Assistant Professor Anna Lund promoted to Associate Professor

Assistant Professor Anna Lund has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.

Lund started at the Faculty as a sessional instructor in January 2015 and as an Assistant Professor in July 2016. She focuses her teaching and research in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency, debtor creditor law, civil procedure, access to justice, and gambling.

Her current research interests include medical bankruptcy, employment insurance, the co-operative business model, and the environmental obligations of insolvent corporations. Her book Trustees at Work: Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law was published in December 2019 by the University of British Columbia Press.

Lund has developed and taught courses that align with her research interests and has been recognized for her work with students. She is the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the University of Alberta Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities, and the Faculty of Law's Tevie H Miller Teaching Award.

She continues to practise on a pro bono basis through the Edmonton Community Legal Centre and the Court of Queen's Bench Amicus Program. She serves on the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta Branch) Access to Justice Committee.

Lund holds an LLB from the University of Alberta, an LLM from the University of California Berkeley and a PhD from the University of British Columbia.

Her promotion to Associate Professor is effective July 1, 2021.