The following is a historical individuals taught as appointed full-time faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School. To view our current faculty, visit the Osgoode Faculty page.
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Deans of Osgoode Hall Law School
| Name | Start | End | Degrees and Qualifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| George W. Adams | 1971 | 1978 | BA (McMaster), LLB (York), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| William H. Angus | 1971 | 1996 | BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Columbia), of the Bars of Alberta and Ontario |
| Philip Anisman | 1978 | 1985 | BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM, SJD Berkeley |
| Louise Arbour | 1975 | 1988 | BA, LLL (Montreal), of the Bars of Quebec and Ontario |
| E. Douglas Armour | 1889 | 1912 | QC |
| Mark G. Aron | 1968 | 1970 | BA (Trinity College, Connecticut), LLB (Harvard) |
| Harry W. Arthurs | 1961 | 2005 | OC, OO, BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard), FRSC, FBA |
| Ronald George Atkey | 1971 | 1975 | MP, BA, LLB (Western Ontario), LLM (Yale) |
| Joel Bakan | 1987 | 1992 | BA (Simon Fraser, Oxford), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Harvard) |
| Richard J. Balfour | 1978 | 1985 | AB (Princeton), BLitt (Oxford), JD (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John M. Barber | 1966 | 1974 | BSA (OAC), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Yale) |
| Daniel Jay Baum | 1969 | 1990 | BA, LLB (Cincinnati), LLM, JSD (New York) |
| Ian Baxter | 1952 | 1966 | MA, LLB (Aberdeen), of Lincoln’s Inn |
| Margaret Beare | 1995 | 2019 | BA, MA (Guelph), Diploma in Criminology (Cambridge), PhD (Columbia) |
| Stanley Beck | 1967 | 1991 | BA, LLB (British Columbia), LLM (Yale), of the Bar of British Columbia |
| Edward Belobaba | 1975 | 1987 | BA (Waterloo), LLB (Osgoode), BCL (Oxford), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Janine Benedet | 2000 | 2005 | LLB (British Columbia), LLM (Michigan), Bars of Ontario and British Columbia |
| John Blanchard | 1954 | 1989 | LLB (British Columbia), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of British Columbia |
| Stephen Borins | 1969 | 1975 | BA, LLB (Toronto), of Osgoode Hall |
| Samuel Bradford | 1913 | 1929 | BA, KC |
| William J. Braithwaite | 1978 | 1985 | BA (Windsor), LLB (Western), LLM (London), of the Bar of Ontario |
| W. Neil Brooks | 1974 | 2014 | BA (Windsor), LLB (Western), LLM (London), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Donald J. M. Brown | 1967 | 1968 | BA (Manitoba), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard) |
| Brian Bucknall | 1971 | 1977 | BA (McMaster), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Columbia), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Jamie Cameron | 1984 | 2019 | BA (British Columbia), LLB (McGill), LLM (Columbia), of the Bars of British Columbia and Ontario |
| Archie Campbell | 1977 | 1978 | LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Osgoode) |
| Jean-Gabriel Castel | 1959 | 1999 | O.C.,O.O., Officier de la Légion d’honneur, de l’Ordre National du Mérite et Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, Q.C., ,B.Sc. (Aix -Marseille), Lic. en Droit (Paris), J.D. (Michigan), S.J.D. ( Harvard), D. h.c. ( Aix-Marseille) , F.R.S.C., of the Bar of Ontario, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus. |
| Gordon Christie | 2001 | 2004 | BA (Princeton), MA (California), PhD (California), LLB (Victoria) |
| John E. Claydon | 1995 | 2005 | BA (Carleton), LLB (Queen’s), LLM (Virginia), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Mark Q. Connelly | 1974 | 1987 | BA (Toronto), JD (Columbia), of the Bars of Ontario, New York, and the District of Columbia |
| Geoff R. Conway | 1968 | 1971 | BComm (British Columbia), CA (Queen’s), lecturer in the Faculty of Administrative Studies, with cross-appointment in the Law School |
