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Mykitiuk, Roxanne

…Osgoode Hall Law School, where she engages in research and teaching in the areas of Disability Law, Health Law, Bioethics and Family Law. She is the founder and Director of the Disability Law Intensive clinical program and the Director of Osgoode’s part-time LLM program specializing in Health Law. She is a member of the core faculty in the graduate program in Critical Disability Studies at York University. From 2018-2021 Professor Mykitiuk was the…

Faculty and staff > Geva benjamin

Geva, Benjamin

…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:…

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…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…

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Fitzgerald, Paul

Mr. Fitzgerald is a leading practitioner in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and securities law with significant experience in a wide range of both public and private transactions, including public offerings, private placements, negotiated transactions, hostile take-over bids, shareholder activism and complex corporate reorganizations. Mr. Fitzgerald has extensive experience with large, multijurisdictional transactions and provides advice to…

Faculty and staff > Drake karen

Drake, Karen

…mber of the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation who researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian law as it affects Indigenous peoples, Anishinaabe constitutionalism, Indigenous pedagogy within legal education, property law, and dispute resolution including civil procedure and Indigenous dispute resolution. Professor Drake served as Osgoode’s Associate Dean (Students) throughout the pandemic, from July 2020 to June 2023. She joined the Osgoode faculty…

Faculty and staff > Haigh richard

Haigh, Richard

…de Constitutional Law, Public Law, and Equity and Trusts, particularly the areas of freedom of conscience and religion. His recent works include papers on the use of conscience and religion in legislative policies, whistleblowing, dialogue theory and freedom of expression’s relation to noise by-laws; he has also contributed a chapter to a book on legislating statutory interpretation, and a chapter to the casebook on public law (Emond, 3rd ed., 201…

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Finding an OPIR Placement

…es to organizations and individuals in need in Canada. PBSC is the only national law student program in Canada and the only national pro bono service organization anywhere in the world. Every law school in Canada has a chapter offering students experiences spanning a wide array of legal practice areas and types of legal work. By exposing law students to the value of pro bono service, PBSC aims to encourage the next generation of lawyers to make pr…

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Nadler, Jennifer

…dissertation was a study of the private law implications of the conceptions of freedom portrayed in the novels of Henry James. She publishes in the areas of private law, theoretical jurisprudence, and law and literature….

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Class of ’26 shaped by Osgoode’s holistic admissions policy

…d assisting those in need, I realized that my interests aligned within the areas of law that motivated me to pursue a career as a lawyer.” For her, she said, the deciding factor in choosing Osgoode was it’s unparalleled and wide-ranging clinical education program. “I found that Osgoode has a lot of experiential learning opportunities that provide wonderful hands-on experience to students, which is key when deciding to pursue a specialization,” she…

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Students in the Community

…s students a diversity of projects spanning a wide array of legal practice areas and types of legal work. By exposing law students to the value of pro bono service, PBSC aims to encourage the next generation of lawyers to make pro bono service an everyday part of their practice. IP Innovation Clinic The Innovation Clinic is a needs-based innovation-to-market intellectual property (IP) legal clinic operated in collaboration with Innovation York and…