliated with Open African Innovation Research Network (Open AIR) at University of Ottawa. Dr. Sileshi is a former Assistant Professor at Haramaya University in Ethiopia.
From within the broad domains of international economic and business laws, Dr. Sileshi’s major areas of research interests focus on legal fields concerned with intellectual property, regulation of competition, international trade, international business, digital technologies and sustainable human development. Encompassing diverse areas of intellectual property, family laws, digital technologies, higher education and sustainable human development, his scholarly works have featured in several reputable national and international ournals. Published with Routledge and Palgrave/Springer respectively, Dr. Sileshi’s recent books titled “Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development” and “Copyright and Tertiary Education Regimes in Ethiopia” explore a wide range of issues central to copyright, higher education and human development from both international and national perspectives.
Inbar Peled is an academic and human rights lawyer currently completing her PhD project on discriminatory policing at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she has been a Vanier scholar. Ms. Peled previously served as the founding director of the Multiculturalism and Diversity Clinic at the Hebrew University, an advocacy body working to combat racialized policing and discrimination more broadly. She writes and teaches about identity, discrimination, criminal law, and professional ethics from a comparative perspective.
Kevin Fine has been the Director of the Derivatives Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission since 2011. As part of his duties at the OSC he also participates in a variety of national and international committees currently working on introduction and oversight of regulation of over the counter derivatives markets. He is the long-time co-chair of the CSA Derivatives Committee. Kevin is also the current chair of the IOSCO Standing Committee on Derivatives, past chair of the international Over the Counter Derivatives Regulators Forum (the “ODRF”), one of the past co-chairs of the IOSCO Task Force on OTC Derivatives and has led several international workstreams relating to OTC derivatives regulation.
Mr. Fine was previously Associate General Counsel and Managing Director, Retail Investor Solutions Group and Securitization, for Bank of Montreal Financial Group of Companies (“BMOFG”) and had almost 20 years experience working in OTC derivatives matters for BMOFG.
Amanda’s general litigation practice focuses on complex corporate and commercial disputes, with a particular emphasis on civil fraud, employment litigation and securities litigation disputes and investigations. Amanda has experience managing all aspects of investigative and enforcement actions, matters pertaining to securities regulatory and enforcement matters, internal investigations (including multi-jurisdictional investigations involving allegations of fraud and corruption), shareholder disputes and claims relating to post-employment obligations. Additionally, Amanda also has extensive experience in obtaining and defending Norwich orders, Mareva injunctions, Anton Pillar orders, orders in regard to fraudulent conveyances, restitution orders and disclosure orders and in the enforcement of civil judgments.
Amanda has motion, application, trial and appeal experience before all courts in Ontario. In addition, she regularly appears before a number of administrative and regulatory boards and tribunals, including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
Amanda currently sits on the executive of the Canadian chapter of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.
While attending the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, Amanda competed in the Arnup Cup Trial Advocacy Competition as a member of the winning team. Amanda also competed in the Pace International Criminal Law Moot Competition in New York, where she was recognized as the top oralist in her round of the competition; and in the Sopinka Cup advocacy competition.
Charles is a Partner with Glaholt Bowles LLP and specializes in international and domestic arbitration. His work focuses on large scale construction and infrastructure projects including refineries, pipelines, power generation, rail, mining and tunneling.
Jonathon Kappy is a partner at Hull & Hull, having joined the firm in 2012.
Jonathon spent the first ten years of his litigation career practicing across a broad range of commercial and civil litigation disciplines, with a focus on corporate disputes, including director and shareholder remedies, breaches of fiduciary duty, oppression, contractual disputes and real estate litigation.
In the course of his practice, Jonathon has appeared at all levels of court.
Jonathon received an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and a B.Comm from McGill University. Jonathon was called to the bar in 2003 and has completed the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Ankita is a litigation associate at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP where she carries on a general commercial litigation practice which includes appellate litigation, Indigenous and constitutional litigation, securities litigation, class actions, and other general civil litigation. She has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, British Columbia Court of Appeal, British Columbia Supreme Court, Ontario Divisional Court, and Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Ankita completed her J.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she graduated in the top 2% of her class with several academic honours, and her LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where she was awarded multiple Dean’s Scholar Prizes. Prior to joining Osler, Ankita served as a law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the Honourable Sarah E. Pepall, David M. Brown and Benjamin Zarnett, and the Supreme Court of Canada for the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada.
Jill is a partner at Greenspan Humphrey Weinstein LLP in Toronto. She has an advocacy practice dedicated to criminal trials and appeals, with a particular focus on sexual offences.
Jill received her LLB. from the University of Windsor and LLM. from the University of Alberta. In 2003-2004, she served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice A. Lutz (then Supernumerary Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta and Deputy Judge to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories). The clerkship was devoted to a lengthy civil trial arising out of the murder of nine replacement workers at the Giant Mine in Yellowknife during a labour dispute in 1992. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2006.
In addition to her commitment to practice, Jill was a devoted sessional lecturer at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law for a decade. She taught criminal law courses, including an advanced seminar on criminal motions that is geared to students pursuing criminal law careers. She is returning to the classroom in 2023 to teach The Law of Homicide with the Honourable David Watt, K.C.
Jill is a co-author of Modern Criminal Evidence (Emond, 2022) and recently completed a seven-year term as co-editor of the publication of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, For the Defence. She is a member of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, Ontario Bar Association, and the Advocates’ Society.
Amit Singh is a legal theorist and litigator. Amit practiced international arbitration and commercial litigation in New York and London – first at Shearman & Sterling LLP, and then at litigation boutique Holwell, Shuster & Goldberg LLP. Amit is called to the bar of New York.
Amit’s research applies philosophical insights to issues of legal doctrine, with a particular focus on property law and Aboriginal and Indigenous Law. His work appears in several edited volumes and law reviews, including the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, McGill Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and Supreme Court Law Review.
Amit is a JD graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal of Law & Equality and the Indigenous Law Journal and launched the Yale-Toronto Private Law Theory Discussion Group. Upon graduating, he received the Dean’s Cecil A. Wright Key and Justice Michael J. Moldaver Prize, amongst other awards. Previously, Amit completed a BA and MA in Philosophy at the University of Toronto as a Heaslip Scholar and SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholar.
Amit received the Canadian Bar Association’s Viscount Bennett Fellowship, the Justice John C. Major Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship for his graduate studies at Yale Law School.
Doreen Lok Yin So (she/her) is a partner at Hull & Hull LLP, a boutique estates, trusts, and capacity litigation firm in Toronto, Ontario. She has extensive trial and appellate experience and she is a seasoned advisor in complex estate administrations. Doreen is also a board member of the Toronto Lawyers Association. Doreen earned her J.D./L.L.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has also obtained B.A. from University of British Columbia, with a double major in English Literature and Family Studies. Doreen is interested in how human beings interact with the law, and the legal rights and obligations that are either given or imposed upon them. Doreen approaches the law from a principled and practical perspective, and as an ever evolving construct and system.