Master of Laws

She's a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

She holds an SJD and LLM from Harvard Law School and an LLB from University College London.

And before entering academia, she practiced antitrust and intellectual property law at Allen & Overy in London and Brussels.

Our paper, Egalitarian Antitrust, received the best paper award at ASCOLA 2025.

He's an educator and advocate whose work is reshaping what Indigenous sovereignty looks like in practice.

Andre Bear holds a Bachelor of Education and a Juris Doctor from the University of Saskatchewan and was later awarded a full-ride scholarship to pursue his Master of Law before walking away from it directly and instead working directly with his nations instead.

At just 21 years old, he was appointed as an advisor to the Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations Canada, which was helping implement the Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action 66.

In 2021, he founded iNation, which is a consultant company dedicated to revitalizing Indigenous legal order, restoring the clan systems, ceremonies, and and creation stories that once governed our Nehiyaw way of life long before contact with the European settlers.

She has been a lawyer for 22-23 years and has been teaching.

She has done her LL.M. from London School of Economics.

Her LL.B. is from the University of London.

And this is the meaning of Lahore Autism Initiative.

attitudes, letting go of beliefs.

Let's connect that to the lawyer identity, because that is a very big one for many lawyers and women lawyers, right? So here you are doing your LLM and tax, and here you are also developing your spiritual gifts that require you to shed, to let go of probably limiting beliefs and identities and shoulds and judgments.

And so tell us how you were reconciling that.

sometimes not very well to be

But how did you go about developing those skills more? Intentionally,

as I said, nobody was more surprised than me that this came about because I really had no plan for that.

In fact, I got my LLM in TAS.

While you were developing your skills, you also got an LLM

And Chris took me under his wing.

Chris encouraged me to do the Masters of Law course straight away.

And the first course I did was a stamp duty course with the late Justice Graham Hill.

And Graham Hill, for anybody that knows anything about tax law, is regarded as, still regarded as the preeminent judge in tax law matters and often tell our young graduates this is what they should do and my experience was that we started that course so we'd do it from six o'clock to eight o'clock at night across the road at the law school as it then was and there were about 90 people that started off doing the course and after about three weeks we got down to about 30 and And then I think there were 15 of us that did the halfway assignment and seven of us that did the exam.

It was quite like this.

Yeah, I did what most people do and phoned my mom and she said, listen, why don't you go and do a law degree? And I said, okay, well, there was a course, one year course I wanted to do in LLM, so kind of master's in law.

And so I did that.

So that's how I got into law, basically.

Okay? Here's what they're going to do.

she didn't take questions the first day remember she remember she walked out she goes hi i'm so glad to be she acts like kind of like like a pageant like i just won something you know what social media they say i'm so happy to be here i'm so proud i'm so proud to be here i'm so proud i'm not gonna take any questions bye as she left somebody says i went to law school for five minutes that doesn't make me a lawyer if you had a juris doctorate degree you're a lawyer Are you saying that if you have a law degree, you did three years or four, whatever it was, you have a law degree, you're not a lawyer? If you're a member of the – for example, here, if you're a member – let's say you're a member of the French Bar or you went to a French university or an Italian university and you come to the United States, you normally get an LLM, a master's in law, which kind of brings you kind of up to speed.

You still have to take the – sometimes – oh, there's also something called the reciprocal process.

Some, and they're going to do away with the bar exam eventually.

Um, and I really had this, like, legal perspective the entire time.

Now, I wasn't taking a legal program per se, but whenever I had a choice, there was a legal element to it, and that led to me getting a minor in legal studies, which also led to me then deciding to do a Masters of Law in Galway.

So I took a couple years off after my undergraduate, um, and I worked in a gym and enjoyed life.

And then I was ready to go back to school and kind of redo that s- that social impact aspect of my life.

And so yeah, I found the Masters of Law program at the University of Galway at the Irish Center for Human Rights.

Again, I did my master's in international human rights law.

The program is amazing.

And, and as you, as you know, Galway's a small town, right? Like, not much happens there without you knowing that it's happening.