Qualifications

Panel Appointments and Credentials

Janet is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and of the Bar of Ontario and a licensed legal consultant of the New York State Bar. She has a good working knowledge of Spanish and French. Her educational qualifications include: BA (Hons), MA, York University, JD (Osgoode Hall Law School) and MA, DPhil (Oxon).

PANELS

  • American Arbitration Association—ICDR Panel of International Neutrals
  • Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) Fellow and Panel Member
  • British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC) Panel of Arbitrators
  • China Int’l Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) Panel of Arbitrators
  • Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) Panel of Arbitrators
  • Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) Panel member
  • Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC) Panel of Arbitrators
  • Shenzhen Commission on International Arbitration (SCIA) Panel of Arbitrators
  • Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators
  • Ukrainian Chamber International Commercial Arbitration Court – Recommended Arbitrator

 

CREDENTIALS

Professional

  • ALI – International Advisory, Transnational Rules Project
  • American Bar Association Litigation Section Working Group on Protocols for Parallel Class Actions
  • American Law Institute (ALI) – Elected Member
  • American Society of International Law (ASIL)
  • Arbitralwomen – Founding Member
  • Arbitration Place – Member
  • Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto/Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (Program Cmte 2010-14)
  • ASIL – Steering Cmte, Private International Law Group
  • Athenaeum Club, London
  • Canadian Association of Law Teachers
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Canadian Council on International Law – Board of Directors
  • CIArb Canadian Branch – Executive – founding chair, Toronto Chapter
  • CIArb Oxford Diploma Course on International Commercial Arbitration – Co-Director
  • Governor General’s Horse Guards Association – Life Member
  • International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law – Elected Member
  • International Association of Procedural Law – Secretary General
  • International Bar Association
  • ICC Commission – Member
  • International Bar Association Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Collective Redress
  • International Council on Commercial Arbitration (ICCA 2018 Sydney Executive Organizing Committee)
  • International Law Association Canadian Branch – Past President, and co-chair of 72nd Biennial Conference
  • International Lawyers for Africa – Tunisian National Committee
  • Law Commission of Ontario – Scholar in Residence
  • Law Society of Upper Canada
  • London Court of International Arbitration
  • Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg – Scientific Advisory Board
  • Massey College – Senior Fellow
  • Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg – Scientific Advisory Board
  • Osgoode Society
  • Shenzhen Commission on International Arbitration (SCIA) Panel of Arbitrators
  • The Advocates’ Society
  • Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society – Program Committee
  • ULCC – Member, National Class Action Reform Project
  • University Club of Toronto
  • Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot – Arbitrator
  • Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (WCA) Freeman of the City of London
  • Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners’ – Steering Committee, Advisory Board

Educational

  • DPhil, Oxford University (Law – Conflict of Laws) (MA, 2010)
  • JD (formerly LLB) Osgoode Hall Law School
  • MA, York University (Social Theory)
  • BA (Hons), York University (Arts – Individualized Studies)

 

Visiting Appointments

  • Faculté des sciences juridiques, sociales et politiques de Tunis (2001-13)
  • Institute in International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution in Zadar (2013)
  • Monash University in Prato, Italy (2013)
  • Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University College, Oxford University (2010)
  • Jerusalem Exchange Faculty Advisor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010)
  • Hauser Global Law Faculty, NYU/NUS Joint Program in Singapore (2008)
  • Hauser Global Law Faculty, NYU School of Law (2007)
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2006)
  • Haifa University, Faculty of Law (2006)
  • Monash University, Faculty of Law (2002)