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Investor Protection Clinic
No full textProfessor Poonam Puri talks about Osgoode Hall Law School\u27s new Investor Protection Clinic and how it is helping aggrieved investors
Professor Poonam Puri Awarded Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Research Fellowship
No full textYork University Professors Poonam Puri and Catriona Sandilands have been named as two of only five scholars across Canada to be awarded prestigious research fellowships by The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation this year
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri to receive the Law Society Medal
No full textOsgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri and alumna Susan Kyle (LLB \u2791) have each been awarded The Law Society Medal, one of the highest honours granted to members of Ontario\u27s legal professions
Professor Poonam Puri appointed a Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission for a two-year term
No full textTORONTO, Jan. 26, 2018 /CNW/ - Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) Chair and CEO Maureen Jensen announced today the following appointments to the Commission. These Commissioners will each serve a two-year term.
Poonam Puri is a respected scholar and commentator on issues of corporate governance, corporate law, securities law and financial regulation. For the past 20 years, she has been a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she teaches and conducts research on securities regulation and investor protection. Poonam was one of two research directors for the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, Federal Ministry of Finance, which led to the proposed common securities regulator
Panel 2: Restitution Law
No full textPANEL II: RESTITUTION LAW: Poonam Puri, Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School; Speaker: Andrew Kull, Professor, Boston University, A Consideration Which Happens to Fail ; Speaker: Dan Priel, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Justice and Unjust Enrichment ; Discussant: Benjamin Geva, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Tethyan Resources announces appointment of Professor Poonam Puri to Board of Directors
No full textTethyan Resources announced on April 22 the appointment of Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri to its board of directors.
Tethyan Resources is a member of the Augusta Group of Companies, and is a precious and base metals mineral exploration company incorporated in England and Wales and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Tethyan is focused on the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt in Eastern Europe, mainly Serbia, where it is acquiring and exploring a portfolio of quality precious and base metals projects with known mineralization and compelling drill targets. It emphasizes responsible engagement with local communities and stakeholders, and is committed to the proactive implementation of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) and sustainable health, safety and environmental management.
Puri is a professor of law and former associate dean at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. She is also an affiliated scholar to Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate governance, corporate law, securities law and financial regulation. Puri is currently a commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission and serves on the board of directors of the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
On the board of directors for Tethyan Resources, Puri replaces Michael Andrews who has resigned to focus on his professional commitments at a number of other companies where he holds senior executive positions.
Jerrold Annett, chief executive officer, said, “We would like to thank Dr. Andrews for his long-term support and wish him well in his future endeavours. We are very pleased to have Professor Puri join our board, bringing deep expertise in the area of corporate governance as she did at Arizona Mining. With the closing of our $5-million private placement last week, we are well funded for our 2019 exploration program.”
More information can be found on Tethyan’s website
Professor Poonam Puri and FAIR Canada Receive Law Foundation of Ontario Grant to Create Investor Protection Clinic and Living Lab -- the First Legal Clinic of its Kind in Canada
No full textA grant of close to $100,000 from the Law Foundation of Ontario will fund the creation of a new legal clinic spearheaded by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri in partnership with FAIR Canada
First person – Poonam Sehgal
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Poonam Sehgal is the first author on ‘Epidermal growth factor receptor and integrins control force-dependent vinculin recruitment to E-cadherin junctions’, published in Journal of Cell Science. The work in this article was carried out while Poonam was a postdoc in the lab of Dr Deborah Leckband at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, investigating the mechanism of E-cadherin-mediated force-transduction signaling in epithelial cells.</jats:p
"There are millions of young Indians who feel frustrated with their lives.... I really want the Indian government to take these frustrations seriously." - Snigdha Poonam
No full textLSE South Asia Centre recently invited Snigdha Poonam, journalist at Hindustan Times and author of Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World, for a panel discussion entitled 'Who are the Middle Class in South Asia?' as part of the South Asia Summit 2018. In conversation with Anirbaan Banerjee, she talks about aggressive Indian nationalism, the political and economic frustrations of the middle-class young Indian, women's aspirations and a growing social-political crisis in India
Change Makers 2016: Osgoode Annual Research Celebration
No full textOsgoode\u27s Annual Research Celebration, which was held on Wednesday, November 23, 2016, reflected on what it means for legal scholars and researchers to be Change Makers. Osgoode speakers included: Professors Liora Salter, Stepan Wood, Gus Van Harten, Poonam Puri and Ruth Buchanan as well as Chief Law Librarian Louis Mirando. In addition, 2016/2017 Osgoode Artist in Residence Dan Bergeron talked about his residency project at the Law School
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