[1] By 2006, she was promoted to Associate Professor[3] and received the Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Summer Research Fellowship.
[5] During the following academic year, she received the Osgoode Hall Leave Fellowship for 2008-09[6] and later earned an INSOL International Scholar appointment.
[5] On April 7, 2015, Ben-Ishai received an Osgoode Hall Research Fellowships to complete a project on student loan debt.
[8] Ben-Ishai took a sabbatical during the 2018–19 academic year and served as the Thomas Feeney Visiting Professor of Business Law at the University of Ottawa.
[9] On June 21, 2019, Ben-Ishai was appointed a York University Distinguished Research Professor "in recognition of her exceptional scholarly achievements and substantial impact on the field of bankruptcy law.