Prof. Anita Anand is the new head Centre for the Legal Profession

Professor Anita Anand has been appointed academic director of the Centre for the Legal Profession (CLP). 

Anand joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from Queen's University. She is currently an associate professor and is cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy and Governance.  She served as associate dean of the JD Program at the Faculty from 2007-2009. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa and a Herbert Smith Visitor at the University of Cambridge.

Anand has conducted research for the Province of Ontario’s Five Year Review Committee, the federal Wise Person's Committee, and the IDA Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada.  She is chair of the Ontario Securities Commission's Investor Advisory Panel, editor of Canadian Law eJournal, published by the Legal Scholarship Network, and president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association.

• Read Prof. Anand's message as the new academic director of the CLP