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Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law
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Event description
The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been enshrined in Canada’s Constitution since Confederation. This lecture traces changing conceptions of the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power through Canadian history, from the Great Depression to the mid-20th century. It highlights significant instances where Western provinces tested the limits of their jurisdiction against this federal power, and the role of Canada’s highest court in developing the modern field of bankruptcy and insolvency law.
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Speakers
Dr. Virginia Torrie is the Estey Chair in Business Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, and former Associate Dean (Academic) at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law. Dr. Torrie is the author of over 40 publications on banking, insolvency and fintech and is a member of the International Academy on Commercial and Consumer Law. Her published work includes Reinventing Bankruptcy Law (University of Toronto Press) and Debt and Federalism (UBC Press, co-authored). Her research has been cited by the Ontario Court of Appeal, la Cour d’appel du Québec and several lower courts.