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Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey

Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey

Professor

Contact:
250-853-3761
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Credentials:
LLB Hons (University of Ghana), BL (Ghana Law School), LLM (Queen's University), LLM (University of Calgary), DJur (York University)
Area of expertise:
Torts, remedies, insurance, critical race and feminist theories

Biography

Professor & Associate VP Academic Programs. Associate Dean Admin & Research, 2010-16; Chair, Employment Equity Advisory Comm. 2013-15; Member: Degree Quality Assessment Brd; BCCAT Research Comm.

Education

  • LLB (Hons), University of Ghana
  • BL, Ghana Law School
  • LLM, Queen's University
  • LLM, University of Calgary
  • DJur, York University

Selected books

  • Co-author (with Ken Cooper Stephenson), Personal Injury Damages in Canada, 3rd ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2018) Editor, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Insurance (General) (Carswell, 2016)
  • Co-author (with Jamie Cassels), Remedies: The Law of Damages, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)

Selected publications

  • “Moral Legitimacy of the Principle of Restitutio in Integrum: Towards Social Progress in the Valuation of Impaired Working Capacity?” (2021) 102 Supreme Court Law Rev (2d), 261-281
  • “Striking the Right Balance: Does the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Promote Access to Insurance?” (2021) 14(2) McGill Journal of Law & Health, 147-178;
  • “Rights and Tort Law: Respecting Children’s Decisional Autonomy for Medical Interventions” (2018) 84 Supreme Court Law Rev (2d) 161-199, reprinted in Margaret I. Hall, ed., The Canadian Law of Obligations: Private Law for the 21st Century and Beyond (LexisNexis, 2018), 161–199;
  • “Protecting Survivors of Domestic Violence within the Insurance Regime: Opportunities to Seek Termination or Variation of Insurance Contracts”, Canadian Journal of Family Law (2014) 29(1) Canadian Journal of Family Law, 211-238;
  • “Replicating and Perpetuating Inequalities in Personal Injury Claims through Female-Specific Contingencies” (2004), 49 McGill Law J, 309-348

Recognition and Awards

  • Terry J Wuester Teaching Excellence Award, 2019

Courses