Right: Jinyan Li

recognizes and honours Chinese Canadians who have made significant contributions to the community through outstanding achievement in their field. The other recipients for 2010 are Philip Lee, Manitoba's 24th lieutenant governor; Mingguang Lu, president of Wing On New Group Canada Inc.; Dr. Neville Poy, a retired Toronto surgeon and researcher; businessman Andrew W. Wong; and Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing Corporation.

This is the latest of several awards Li has received. Last year, the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation gave her an Award of Merit and she also received the CPAC Professional Achievement Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada.

Li served as interim dean of Osgoode Hall Law School from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. She is currently chair of Osgoode Faculty Council and of the Faculty Recruitment Committee.

In 2004, she won an Osgoode Teaching Award and, in 2000, she received the Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award from the Canadian Tax Foundation. Li, who became a full professor in 2006, has received numerous research grants, including two from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research interests include taxation law and policy, social security law, pension law and Chinese law.

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Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri has received a Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship for 2010-2011.

The prestigious award, periodically presented by 91��ɫ to recognized scholars at the University to complete ongoing outstanding and innovative research, will allow her to devote the coming year to completing Financial Markets in Crisis: ABCP, the Made in Canada Solution and the Future of Canadian Capital Markets.

Right: Poonam Puri

"Professor Puri is greatly admired for her teaching and scholarship as well as the interesting reform and advisory work she has done for securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations, governments and bilateral agencies," said Osgoode Interim Dean Jinyan Li. "This fellowship recognizes her knowledge and expertise and will provide her with the time to complete her latest book."

Puri is among Canada’s most respected researchers on corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime. Appointed to 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997, she has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles and reports. Her rigorous research is firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making, rendering her expertise widely requested by Canadian and international governments and regulators, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission, the Senate of Canada, the Wise Persons’ Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group.

“Professor Puri’s timely proposal addresses the recent global financial upheaval and the asset-backed commercial paper crisis. It promises to provide insight about both global and Canadian banking practices,” said David Dewitt, 91��ɫ's associate vice-president research (social sciences & humanities), and chair of the Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship selection committee. “Her book will make a valuable contribution to existing literature on Canadian financial markets. The selection committee was impressed by her proposal’s interdisciplinarity, innovative thinking, clarity and logic.”

The fellowship, named in honour of the late Walter L. Gordon, former chancellor of 91��ɫ, provides researchers with the opportunity to complete works or projects that require a significant amount of time by relieving them of teaching and other University responsibilities.

"The selection committee was also impressed by the quality of each of the applicants and the significant research ideas brought forward," said Dewitt. “Every one of them deserved funding. The applicant pool’s strength speaks to 91��ɫ’s expanding research culture and the important recognition the fellowship provides to support that leading-edge research."

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

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A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, a new book co-authored by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood, shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance.

The book will launch Wednesday, April 7, from 12:30 to 2pm in the Private Dining Room of the Executive Learning Centre in the Seymour Schulich Building, Keele campus.

Co-author and political economy Professor Stephen Clarkson of the University of Toronto, a senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, will join Wood, a core faculty member of the  (IRIS), in introducing .

Left: Stepan Wood

The book advocates for a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle to pursue human security, ecological integrity and social emancipation, and to create spaces for alternative forms of law and governance.

As citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces, but they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security and the environment, often for the worse. A Perilous Imbalance argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected. It situates Canada’s experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends, the emergence of a global supraconsitution, the transformation of the nation-state and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state.

Jinyan Li, interim dean of 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School; Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation; and 91��ɫ Professor Dawn Bazely, director of IRIS; will give the opening remarks, followed by commentary by Osgoode Professor Craig Scott.

Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Joanne Rappaport, Osgoode research coordinator, at jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca.

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91��ɫ has appointed Professor Lorne Sossin as dean of its Osgoode Hall Law School.

Sossin, who most recently taught at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, will begin a five-year term on July 1.

Right: Lorne Sossin

Prior to joining the University of Toronto, where he served as associate dean  in the Faculty of Law from 2004 to 2007, Sossin was a faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School and an associate-in-law at Columbia Law School in New 91��ɫ City. He is also a former litigation lawyer with Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais) and a former law clerk to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

“I am so pleased that Professor Sossin has accepted our offer to become the next dean of Osgoode and I’m very much looking forward to working with him,” said President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. “He brings many strengths that will help build 91��ɫ’s reputation and ensure that our students receive the best legal education in Canada.”

Sossin holds doctorates in law from Columbia University and in political science from the University of Toronto. His teaching interests span administrative law, public administration, professional regulation, civil litigation, ethics and professionalism and legal process. He received a 2008-2009 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Award for Teaching Excellence.

"I'm thrilled to be coming home to Osgoode,” Sossin said. “I look forward to working with faculty, staff, students and alumni to further enhance Osgoode's leadership and innovation in legal education."

Shoukri also acknowledged the dedication of Osgoode’s interim dean, Jinyan Li.

“I’d like to thank Professor Li for her steady hand and leadership during this process,” Shoukri said.

Sossin will succeed former Osgoode Dean Patrick Monahan, who has taken on a new role as 91��ɫ's vice-president academic & provost.

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