11/2019
…ities in order to contribute to climate change mitigation including in the areas of transportation, active transit, buildings, land use planning, energy provision, the protection of natural resources and financing. All teams participated between noon and 5 pm ET at a minimum, with many teams working longer days. At 12:30 pm ET, Dr. Dianne Saxe, former Environment Commissioner for Ontario, gave an address on Municipalities and Climate Change at Osg…
08/2014
…onally and internationally recognized as an expert in each of her research areas. She has been consulted by private actors, governments and self-regulatory institutions, and served as a Scholar in Residence with the Law Commission of Ontario. Her work has been cited by every level of Canadian court and she has given expert testimony to Canadian and American courts. Professor Ben-Ishai’s research has been consistently funded by research grants, inc…
06/2018
Professor Adam Parachin teaches and researches in the areas of charity, trust, property and personal income tax law. His research specialization in charity law is concerned with the various ways the law defines and celebrates charity – defined as “doing good by others”. His publications in the field are generally concerned with three questions raised this formulation of charity: What constitutes “doing good”? Who qualifies as an “other”? How and…
02/2016
…the Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of Canada. His areas of research and teaching specialization are law and religion, criminal and constitutional law and theory, and the law of evidence. He has published broadly in these fields and his work has appeared in leading legal and interdisciplinary journals and edited collections. He is the author of Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism (Univer…
08/2014
…November 2017 to May 2019 when she was appointed Chief Law Librarian. Her areas of interest and specialization include law librarianship; information technology and its application to the delivery of information services; legal research methods; women’s studies; foreign, comparative and international law. She teaches library research in the first-year Legal Process course and an upper year seminar Foreign, Comparative and International Law Legal…
08/2014
…dian Common Law LLM degree program. He has researched and published in the areas of constitutional law, multiculturalism, law and religion, disability rights, national security and access to justice. He teaches constitutional law, human rights, legal ethics, and appellate advocacy. Previously, he sat as Vice-chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (2008-2011). He maintains a varied public and private law practice, appearing before administra…
08/2023
…ell-suited to the teaching of legal drafting in a wide variety of practice areas. As the principal legal counsel for York University, Christine provides legal guidance and counsel in executive and policy decision-making and serves as a member of the executive leadership group. She provides strategic leadership in all matters with legal implications for the University. Working with multiple stakeholders and numerous agendas on complex matters, she…
09/2023
…justice. He also advises NGOs and international organizations within these areas. James has appeared at all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada and multiple provincial Courts of Appeal. He is President of Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL). James holds a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he grad…
03/2023
…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…
08/2014
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…