Dr. Jennifer Farrell

Biography

Jennifer Farrell is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University and an Associate Research Fellow at the Tax Administration Research Centre (TARC) at the University of Exeter Business School. She completed her doctoral research at Queen Mary, University of London, with an LLM in Tax from King's College London. Before her tenure at Western, Jennifer held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the International Taxation Institute in Vienna, Austria, where she lectured in the LLM tax program. Her doctoral research received the prestigious Mitchell B. Carroll prize from the International Fiscal Association and she has been recognized as one of the '100 Influential Women in Tax' by the IFA. Her research interests lie at the intersection of tax laws, cross-border taxation, trade laws, and technology, including areas like WTO and EU law, as well as cryptocurrencies. Jennifer actively participates in the Canadian Tax Foundation and has held various positions within the Young IFA Network Committee (Canada) and the Permanent Scientific Committee (Canada). She has received research funding from multiple sources and teaches courses including Income Taxation and International Tax Law. In recognition of her outstanding teaching, she was awarded 'Professor of the Year' by the Student Legal Society in 2017-18.

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