Poonam Puri Awarded David W. Mundell Medal for Excellence in Legal Writing

Davies affiliated scholar and Osgoode Hall Law Professor Poonam Puri has received the David W. Mundell Medal, a prestigious award presented annually by the Attorney General of Ontario to those who have made an outstanding contribution to law and letters.

Poonam is one of Canada’s most respected legal scholars and public intellectuals on issues of corporate law and governance, securities regulation and white-collar crime. Her legal writing, grounded in rich contextual and empirical analysis, has earned her a unique position of trust within academic, private practice and business circles, and her ideas have led governments, regulators and public sector organizations in Canada and abroad to act in the public interest and solve complex social and economic problems.

Poonam’s extensive body of work includes more than 24 articles, 18 book chapters and six books for academic audiences as well as the practising bar. She is frequently sought out by policy-makers for her expertise and has written over 23 independent reports for bodies such as the Bank of Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission, the Law Commission of Ontario, the Capital Markets Institute, Corporations Canada, national and provincial governments, and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

In her role at Davies, Poonam draws on her expansive legal knowledge and hands-on leadership experience to provide incisive counsel to boards, special committees and management on a wide array of corporate governance matters.

Established in 1986 by former Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott, the Mundell Medal is intended to be the “Pulitzer Prize” for legal writing. The medal is named after David Walter Mundell, a renowned constitutional lawyer and the first director of the ministry’s Constitutional Law Branch.