Pnina Alon-Shenker

Overview

Pnina Alon-Shenker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law & Business and the founding Academic Director of the Law & Business Clinic. She served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel in 2002-2003 and was called to the Israeli Bar in 2003. She earned her LL.B. from Haifa University, LL.M. from the Hebrew University and University of Toronto, and S.J.D from University of Toronto. She joined Toronto Metropolitan University as a sessional instructor in 2009 and became an Assistant Professor in 2010.

Her research interests centre on labour and employment law with an emphasis on workplace discrimination and diversity, the aging workforce, and forms of employee representation and voice. Her current research advances an innovative critique of contemporary legal analysis of age discrimination in the workplace and develops a new paradigm, founded in legal and philosophical theories of equality, which better articulates the wrongs associated with age discrimination in the workplace. This research also has prominent practical implications for topical legal challenges faced by the aging workforce such as the duty to accommodate senior workers, mandatory retirement and cost-based defence claims.

Pnina Alon-Shenker received the Dean’s Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Award in 2014 for her recent scholarly achievements. In 2016 she received the Provost's Experiential Teaching Award in recognition of her work to develop and lead the Law & Business Clinic. She was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (external link, opens in new window) . She is part of the Labour Law Casebook Group co-editing the Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Material, and Commentary (Irwin Law).