Lara Tessaro

Lara Tessaro is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a PhD candidate at Kent Law School.

Her PhD research examines material and temporal enactments of cosmetics regulation in Canada, with a focus on cosmetic product labelling. Her thesis is supervised by Professor Emily Grabham and Professor Emilie Cloatre.

She previously earned an Hons B.A. and an LLB from the University of Toronto, and an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. From 2004-2017, she practiced primarily environmental and administrative law in Canada.

Socio-legal methods, Canadian federalism, legal history, materiality, temporality, gender, toxicity.

Lara teaches constitutional and administrative law on the Public Law 1 module - LW588.