Dr. Virginia Torrie

Biography

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 Law at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law. Virginia has also held appointments at various prestigious institutions including the University of Saskatchewan, Australian National University, the University of Cape Town, and the National University of Singapore. Her scholarship includes a landmark study of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and influential work on federalism in Canadian insolvency law, which has been cited in appellate and lower courts across Canada. Virginia serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review and has led international initiatives to support emerging scholarship in fintech and financial regulation. She teaches Legal History and Business Regulation and is noted for her Law ’80 Lecture titled "Thirteen Economies, Country: Highest Court Undermined National Canadian Economy." In October 2025, she will be advancing research on farm restructuring in emerging economies.

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