A member of Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty since 1982, Professor Monahan served as Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School from 2003 to 2009 and became Vice-President Academic & Provost of York University on July 1, 2009. He is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario, which is housed at Osgoode, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Power Authority. One of Canada’s foremost constitutional law experts, he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Attorney General and Premier of Ontario respectively between 1986 and 1990, playing a key role in the negotiation of the 1987 Meech Lake Accord. Professor Monahan has acted as advisor to the federal government as well as a number of provincial governments respecting economic, constitutional and international trade matters. He was the Director of the York University Centre for Public Law and Public Policy for most of the 1990s through to 2002. He is the author of several books, including Constitutional Law, 3rd edition (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006) and Liability of the Crown, 3rd edition (with Peter Hogg) (Toronto: Carswell, 2000). He is the recipient of the 2008 David W. Mundell Medal for Legal Writing awarded by the Attorney General of Ontario.

Research and Supervisory Interests: Constitutional law; Canadian federalism; Administrative law.