Anne Warner La Forest

LLB (UNB) 1984, LLM (Cantab) 1985. After working in private practice with the firm of Fraser & Beatty in Toronto for several years, Anne La Forest joined the Faculty of Law at Dalhousie University in 1991.

In 1996, she was appointed as Dean of the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law and remained Dean until 2004. During the 2001-2002 academic year she was a Visiting Fellow in the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and during the 2004-2005 academic year, she was the Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Department of Justice in Ottawa.

Professor La Forest teaches in the areas of property law, international law and international human rights law, comparative law, commercial law, conflict of laws, and feminist jurisprudence. In 1995, she received the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association and Law Students' Society Teaching Award.

She has acted as a graduate supervisor primarily in the areas of human rights, health law, and international law. She has written in many different areas including property, extradition law, international law, and labour and employment law. She is the author of La Forest's Extradition to and From Canada, 3d, 1991, and  Anger & Honsberger's Real Property Law, a two-volume text.

Professor La Forest is a member of the bars of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario and has extensive experience as an arbitrator and has acted as a consultant on matters relating to human rights, employment, property and extradition law.

She has been a member of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Tribunal,  a member of the Council of the SSHRC and Chair of its Fellowships Committee, the Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute and the Patented Medicines Pricing Review Board.

She was appointed a member of the New Brunswick Securities Commission in 2004 and was the Lead Member until 2013.  She is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society.