Leanna Katz is a doctoral student at McGill University Faculty of Law, an O’Brien Graduate Fellow at the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. Her research interests include labour and employment law, social welfare law, contract law, administrative law, and critical and feminist legal theory. 

Leanna’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, and the Commonwealth Judicial Journal.

Leanna previously clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, and was a litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. She earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, and B.A.Sc. from McMaster University’s Arts and Science Program.