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Administrative Law

…d deal with the general public. At CLASP, we provide services on four main areas: Housing Rights Residential Landlord and Tenant disputes are largely governed by the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, and decided at the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). We assist tenants in rental housing with a range of legal issues including: Eviction Illegal lockouts Repair and maintenance issues Human Rights Harassment Illegal charges We do not provide services t…

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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…

Faculty and staff > Mykitiuk roxanne

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 > Tanguay renaud francois

Tanguay-Renaud, François

…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…

Courses and seminars > Canadian federalism

Canadian Federalism

…of the judicial interpretation of the division of powers, particularly in areas not covered in first year; and second, to provide a deeper understanding of our institutions of government and continuing issues of constitutional reform. Areas that my be covered include the impact of unwritten constitutional principles, the separation of powers and the respective roles of the Crown, Parliament and the legislatures, and the courts in ensuring respect…

Courses and seminars > Law social change torts and technology

Law & Social Change: Torts and Technology

Tort law is one of the law’s oldest areas of law, where one still encounters such Latin tags as “sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas” and “volenti non fit injuria,” where some cases printed in the casebooks are a century older than printed books. Can this area of law be of any relevance to the brave new world of large language models in the metaverse? Perhaps. In 2023, Epic Games, the studio that developed the enormously popular video game “Fortn…

Faculty and staff > Fitzgerald paul

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 > Patricia mcmahon

McMahon, Patricia

Professor Patricia McMahon’s areas of teaching and research are civil procedure, law and equity and legal history broadly defined. She is also the Director and Lead Interviewer of the Oral History Program at the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the Co-Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution. She joined the faculty in July 2022 after a number of years in private practice. Professor McMahon holds a BA in hist…

Faculty and staff > Craig carys j

Craig, Carys J.

…hing Award, Dr. Craig teaches JD, graduate and professional courses in the areas of intellectual property, copyright and trademark law, and legal theory. She researches and publishes widely on intellectual property law and policy, with an emphasis on authorship (drawing on critical and feminist theory), users’ rights and the public domain. She is the author of Copyright, Communication & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (2011),…

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CLASP legal clinic shines a light on injustice in Canada’s immigration detention system

…d at the hands of Canadian immigration authorities. CLASP is one of 17 clinical programs available to Osgoode students and exemplifies the law school’s leadership in experiential legal education in Canada. CLASP handles cases in the areas of immigration, criminal and administrative law, including refugee claims and PR applications, immigration detention hearings, summary conviction criminal charges, record suspensions, human rights cases and tenan…