Professor Virginia Torrie is a leading expert in banking, insolvency, and financial law, and a highly regarded legal historian. She previously served as Associate Dean and Chair of the Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law and has held appointments at the University of Saskatchewan, Australian National University, University of Cape Town, and the National University of Singapore. Her scholarship, which includes a landmark study of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and influential work on federalism in Canadian insolvency law, has been cited by appellate and lower courts across Canada. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review, where she has led several international initiatives to support emerging scholarship in fintech and financial regulation.
Virginia will teach Legal History of Business Regulation during the Fall term and will present the Law ’80 Lecture “Thirteen Economies, One Country: How the Highest Court Undermined a National Canadian Economy” on October 6, 2025. During her visit, she also will be advancing her research on farm restructuring in emerging economies.