Stephanie Ben-Ishai

Upon 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]

In 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]