Christian Bekking is an articling student in Smart & Biggar’s Toronto office. He recently earned his J.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Christian was the recipient of the Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Award in 2020, awarded for academic excellence and a demonstrated commitment to teamwork as evidenced by participation in extra-curricular programs, committees and organizations.
Prior to beginning law school, Christian earned a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Western Ontario and completed a M.Sc. in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. He served as an Osgoode IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, as Co-President of the Osgoode Health Law Association, and as an Osgoode Hall Student Ambassador. Christian was also a co-winner of the Osgoode Hockey Arbitration Competition in 2021.
Before articling at Smart & Biggar, Christian was a summer law student in Smart & Biggar’s Toronto office in 2020 and 2021.
Qualifications
- News
- Speaking
- In the Media
- Speaker, "Transmission of respiratory viruses: from basic science to evidence based options for control,” Evaluation of bioaerosol samplers in a ferret model of influenza infection Conference, Hong Kong, 2017
Publications
- "Burden of non-influenza respiratory viral infections in adults admitted to hospital: analysis of a multiyear Canadian surveillance cohort at 2 centres," (co-authors: Nelson Lee, Stephanie Smith, et. al.), CMAJ, March 29, 2021, Vol. 193, Issue 13, pp. 439-446
- "Evaluation of bioaerosol samplers for the detection and quantification of influenza virus from artificial aerosols and influenza virus–infected ferrets," (co-authors: Lily Yip, Nicolas Groulx, Nathan Doggett, Mairead Finn, and Samira Mubareka), Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, November 2019, Vol. 13, Issue 6, pp. 564-573 (First published on September 21, 2019)