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Leah MackLeah graduated from St. Francis Xavier University with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours), with a major in Marketing. She attended Osgoode Hall Law School. Leah was a member and Vice-President of the Osgoode Hall Aboriginal Students Association from 2003-2006.
Leah worked as a research assistant to Professor Kent McNeil, a leading academic in the field of Aboriginal rights. During that time, she conducted extensive research on Aboriginal rights to the foreshore and seabed as well as the fiduciary obligations for non-economic wrongs and the principles of equitable remedy. In 2006, she participated in the Aboriginal Intensive Program in Lands, Resources and the Environment, and spent a semester in New Zealand working with a Maori group, the Tainui, on their claim to the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand, spanning 425 kms.
Leah was called to the British Columbia Bar in June 2007. Leah's works primarily in the areas of corporate law, band governance, on-reserve administrative, land-use issues, on-reserve leasing and treaty implementation. Leah has a particular interest in First Nations membership issues, specifically Bill C-31 and the residual effects experienced by Aboriginal woman and their communities.
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