Prof. Anne W. La Forest Reappointed to Securities Commission

Professor Anne Warner La Forest has been reappointed for a four year term with the New Brunswick Securities Commission. Professor La Forest will be the lead member on the Commission. Commission members set policy and recommend changes to the Securities Act and the General Regulation. They are empowered to hear matters that affect the public interest in New Brunswick’s capital markets. In addition, Members act as the Commission’s Board of Directors.

For more information about the NB Securities Commission, please visit nbsc-cvmnb.ca

Professor La Forest first joined UNB Law as Dean in 1996 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, 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 has recently completed Anger & Honsberger's Real Property Law, a two-volume text. She 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 and a member of the Council of the SSHRC and Chair of the Fellowships Committee. She is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute.

Posted September 26, 2008 at 1:39 PM |