Benjamin Alarie


Benjamin Alarie is a Canadian jurist, law professor, and entrepreneur. He holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and is CEO of Blue J Legal. He holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Toronto, and Yale University. He is perhaps most well-known for pioneering the idea of the "legal singularity" in 2016 in an article in the University of Toronto Law Journal and in subsequent popular and scholarly work.
Professor Alarie researches and teaches in taxation law and judicial decision-making, and was awarded the Alan Mewett QC Prize for excellence in teaching by the law school’s graduating class of 2009. Before joining the Faculty of Law as a full-time professor in 2004, Professor Alarie completed graduate work in law at the Yale Law School and was a law clerk for Madam Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has dozens of academic publications, and his research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is a coauthor of several editions of a leading legal text on tax law, Canadian Income Tax Law, including the most recent 6th Edition.

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