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Overview

Pnina Alon-Shenker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law & Business and the founding Academic Director of the Law & Business Clinic. She served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel in 2002-2003 and was called to the Israeli Bar in 2003. She earned her LL.B. from Haifa University, LL.M. from the Hebrew University and the University of Toronto, and S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. She joined 糖心传媒 in 2009 and was appointed Assistant Professor in 2010.

Her research interests span labour and employment law, with a focus on scope and coverage issues, human rights in the workplace - including privacy, discrimination, and diversity - the aging workforce, and forms of employee representation and voice. Her research advances an innovative critique of contemporary legal analysis of age discrimination in the workplace and develops a new paradigm, grounded in legal and philosophical theories of equality, that better articulates the wrongs associated with age discrimination in the workplace. Among her recent projects, she has examined the laws governing employee dismissal for off-duty social media activity and employee's right to a private life, as well as legal protections for workers experiencing menopause. 

Pnina Alon-Shenker received the Ted Rogers School Research Recognition Award in 2025, the Dean's Service Award in 2021, and the Dean鈥檚 Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Award in 2014. In 2016, she received the Provost's Experiential Teaching Award in recognition of her work developing and leading the Law & Business Clinic. She was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of . She is part of the Labour Law Casebook Group co-editing the Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary (Irwin Law).