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3Rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE APRIL 25-26, 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Mario Bouchard Mario Bouchard est membre du Barreau du Québec et détient une maîtrise en droit de l’Université Laval. De 1990 à 2013, il a été avocat général auprès de la Commission du droit d’auteur, après avoir été légiste auprès de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, chargé de cours à la faculté de droit de l’Université de Birmingham (R.-U.), coordonnateur de la section de droit administratif de la Commission de réforme du droit du Canada, courtier en vins, avocat au ministère fédéral de la Justice et directeur des services juridiques de la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié. Il a comparu devant la Cour d’appel fédérale et la Cour suprême du Canada. Il est l’auteur d’articles traitant de droit d’au- teur, de droit administratif et de recours collectif. Il siège sur le comité consultatif du programme de propriété intellec- tuelle et technologie à la Osgoode Hall Law School. A member of the Quebec bar, Mario Bouchard holds a Master’s degree from l’Université Laval. He acted as General Counsel to the Copyright Board from 1990 to 2013. He was legislative counsel to the Quebec National Assembly, teaching associate in Public Law, University of Birmingham (U.K.), research coordinator of the Administrative Law Project of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, wine broker, counsel to the Federal Department of Justice and Head of Legal Services at the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has appeared before the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has authored papers dealing with copyright, administrative law and class actions. He is a member of the external advisory board of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode Hall Law School. Evaristus Oshionebo Evaristus Oshionebo joined the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law on July 1, 2013. He was awarded a Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, a rarity for professors in their first year at an institution. The award honours faculty members and instructors for their commitment to student success. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Man- itoba. In 2013, he won the University of Manitoba/University of Manitoba Faculty Association Merit Award for Excel- lence in Teaching, as well as the Students’ Teacher Recognition Award for outstanding teaching. Prior to his academic career, he practiced law in Nigeria specializing in corporate and commercial litigation. He was also Deputy Editor of a number of Law Reports including the Supreme Court of Nigeria Law Reports, the Nigerian Weekly Law Reports, and the Commercial Law Reports Quarterly. CCMF 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: Olabisi D. Akinkugbe Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Bisi) is completing his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and is a term assistant professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. His research agenda is situated within contemporary debates on the role of law in economic development and on the potential for an alliance of various tra- ditions from development economics, law, history and politics to understand development policy. At the heart of his research work is an examination of the embedded role of law as a tool for socio-economic development in contracts and regional trade agreements. This idea has informed his doctoral work, publications and forthcoming research. He adopts a socio-legal approach in his thesis to examine how the implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Treaties have been shaped and influenced by the changing historical, economic and political conditions in the region. Prior to his doctoral work, Bisi worked as a Legal Counsel on the first public-private partner- ship road project in West Africa where he advised on various aspects of the transaction and project implementation. He earned his Masters from the University of Toronto, Canada, and an LLB from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. At the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick he currently teaches Contracts, International Trade Law and a seminar on Law and Development. His research interests include business law, transnational law, socio-legal approaches to law, law and development, and African regional economic integration. Qingxiu Bu Qingxiu joined Sussex Law School in 2013, having previously been a lecturer in law at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University (2007-08) and School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (2008-13), during which he taught Transnational Business Law at the Centre of Transactional Legal Studies (CTLS), Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor. Qingxiu was also the Founding Director of the LLM in Law and International Commerce Programme at the Law School, Queen’s University Belfast. He has held visiting posts at various institutions, including Lund University, Sweden; the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Germany; and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Qingxiu was also a docents at the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School in January, 2015. Laura Napoli Coordes Laura Coordes is an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress, including commercial law, large corporate reorganizations, and local government finance and policy. She teaches Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, and Contracts. Professor Coordes is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and frequently publishes in the ABI’s committee newsletters. She serves as a volunteer editor for the ABI’s Volo project, which summarizes and disseminates bankruptcy-related circuit court opinions. Professor Coordes is a member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and has served as a peer reviewer for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Locally, she is an Honorary Master of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. Before coming to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Professor Coordes practiced in the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bradley Fellow and served on the University of Chicago Law Review. After grad- uating from law school, she completed a legal fellowship at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia. Alexander Ezenagu Alexander Ezenagu is a legal practitioner called to the Nigerian bar. He is currently completing a doctorate in Interna- tional Tax Law at McGill University, Canada, and holds a Master of Law degree (LLM) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His doctoral research focuses on international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the rela- tionship between taxation and economic development and on the roles of government and non-government institu- tions and actors in the creation of tax policies and laws. 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: Leslyn Lewis Leslyn Lewis is currently a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Uni- versity of Toronto, Trinity College where she graduated magna cum laude. She went on to pursue a joint Masters in Environmental Studies and Juris Doctorate degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. While at York University she also earned a Masters in Business Administration with concentration in Business and the Environment from the Schulich School of Business. Upon completing the Masters and law degrees she articled on Bay Street at Goodman & Carr, and practised civil and commercial litigation for six years on Bay Street prior to opening her own law practice. Her current legal practice is focussed on international licensing agreements in the energy sector. She is currently in her 3rd year as a PhD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she focuses on foreign direct investments for green energy projects in the developing world. Darcy MacPherson Darcy L. MacPherson is an Associate Professor at the faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. He has been a member of the Faculty since 2002. He has taught courses in Agency and Partnerships, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Secured Trans- actions, and the Law of Taxation, among others. His research interests include corporate criminal liability, corporate law, disability and health, tax law, and agency and partnerships. Ivan Mugabe Ivan has a legal background that has been shaped by combining perspectives from both commercial rights alongside human rights. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law with Honours (LLB) from Uganda Christian University, a Master’s de- gree in International Commercial Law (LLM) from University of South Wales (formerly the University of Glamorgan), UK, and a Master’s degree in LLM International Human Rights Law from Cardiff University, UK Wales. He is currently a 4th year research Candidate at Cardiff University. Charldera Murphy Charldera is an LLM (Master of Laws) candidate in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Kingston. She obtained her LLB (Bachelor of Laws) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados. Her area of concentration is international law with a focus on international trade law. Charldera’s research examines the potential impact that the implementa- tion of the new World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would have in developing Carib- bean countries. One of Charldera’s main goals is to pursue a career in international trade law and gain experience at a renowned international trade organization. Charldera’s desire to pursue a career in international trade law was sparked during her second year of studying her LLB when she was introduced to the topic of Public International Law. Temi Onifade Temi has Master’s degrees in Law and Environmental Policy, and has worked as a lawyer, a law lecturer, and an interdis- ciplinary researcher.
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