Before entering academia, she spent a lot of time in school (M.A. & Ph.D from Rice; LL.B. from Ottawa; LL.M. from Harvard). She practiced law at Cox & Palmer in Halifax and is a member of the Nova Scotia bar. She clerked with Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada. She teaches Torts, Advanced Torts, Health Law and a seminar on defamation and privacy law.