06/2025
…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…
08/2014
…ocial 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 equality rights under the Charter: Making Equality Rights Real: Securing Substantive Equality Under the Charter (Irwin Law, 2006), the co-author of a book on equality rights under Ontario’s Human Rights Code: Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario (Canada Law…
08/2014
…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…
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…
06/2018
…ulty of Law, for which he received a SSHRC ‘CGS’ Doctoral Scholarship. His areas of interest broadly relate to law, political economy and development. He researches the regulation of labour in colonial and settler colonial contexts, including temporary labour migration in Canada. He also has interests in popular legal education in social movements, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and visual legal studies — among other areas. His research projects h…
08/2014
…cal Approaches to Law series. Professor Buchanan has taught courses in the areas of: Globalization and Law, Law and Social Change, Trade, Human Rights and Development, Law and Film. In the Osgoode Graduate Program, she has taught the Legal Research seminar and convened the Study Group on Law in a Global Context. Professor Buchanan has supervised many LLM and doctoral students in the areas of law and development, legal theory, legal sociology, or v…
06/2025
…opics. Media coverage of current developments and case studies will be introduced to enrich class discussions. Guest speakers will include leading experts in the field. While students with some background in substantive areas are welcome, no prior experience in these areas is required. Of course it goes without saying that a keen enthusiasm to learn about IP issues and participation in the course are encouraged by the instructors….
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…