News > Virtual learning tool co developed by osgoode professor expands access to experiential learning

E-learning tool co-developed by Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai expands access to experiential learning

…to teach many other aspects of law, she added. “It could work in different areas where the teacher is trying to achieve an experiential component,” she said. “Most of law is about the lived experience,” she added. “We’re trying to move away from a fact-pattern based exam experience to have the student deeply understand the material, define the problems and figure out what resources to use.” Ben-Ishai said the virtual learning tool does not make us…

Faculty and staff > Boisselle andree

Boisselle, Andrée

Andrée Boisselle’s research interests are in the areas of indigenous law, comparative and constitutional law, pluralism and postcolonial legal theory. She is currently completing her doctorate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral research on Stó:lõ constitutionalism and the Coast Salish legal tradition has been supported by scholarships from the Trudeau Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci…

Faculty and staff > Michaud suzanne

Michaud, Suzanne

…RBC Law). There I provided legal advice to RBC companies in the following areas: all registered plans (such as RRSP’s); estate administration, both domestic and foreign, for release of estate assets and collection of debt owed by the deceased; specific legal requirements related to new technology; succession issues including distribution of assets (such as through trusts, beneficiary designations, joint ownership, and court proceedings); elder la…

Faculty and staff > Wilson john j

Wilson, John J.

John practices public law in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office, chiefly in the areas of Crown liability, administrative law, constitutional law, regulatory law, and Indigenous law. He acts for public and private clients in administrative and civil proceedings, applications for judicial review, and appeals. He has appeared at all levels of the Ontario and Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Regulators, public bodies, and other public organ…

Faculty and staff > Patricia mcmahon

McMahon, Patricia

Professor Patricia McMahon’s areas of teaching and research are civil procedure, law and equity and legal history broadly defined. She is also the Director and Lead Interviewer of the Oral History Program at the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the Co-Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution. She joined the faculty in July 2022 after a number of years in private practice. Professor McMahon holds a BA in hist…

Faculty and staff > Craig carys j

Craig, Carys J.

…hing Award, Dr. Craig teaches JD, graduate and professional courses in the areas of intellectual property, copyright and trademark law, and legal theory. She researches and publishes widely on intellectual property law and policy, with an emphasis on authorship (drawing on critical and feminist theory), users’ rights and the public domain. She is the author of Copyright, Communication & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (2011),…

Faculty and staff > Williams cynthia

Williams, Cynthia

…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…