A member of Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty since 1987, Professor Tom Johnson has held a range of senior academic and administrative roles, including Co‑Director of the Schulich/Osgoode JD/MBA Program, Director of Osgoode’s Intensive Program in Business Law, Director of the Osgoode Business Clinic, and Co‑Director of Osgoode’s LLM Program in Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
A recipient of the Osgoode Teaching Excellence Award, Professor Johnson taught courses in property, contract, company and commercial law, with particular emphasis on secured transactions, bankruptcy and insolvency, capital market regulation, international business transactions, and project finance. His teaching integrated comparative and applied perspectives shaped by decades of involvement in international legal reform and institutional development.
For more than 30 years, Professor Johnson has contributed to global law reform and public‑sector institutional strengthening through initiatives funded by major multilateral donor agencies. His work has focused on land tenure and land titling reform, secured transactions and access to finance, and broader institutional capacity building in developing and transition economies. He has been involved in all stages of project design and execution—from legal and institutional assessments to policy development, legislative drafting, implementation, and training. Through this sustained engagement, he has provided guidance to governments across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
Professor Johnson’s international experience has continually informed his research and teaching, grounding comparative and doctrinal analysis in the practical challenges of legal design and implementation across both common law and civil law jurisdictions.