Law & Economics Workshop: Janis Sarra

Law and Economics Workshop

WS 2009 - 2010 (5)

Janis Sarra

University of British Columbia Faculty of Law

The Current Financial Crisis

and the Incentive Effects of Derivatives

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

4:10 – 6:00 p.m.

Solarium (Room FA2) – Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Dr. Janis Sarra is Professor of Law, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Vancouver, Canada and Director of the National Centre for Business Law.  She holds the Honourable Lloyd Houlden Fellowship for 2007-2008. She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2003 to 2007 and was Senator of the University from 2003 to 2008. In 2004, she was awarded title of Distinguished University Scholar for her scholarship in corporate and securities law. Dr. Sarra teaches corporate finance, commercial insolvency law, corporate law, securities law, contract law and law and economics at the UBC Faculty of Law.  Dr. Sarra was one of two INSOL International Scholars for 2006-2007 and was awarded the UBC Alumni Research Award in 2007. She is a Fellow of the Corporate Directors' Duties Group, Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute, Monash University, Australia. She was a commercial and labour arbitrator prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 2000, and is a member of the Bar in Ontario. Dr. Sarra previously taught advanced corporate law at the Faculty of Law University of Toronto and taught at the Faculty of Business Ryerson University.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.