UT students sweep Insolvency Institute of Canada essay competition

University of Toronto Faculty of Law students swept the pool in the Insolvency Institute of Canada's Student Essay Competition 2010, placing first, second and third.

The competition is held annually and is open to JD students across the country. Essays must be on a restructuring-related topic. First prize is $5,000, second prize is $3,500 and third prize is $1,500. The winner is invited to the IIC's Annual Meeting where there is a formal presentation. Our three prize winners were as follows:

• First place: Karma Dolkar, "Re-Thinking Rescue: A Critical Examination of CCAA Liquidation Plans"
• Second place: Jeremy Opolsky, "Court-to-Court Communications and Cross-Border Insolvency Protocols"
• Third place: Jessica Latimer, "Teaching a Watchdog New Tricks: CCAA Monitors and Conflicts of Interest".

Read the essays on the IIC website.

Karma Dolkar received her winner's prize at this year's IIC Annual Meeting in Scottsdale Arizona in November. Her essay will be published in the IIC's Annual Symposium on Insolvency Law to appear in a special issue of the Banking and Finance Law Review in mid-2011.

Jeremy Opolsky's paper is being published in the United States in a specialist international insolvency law journal.

(L-R) Prof. Anthony Duggan; Karma Dolkar, first-place winner in the IIC 2010 Law Student Writing Awards Program; David Mann, Chair of the Judges Panel, IIC Law Student Writing Awards Program