Ariel Montana
Articling Student
A
riel is an articling student at Edelson Foord Law. She received her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Throughout law school, Ariel focused on criminal and international law, graduating with an International, Comparative and Transnational Law Program designation.
Ariel gained valuable career experience during her legal studies by working as a student at a criminal defence firm in Toronto. While in law school, she completed the International and Transnational Law Intensive Program, where she was placed with the Social Rights Advocacy Centre, a not-for-profit NGO that provides access to justice for social rights in Canada and around the world. Ariel also competed in the Price Media Law Mooting Competition, placing as a finalist in the Americas round and advancing to the International Rounds at Oxford University.
Ariel was an editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal during her three years of law school. She also edited for theCourt.ca, a blog providing commentary on and analysis of Supreme Court of Canada decisions. In addition, Ariel did research work in both English and French as a research assistant for the third volume of A History of Law in Canada.
Prior to attending law school, Ariel worked in international relations in Ottawa for the federal government. She holds a Joint Honours degree in History and Political Science from McGill University. She completed her Master of Arts in History at the University of Toronto where she examined migration from Latin America to Canada in the late twentieth century.
Ariel summered with Edelson Foord Law before returning as an articling student in 2024. She has experience supporting lawyers at the firm in regulatory offences and all matter of criminal offences, including, but not limited to, assaults, sexual assaults, drug trafficking, impaired
driving, and homicide.