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.

Zemans, Frederick H.

Frederick H. Zemans is the founding Director of Parkdale Community Legal Services – Ontario’s first community-based legal aid clinic that was established in 1971 – and of Osgoode’s Intensive Program in Poverty Law.

He was the Director of Clinical Education at Osgoode for many years and was one of the original faculty teaching in Osgoode’s undergraduate and graduate programs in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Professor Zemans’ publications have focused primarily on the Canadian legal profession, access to justice, legal services for low-income persons, and alternative dispute resolution and quality assurance of state-funded legal services.   In recent years, he co-authored:  From Crisis to Reform:  A  New Legal Aid Plan for Ontario; Access to Justice for a New Century – The Way Forward; The Evaluation of the  Mandatory Mediation Pilot Project in Ottawa and Toronto; The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiations (Emond Montgomery: 2007) and  An Evaluation of the Pilot Project of Three Criminal Law Offices (Legal Aid  Ontario: 2008).

Professor Zemans has been a Butterworth’s Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, University of London, and a visitor at Kobe University Law Department and the University of California at Los Angeles.  He served for many years as Chair of boards of inquiry for the Ontario Human Rights Commission and, in recent years, as a mediator and facilitator in private and public disputes.

Young, Alan N.

Alan Young is the Co-Founder and former Director of Osgoode’s Innocence Project, which is a clinical program that guides JD students through the process of investigating suspected cases of wrongful conviction and imprisonment. He also maintains a small practice specializing in criminal law and procedure that is primarily devoted to challenging state authority to criminalize consensual activity.

He has brought constitutional challenges to our gambling, obscenity, bawdy-house and drug laws, and for nearly two decades has provided free legal services to those whose alternative lifestyles have brought them into conflict with the law.  He has represented countless numbers of people suffering from AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis who were charged after using marijuana for medicinal purposes, and as a result of these cases, the Federal Government was compelled to create a regulatory program authorizing the use of medical marijuana.  In addition to his work in the area of consensual crime, Professor Young has also provided free legal services to victims of violent crime and to individuals attempting to sue the government for malicious prosecution.

Canadian Lawyer magazine has recognized the contributions Professor Young has made to the law, and named him one of the “Top 25 Most Influential” in the justice system and legal profession in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. He is the author of Justice Defiled: Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers and Lawyers (Toronto: Key Porter, 2003).

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.