Meet our dedicated team who work tirelessly to improve the lives of Canadians and their families. Together, Institute staff, researchers and our growing network of Senior Fellows from around the world have helped make us the top think tank in Canada.
Liya Palagashvili
Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute
Liya Palagashvili, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Institute and a Research Fellow
at New York University School of Law. Liya earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2015, and while in graduate school she was also a Visiting PhD Fellow with the Department of Economics at New York University. She has published in academic journals and in major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, MSN, and U.S. News and World Report, among others. Her research is in law and economics, political economy, development economics, and entrepreneurship. She is currently conducting interviews with tech entrepreneurs and creating a unique survey to examine early tech start-ups and the regulatory framework in their industries, as well as, finishing up a book analyzing the policies in response to the 2008 financial crisis. In 2016, Liya was named one of the Forbes ’30 under 30’ in Law & Policy.
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Bruce Pardy
Professor of Law, Queen’s University
Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University, senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights
Probe (rightsprobe.org). A critic of legal progressivism and the discretionary managerial state, he has written on a range of subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law, including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets, and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach.
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