Bio
Beverly Osazuwa is a summer student in Gowling WLG's Toronto office.
Beverly is a 3L completing her bachelor of civil law and juris doctor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
During her time in law school, Beverly was a senior editor of the McGill Law Journal and the English editor-in-chief of the Black (Canadian) Law Journal. She participated in the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Law Moot, volunteered with the DESTA Black Community Network, the Black Law Student Association of McGill and the McGill Art Law Association, and interned at the Center for Art Law (Brooklyn, NYC).
Passionate about community work, Beverly was the student coordinator of the Law-Éducation-Connexion Outreach Program, a program providing legal education workshops in Montreal high schools and partnering with community organizations on access to justice initiatives. She also served as a teaching assistant in Legal Foundations and a research assistant for several of her professors.
Furthermore, Beverly completed a credited judicial clerkship at the Superior Court of Quebec under the Honourable Judge Shaun Finn.
Prior to attending law school, Beverly enjoyed her time in Ottawa, living by the canal and working at the Library of Parliament, under the Justice and National Security Division. She earned her master’s in political and legal thought from Queen’s University and her bachelor of humanities, minoring in African studies and political science from Carleton University, where she won the University Medal in her program.
Beverly will focus her summer in the firm’s Advocacy Department.