New and familiar faces at the Faculty of Law

The Faculty is delighted to extend a warm welcome both to new colleagues and to old friends this month.

Professor Barnali Choudhury, from the Charleston School of Law, has joined the Faculty for a 12-month period, and she will be contributing immensely to our offerings and our research in Corporate Law.  An attorney since 2002, Choudhury previously practised corporate and international arbitration with Toronto firms. She also served as a law clerk to the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France. She currently continues to work with the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland as a consultant on an international trade and human rights project.

Professor Tom Carbonneau, an old friend of the Faculty and a leading scholar in the law of international, comparative and domestic arbitration, joins us as Fulbright Visiting Research Chair until June 2010. Tom Carbonneau is Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice, Penn State University. He also co‐directs the Summer Program in Arbitration Law at the McGill Faculty of Law and oversees publication of the Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation.

The Honorable Claudette Picard, j.c.s., of the Quebec Superior Court, has joined the Faculty for a few months as part of the Judicial Education Leave program for federal judges. A former partner of Stikeman, Elliott, Claudette Picard she was Bâtonnier of the Quebec Bar in 1994-1995.

Finally, obligations and sûretés expert Professor Élise Charpentier from the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Law, is taking her sabbatical leave with us. She is a member of the editorial board of the Dictionnaire de droit privé / Private Law Dictionary project at the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law.