05/2024
…legal discipline in its own right; however, as trusts can appear in other areas of law, including family law, corporate law, real estate, and estate planning and litigation, having a foundational knowledge of trusts can be of assistance to a lawyer no matter what area of law they practice. This course seeks to provide an understanding not only of what a trust is and how a trust is created, but also explore the legal relationship between the trust…
05/2022
…office of Davis LLP, now DLA Piper, from 2008 to 2016. He practises in the areas of corporate/commercial law, corporate finance structuring and securities law, including merchant banking and public and private company transactions. In June 2015, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from York University in recognition for his successful corporate legal career, community building and volunteerism. He is a member of the York University Board…
08/2020
…is to recognize a law student’s demonstrated commitment to advocacy in the areas of sexualized misconduct and/or domestic violence, including representing the interests of survivors of sexualized misconduct and/or domestic violence, and defending the rights of those alleged to have committed those forms of abuse. As a lawyer, Susan was a pioneer in developing the area of civil liability for sexual abuse in Canada. She was counsel on several landma…
08/2014
…Global Labour Research Centre since 2014. Professor Faraday teaches in the areas of social and economic justice, including labour and employment law, labour migration, human rights, appellate advocacy, ethical lawyering, clinical legal education, and social justice and political activism. She has published extensively in the areas of Charter rights, constitutional law, human rights and labour law. She is the co-author and co-editor of a book on eq…
09/2020
…is to recognize a law student’s demonstrated commitment to advocacy in the areas of sexualized misconduct and/or domestic violence, including representing the interests of survivors of sexualized misconduct and/or domestic violence, and defending the rights of those alleged to have committed those forms of abuse. As a lawyer, Susan was a pioneer in developing the area of civil liability for sexual abuse in Canada. She was counsel on several landma…
08/2014
…er University. His current academic interests span a wide range of subject areas — but notably, criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional and public law, emergency law, AI and the law, and public international law — viewed mostly through the lens of analytical legal theory. He is editor of Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law (with James Stribo…
06/2014
…raduates whose skill and talent in the practice of law, business, or other areas have made significant contributions to their field. Gold Key (One-to-Watch) This award is given to an individual who has graduated from the JD program within the last 10 years, whose endeavours in the practice of law, government service, business, legal academe, or other areas demonstrate exceptional promise. Gold Key (Public Sector) This award recognizes the achievem…
08/2022
…st year and the upper years of the JD curriculum, most particularly in the areas of legal process, contracts, equity and legal history, including legal biography. She comes to the law school from Torys LLP, where she was a senior associate in the litigation department. She has also served as the co-ordinator and lead interviewer for the oral history program at the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History since 2015. McMahon’s primary research in…
08/2014
…esearch of the Canadian Bar Association and has written extensively in his areas of expertise, including a monograph on Financing Consumer Sales and Product Defences in Canada and the US (Toronto: Carswell, 1984), a treatise on the Law of Electronic Funds Transfer (New York: Matthew Bender, 1992, kept current with annual updates (since 1997 with contributors) until 2020, a comparative law text on Bank Collections and Payment Transactions (Oxford:…
05/2012
…counsel to the Supreme Court of Canada. Her research interests are in the areas of Indigenous Law, Coastal Salish Law and Comparative Law. She has been a guest lecturer in Legal Process at the University of Victoria. The Faculty Appointments Committee has approved that an offer of appointment to the Osgoode full-time faculty be made to Professor Philip Girard. Professor Girard first taught at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law befor…