08/2014
…of Osgoode’s LLM Program in Bankruptcy and Insolvency. Professor Johnson’s areas of teaching included contract law, commercial law (secured transactions, bankruptcy and insolvency, capital market regulation, and international business transactions), international development, and project finance. He was a recipient of the Osgoode Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Johnson has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant to the World Bank and…
08/2014
Professor Shelley Kierstead’s research interests lie in the areas of family law, access to justice, and dispute resolution. She has also conducted research in the conflict of laws area, completing a Master of Laws degree focusing on this topic at the University of Toronto 1993. Professor Kierstead first taught Legal Research and Writing (LRW) at Osgoode in 1993, and became Director of the LRW program at Osgoode in 2002. In 2005, she completed a d…
07/2024
…Anum Malik is Review Counsel for the Administrative Law Division at Community & Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP). Since being called the Bar in 2013, she has worked almost exclusively with community legal clinics, in the areas of administrative law and employment law. Anum is also on the Board of Directors of a community agency in Scarborough….
06/2014
…yers. The OPIR creates opportunities to expand access to justice, identify areas of interest, gain practical skills, meet mentors and potential employers, and generally experience the practice of law. Learn more about possible placements › Criteria: Public Interest, Law-Related, Uncompensated Your work in fulfillment of the OPIR must be: In the public interest. It must facilitate access to justice, seek substantive law reform, or provide services…
06/2014
…h year, Osgoode offers more than 150 courses and seminars from traditional areas to emerging legal fields. In a typical term, upper-year students take four or five courses and/or seminars valued at three or four credits each. In addition to the degree requirements, students must ensure that they: Take a minimum of 60 credits over 2nd and 3rd year Enrol in no fewer than 13 and no more than 17 credits each semester Select not more than two seminar c…
09/2024
…) students who want to gain more in-depth knowledge and skills in specific areas of legal practice. Designed to complement the foundational knowledge provided by the core JD curriculum, Professional Skills Micro-Courses give students a head start on mastering the practical decisions and inevitable challenges – from managing finances to building relationships with clients – that are part of any legal career. Open to students in their second and thi…
08/2014
…ok Native Legal Services in Moosonee and later had his own practice in the areas of human rights, refugee law and indigenous rights. He joined the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General in 1989 to work on the development of Alternative Dispute Resolution programs and to initiate justice projects in indigenous communities. He was appointed to faculty at Osgoode in 1996 and is currently a director of the Justice and Corporate Accountability Projec…
04/2015
…programs, participate in research projects, deliver public and faculty lectures, and assist with institutional projects in their areas of expertise and interest. …
01/2021
…rom the Anglo-American legal tradition, and of works on topics relating to areas of research relevant to Osgoode faculty, as enumerated in the Library’s general Collection Development Policy. iv. Civil law texts, in French or English Acquisition is automatic if published in Canada (Quebec) Texts from the outside Canada are considered for inclusion on the grounds of provenance, association or other special relevance. i. Bibliothèque du Parlement (s…
01/2017
…School for many years, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Berkeley, NYU, Texas, and University of Chicago law schools. He writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy….