Hosted by CBA Child & Youth South in Alberta from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm on February 2, 2021

Link: https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=ab_ab21cyl02s

Speaker: Jennifer Koshan

Faculty of Law, University of Calgary


Before joining the Faculty in 2000, Jennifer practiced for several years in the Northwest Territories as Crown counsel, and worked as the Legal Director of the B.C. branch of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), a non-profit equality rights organization. Jennifer served as Graduate Program Director from 2006-2011, as Associate Dean (Research) from 2007-2011, and as ABlawg Coordinator from 2007 to 2011 and 2013 to present.

Jennifer regularly sits on LEAF case subcommittees. She is a member of the Equality Effect's volunteer legal team, working with international human rights law to improve the lives of women and girls and is a founding member of the Women's Court of Canada, a feminist judgment writing project. She also sits on the boards of the Alberta Law Reform Institute, Canadian Association of Law Teachers, and Public Interest Law Clinic.