Event Description
Allard Law Professor David Duff has organized a number of tax law and policy workshops for JD and LLM Taxation students at Allard Law. Join Professor David Duff and former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Marshall Rothstein for lunch and a discussion on tax law and policy. Justice Rothstein will discuss his experience as a judge, where he wrote some of the leading tax judgments at the Federal Court of Appeal, and at the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2015.
Space is limited to 24 students. Lunch will be provided at these workshops. Please arrive early to secure your seat. If you have any questions, please email Professor Duff at duff@allard.ubc.ca.
Speakers
The Honourable Marshall Rothstein, C.C., KC, is one of Canada’s most esteemed jurists, he served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2006 until his retirement in 2015, and he has over 50 years of judicial and legal experience.
Marshall’s work has shaped the Canadian business law landscape, having authored more than 100 judgments and arbitral decisions on domestic and cross-border cases of commercial significance and complexity. He brings a unique perspective to the firm, and his broad-ranging practice focuses on a wide variety of dispute resolution matters, including M&A, tax, competition, intellectual property and issues in the transportation and energy sectors.
David G. Duff is Professor of Law and Director of the Tax LLM program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and writes in the areas of areas of tax law and policy, corporate and international taxation, environmental taxation and distributive justice.
Prior to joining UBC Law in 2009, Professor Duff was a faculty member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Before that, he was a tax associate at the Toronto office of Stikeman, Elliott. He was also employed as a researcher with the Ontario Fair Tax Commission from 1991 to 1993 and as a tax policy analyst with the Ontario Ministry of Finance from 1993 to 1994.
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