Monash Staff in Europe

Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai

Professor Ben-Ishai teaches contracts, bankruptcy, and a seminar in corporate governance.  Her current research interests include all aspects of business and personal bankruptcy, corporate governance and commercial law.  Professor Ben-Ishai has published recent articles and book chapters on these areas and has presented on these topics at numerous Canadian and international conferences, including recent presentations in Peru, Australia, India and South Africa.  Professor Ben-Ishai’s recent articles have appeared in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Banking and Finance Law Review, the Queen’s Law Journal, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Annual Insolvency Review, the International Insolvency Review, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

Professor Ben-Ishai’s honors and service activities include being the Acting Editor-in-Chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review, Secretary of the Canadian Law and Economics Association, Member of the Personal Property Security Law Sub-Committee, Canadian Bar Association of Ontario, Academic Reporter for the Insolvency Institute of Canada Income Tax Task Force and Academic Director of the Osgoode PDP Masters in Banking and Finance Law.  She is a past winner of the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence and Fulbright and SSHRC fellowships. 

Before entering academics, Professor Ben-Ishai practiced with the Insolvency and Restructuring Group at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt. She also clerked for three judges at the Court of Appeal for Ontario: first, Chief Justice McMurtry and Justice Sharpe, and later, Justice Laskin.