Jacqueline King is a senior partner with Levitt Sheikh LLP. She is certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Ontario, Jacquie has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal; the Courts of Appeal in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Trial Courts in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. A frequent speaker on legal topics ranging from employment to commercial litigation and evidence and significant involvement in the legal community, having acted as Chair of the Judicial Issues subcommittee of the Canadian Bar Association and the liaison committee between the Supreme Court of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Author of “25 Rules for Success, and 10 Tips to Enjoy the Practice of Law” – Thomson Reuters and co-author of “The Trial Book” – Thomson Reuters.
Jacquie has an AV Preeminent rating with Martindale Hubbell.
Justice Peter Fraser was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 2020 and presides in Toronto. Prior to being appointed, he was an Assistant Crown Attorney in Scarborough, where he prosecuted a wide range of criminal matters, including firearms offences, sexual assaults, homicides, dangerous offender proceedings, and large-scale project cases. He had carriage of numerous jury trials in the Superior Court of Justice and appeals before the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Justice Fraser served on the board of directors for Turning Point Youth Services and as a volunteer hockey coach for many years. He has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School since 2020.
Dena Bonnet has been crown counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal since 2008. Dena regularly appears at the Court of Appeal and her litigation practice includes many Ontario Review Board appeals, and other Part XX.1 issues, such as NCR appeals, high-risk accused designations, and fitness issues. Dena is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and is co-editor of the upcoming Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law (LexisNexis, 2024).
Lawrence is a Corporate & Regulatory Lawyer with 10 plus years of experience. He has worked at global financial institutions and is currently a Managing Product Counsel for a global consumer lending & payments financial technology company. Outside of work, he volunteers his time coaching youth at local Toronto basketball club and is a board member at the Albion Neighbourhood Services, and is an aspiring welder.
Called to the bar in 1990. Senior Family Counsel-Legal Aid Ontario. Winter of University of Windsor Faculty of Law Distinguished Alumni Award in 2021 for work with marginalized communities to ensure access to justice. Specialist in parents and caregiver representation in child protection. Agent for the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee in child protection.
Petra Molnar is the Associate Director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Centre for Refugee Studies, where the runs the Migration and Technology Monitor Project. She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University and her first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is coming out in the spring of 2024 with the New Press. Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist trying to understand how new technologies are changing the way people cross borders.
Rhonda Ferguson is a socio-legal scholar who has focused her research on economic, social, and cultural rights. She has a PhD in international human rights law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe (the National University of Ireland Galway), where her doctoral work explored the relationship between right to food obligations and international trade rules. As a postdoctoral fellow with Food Secure Canada and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, she has worked on projects and published research related to national and rural food security, migration in transit countries, and Canada’s arms trade. She is currently living in Unama’ki, Land of the Fog (Cape Breton), researching at the intersection of small-scale agriculture for food and fibre, rural livelihoods, and material culture.
Emanuel Tucsa is a scholar of the legal profession. His work focuses on legal ethics in Canada and the United States. He earned his PhD and LLM in legal ethics from Osgoode Hall Law School, writing about the role of lawyers in knowledge production and applying his model to the problem of client perjury. Emanuel has published in the field of jurisprudence.
Emanuel’s research and teaching emphasize professional formation and skills development. He is a member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics and has given numerous presentations about legal ethics and legal education at Canadian and international conferences. In addition to his research and teaching on the legal profession, Emanuel also teaches Foundations of Canadian Law, as well as Public & Constitutional Law at Osgoode Professional Development.
Emanuel has taught contract law, legal research, and the sociology of law in undergraduate and college programs in the legal field at York University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Seneca College. In 2022, Emanuel won a teaching excellence award for his work in the Professional LLM at Osgoode Professional Development.
James W. Campbell (BA, LLM) is currently a Presiding Member of the Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario. He was previously a Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 2016-2023, and a Coordinating Member from 2019–2022. He first practised law as a solicitor with the international law firm Baker and McKenzie in Hong Kong, and was later called to the Bar and practised law as a barrister focusing on commercial law and criminal law.
While he was a barrister, he gave lectures on a wide range of areas of the law, including the law of evidence, bankruptcy law, land titles law, estates law, and commercial law to top tier law firms. He also taught civil procedure law at the University of Hong Kong and e-commerce law at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was appointed as Chair of the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings) in 2010 by the Hong Kong Government.
He holds a BA from the University of Toronto, where he studied history and philosophy, and an LLM from the University of Hong Kong. He is admitted to practice law in Ontario, Hong Kong (2000–2012), and England and Wales. James is a native English speaker, and is proficient in speaking, reading and writing Mandarin Chinese. He loves classical music, and is proficient in piano playing and composition.
Adriel Weaver is a public law litigator at Goldblatt Partners, where her clients include criminal accused, prisoners, immigration detainees, constitutional and human rights claimants, and community and public interest organizations. She also has a growing labour law practice, representing unions and professional associations in the education and health care sectors. Since 2016, Adriel has been an adjunct professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies where she has taught courses ranging from Indigenous Law to National Security and Criminal Justice. She serves as Chair of the Board of PASAN, and as a member of the Board and Chair of the Law Program Committee of LEAF.