Type: Emeritus Faculty

Cameron, Jamie

Jamie Cameron, who is now Professor Emerita, was a member of the faculty (1984-2020) and a full professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her degrees are: B.A. (UBC 1975), LL.B. (McGill University 1978), LL.M. (Columbia University 1983), and MA (art history, York University 2024). Professor Cameron was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Hon. Justice Brian Dickson (1978-79) and was on the faculty at Cornell Law School before joining Osgoode in 1984.

Professor Cameron is one of Canada’s senior constitutional scholars, whose scholarship and teaching focused on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of expression and the press, the Supreme Court of Canada, criminal law, American constitutional law, and judicial biography. Her scholarship can be found at the Osgoode Digital Commons and on her SSRN page. Professor Cameron has been on the Board of Editors for Ontario Reports for over thirty years, was editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and edited or co-edited a dozen book collections. Over the years she chaired and co-chaired many conferences and events. Professor Cameron was appointed to two review boards, which exercise jurisdiction over mentally disordered criminal offenders under Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code (Ontario Review Board (2013-2022); Nunavut Review Board (2018-present)).

Professor Cameron was a longtime Director and Vice-President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, was a member of the Board of Directors for the BC Civil Liberties Association and is currently a member of CCLA’s National Council. She is on the Advisory Board and Academic Freedom Committee for the Centre for Free Expression (Toronto Metropolitan University). Professor Cameron represented the CCLA and the Centre for Free Expression in several Charter cases at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her cultural activities include the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Board of Trustees, 2004-2012, and vice-chair, 2011-13); Canada’s National Ballet School (Board of Directors, 2011-2014); Inuit Art Foundation (Board of Directors, 2016-2022); Art Canada Institute (Board of Directors, 2019-2024); and Artworks for Cancer (Board of Directors, 2021-present).

Monahan, Patrick J.

McDougall, Ian A.

Glasbeek, Harry J.

Evans, John M.

Cumming, Peter A.

Angus, William H.

Williams, Cynthia

Professor Cynthia Williams joined Osgoode Hall Law School on July 1, 2013 as the Osler Chair in Business Law, a position she also held from 2007 to 2009. Before coming to Osgoode, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law and, prior to that, she practised law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.

Professor Williams writes in the areas of securities law, corporate law, corporate responsibility, comparative corporate governance and regulatory theory, often in interdisciplinary collaborations with professors in anthropology, economic sociology, and organizational psychology.

Her book The Embedded Firm: Corporate Governance, Labor, And Finance Capitalism, co-edited with Osgoode Professor Peer Zumbansen, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press and was featured at the Society for Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference in 2012 at MIT.

Professor Williams’ work has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, the University of New South Wales Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Academy of Management Review, the Corporate Governance International Review, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others.

Professor Williams has lectured and taught in China, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, the UK and throughout Canada and the United States.

Professor Williams also engages in policy work through her board membership in the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, a think-tank of academics and financial market participants; the Climate Bonds Initiative, an NGO established to create a new asset class, Climate Bonds, in order to finance the transition to a low-carbon economy; and as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Finance Advisory Board.

Watson, Garry D.

Professor Garry Watson joined Osgoode’s faculty in 1966 and has been a Visiting Professor at universities in Canada, the United States, Israel and (his native) Australia. He taught Trial Practice and Class Actions. His teaching of these courses was been augmented by his experience in private practice with a Toronto law firm and his appearances before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of Professional Development at the firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Professor Watson research interests include civil procedure, class actions and civil justice reform. He is widely known for his civil procedure books: Watson & McGowan, Ontario Civil Practice (2 volumes), Holmested & Watson, Ontario Civil Procedure (6 volumes). His numerous papers and articles deal with various aspects of civil litigation and civil justice reform. His current research is focused on the operation of Canada’s class action legislation and the comparative study of similar regimes in other countries.

He was a member of the Ontario Civil Rules Committee (1983-2005), and continues to be a member of its research arm, the Rules Secretariat. He was also a member of New Brunswick’s Civil Procedure Advisory Committee as well as Manitoba’s Queen’s Bench Rules Revision Committee.

He is the founder and Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop held every summer since 1979. This is a NITA style program that brings 120 young lawyers into the law school for 8 days of trial advocacy training with a faculty of more than 60 lawyers and judges.

Professor Watson established the National Class Action Symposium (for the Osgoode Professional Development Program) and chairs the Planning Committee and the Symposium, which is held in Toronto each spring.

Vaver, David

David Vaver was a member of IP Osgoode and Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law in the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. He was previously a faculty member at Osgoode (1985-98), UBC (1978-85), and the University of Auckland (1972-78). He rejoined Osgoode in 2009.

Professor Vaver’s main field is intellectual property law and policy. Besides authoring Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks (2nd ed. 2011), Copyright Law (2000), and (as co-editor) Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law (2009), all published by Irwin Law, he has edited a five-volume compilation, Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law (Routledge, 2006). He founded the Intellectual Property Journal in 1984, from which he retired as editor-in-chief in 2016 but remains on the advisory board.

Professor Vaver is an associate member of the Chambers of Iain Purvis QC (11 South Square, Gray’s Inn), a former board member of the Intellectual Property Institute (London), and a former member of the UK government’s IP Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed in 2016 to the Order of Canada for his “leadership in intellectual property law as a scholar and mentor.”