Introducing Tanya Monestier!
Tanya will be posting about her latest scholarship which is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review. You can find it on SSRN here, but you can also tune in tomorrow and Wednesday and read a nice preview here.
After graduating first in her class from Osgoode Hall, Tanya clerked for the Honorable Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. She then earned her LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. She was a visiting professor at Queen’s University, where she taught Conflict of Laws, Commercial Law and Civil Procedure and won the Queen’s Law Students’ Society Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009. She has been teaching at Roger Williams since 2009. The 2018 graduating class named her “Professor of the Year,” and she was the honored as the Distinguished Research Professor of Law from 2018-2020.
Tanya worked as in-house counsel for the U.S. pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, specializing in product liability litigation. At Roger Williams, she teaches Contracts, Sales, Conflict of Laws, and Class Actions. Her early scholarship was mostly on civil procedure topics, but writing about choice-of-forum and choice-of-law clauses took her into the realm of contracts, and once one has known the warm embrace of contracts scholarship, is there any going back?
We are so grateful to Tanya for her willingness to pinch hit for us and share her scholarship with our readers!