Expertise: Business Law

Petrin, Martin

Martin Petrin is the Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance at York University, with a joint appointment at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business. He was the inaugural Dancap Private Equity Chair in Corporate Governance at Western University and previously served as the Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor at the National University of Singapore, a Distinguished Fellow and Visiting Professor at Notre Dame London, a Visiting Professor at NYU London, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private Law. Martin has practiced law at a leading international business law firm and is admitted to the Bar in New York and Switzerland.

Research Interests: Corporate law and governance, including the impacts of AI and new technologies

Hewitt, Jeffery G.

Jeffery Hewitt joined the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019. After graduating from Osgoode in 1996, Professor Hewitt returned to complete his LLM in 2015/16. Professor Hewitt’s research interests include Indigenous legal orders and governance, constitutional law, human rights, legal education, business law, as well as art + law and visual legal studies. Professor Hewitt has taught constitutional law and is a co-director of Osgoode’s Intensive Program in Indigenous Lands, Resources, and Governments. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1998 and is mixed-descent Cree.

He has recently edited a collection of works with Richard Moon and Beverley Jacobs on religious freedom and Indigenous spirituality (University of Toronto Press), with a 2024 anticipated publication date.