Richard Haigh
Visiting Professor
BSc (Eng) (Calgary), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Cambridge)
Richard Haigh is currently a Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Director of Osgoode’s Public Interest Requirement program and Co-Director of the Professional LLM in Constitutional Law at Osgoode. He is also currently working on his doctoral degree at the University of Toronto in the area of freedom of conscience and religion. He was, until December 2007, the Associate Director, Graduate Program at Osgoode Professional Development. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, a Senior Advisor at the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa, and a Legal Research and Writing Lecturer at Osgoode. His research and teaching interests include Constitutional Law, Public Law, and Equity and Trusts. His recent published works include papers on dialogue theory, noise by-laws, election financing laws and prisoners' voting rights; he is also a contributor to the 2006 Public Law casebook published by Emond-Montgomery.
Email: rhaigh@osgoode.yorku.ca
Nsongurua J. Udombana
Visiting Professor
LLB, LLM (Lagos), LLD (Unisa)
Nsongurua Udombana is a Professor of International Law and current Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Uyo, Nigeria. He is also a member of the University’s Governing Council and a member of Nigeria’s Council of Legal Education. Educated at the Universities of Lagos and South Africa, Professor Udombana taught law for twelve years at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, before proceeding to the Central European University, Budapest, as an Associate Professor and Director its Center for Human Rights. Professor Udombana has made numerous scholarly presentations at different international fora. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of many law journals and reviews and consults for a number of organizations, including the Open Society Justice Initiative. A former visiting Research Fellow with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Professor Udombana writes on international law and the judicial process, with an Africanist perspective, and publishes globally on these themes. Many of his publications may be assessed at e-libraries, including the Social Science Research Network Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1162030.
Philip Girard
Visiting Professor
B.A. (Brock), LL.B. (McGill), LL.M. (U. Calif., Berkeley), Ph. D. (Dalhousie)
Philip Girard is University Research Professor, and Professor of Law, History & Canadian Studies at Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Professor Girard previously visited Osgoode as the Lewtas Professor in 1993-1994. At Dalhousie, he has served as the Law School’s Acting Dean (1991-1993) and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research (2002-2006). In 2010 – 2011, he was Visiting Scholar, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto. He enjoys a richly deserved reputation for collegial and professional service, the list of which is almost as long as his publications. Recently, he has served as Chair, Law, Criminology & Socio-legal Studies Adjudication Committee, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008-11. He has also served as President, Canadian Association of Law Teachers (2003-04).
Professor Girard is one of Canada’s most distinguished and pre-eminent legal academics and legal historians. His publications include Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, forthcoming 2011); Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2005) (for which he was awarded the Champlain Society’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award 2006 – for best book published on Ontario history in previous year and shortlisted for the John A. Macdonald Prize 2006, for best book published on Canadian history in 2005 ). He is also Editor (with Jim Phillips and Barry Cahill) of The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2004); co-author (with Jim Phillips) of “Introduction” to same; Editor (with Jim Phillips) of Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume III, Nova Scotia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 1990); co-author (with Jim Phillips) of “Introduction” to same. He is the author of numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters.
Email: pgirard@osgoode.yorku.ca