| Brenda J. Cossman | 1988 | 1999 | BA (Queen’s), LLB (Toronto), SJD (Toronto) |
| Irwin Cotler | 1970 | 1973 | BA, BCL (McGill), LLM (Yale), of the Bar of Quebec |
| Maurice Cullity | 1968 | 1984 | LLB (Western Australia), BCL (Oxford), of the Middle Temple, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
| Peter Cumming | 1968 | 1995 | QC, BA, LLB (Manitoba), LLM (Harvard), of the Bars of Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and Ontario |
| Derek Mendes Da Costa | 1965 | 1968 | LLB (London), LLM (Melbourne), of the Bar of Victoria, Australia |
| Signa Daum Shanks | 2014 | 2024 | BA (Hons) (Saskatchewan), MA (Western), LLB (Osgoode), LLM, (Toronto), PhD (Western), of the Bar of Ontario and the Indigenous Bar Association |
| John Grant Day | 1969 | 1971 | AB (Oberlin College), LLB (Western Reserve), Member of the Ohio Bar and the District of Columbia Bar |
| John Shirley Denison | 1911 | 1925 | KC |
| Michael M. Dennis | 1966 | 1968 | LLB (Osgoode), LLM (California) |
| Tim Edgar | 2011 | 2016 | BA LLB (UWO), LLM (Osgoode), PhD (Deakin) |
| Stanley E. Edwards | 1947 | 1949 | BA, LLB (Alberta), LLM (Harvard), of the Alberta Bar |
| S. Ronald Ellis | 1975 | 1985 | BA, LLB (Toronto) |
| D. Paul Emond | 1976 | 2014 | BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John M. Evans | 1975 | 1999 | BA, BCL (Oxford), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John D. Falconbridge | 1910 | 1954 | KC, MA, LLB (Toronto), of Osgoode Hall |
| Ivan Reid Feltham | 1961 1965 | 1968 1976 | BA, LLB (British Columbia), BCL (Oxford), of the Bar of British Columbia |
| Simon Fodden | 1969 | 2008 | AB (Princeton), LLB (Osgoode), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Arthur Lloyd Foote | 1964 | 1966 | BA, LLB (Dalhousie), BCL (Oxford), LLM (Michigan), of the Bar of Nova Scotia and of Osgoode Hall |
| Martin Friedland | 1961 | 1965 | BCom, LLB (Toronto), of Osgoode Hall |
| Judy Fudge | 1986 | 2007 | BA (McGill), MA (York), LLB (Osgoode), DPhil (Oxford) |
| Shelley A.M. Gavigan | 1986 | 2016 | BA (Sask), LLB (Sask), MA (Toronto), LLM (Osgoode), SJD (Toronto) of the Bars of Saskatchewan and Ontario |
| Joan Gilmour | 1990 | 2020 | BA, LLB (Toronto), JSM, JSD (Stanford), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Harry Glasbeek | 1972 | 2000 | BA, LLB (Melbourne), JD(Chicago), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
| Marc Gold | 1980 | 1994 | BA (McGill), LLB (British Columbia), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Alan Grant | 1971 | 1998 | LLB (London), of the Inner Temple and Bar of Ontario |
| Robert J. S. Gray | 1959 | 2000 | BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (California), of Osgoode Hall |
| Leslie Green | 1986 | 2010 | BA (Queen’s), MA, MPhil (Oxford), cross-appointed with the Department of Philosophy |
| Warren Grover | 1969 | 1977 | BA Sc, LLB (Toronto), LLM (California) |
| Colleen Hanycz | 2003 | 2009 | BA (Toronto), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Osgoode), PhD (Osgoode), Bar of Ontario |
| Paul Harbrecht | 1969 | 1971 | AB (Loyola, Chicago), LLB (Georgetown), SJD (Columbia), member of the Bars of the District of Columbia and of Michigan |
| Reuben A. Hasson | 1975 | 2003 | BA (Cape Town), LLB (London), LLM (Yale) |
| James Hathaway | 1984 | 1998 | LLB (Osgoode), LLM, JSD (Columbia), of the Bars of New Brunswick and Ontario |
| Douglas Hay | 1981 | 2015 | BA, MA (Toronto), PhD (Warwick), (cross-appointed with the Faculty of Arts) |
| Dennis Hefferon | 1959 | 1988 | BA (Toronto), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John Hogarth | 1968 | 1973 | BA, LLB (British Columbia), Dip Of Crim (Cambridge) |
| Peter W. Hogg | 1971 | 2004 | QC, LLB (New Zealand), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Monash), FRSC, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and Victoria, and of the Bar of Ontario |
| Anthony Hooper | 1970 | 1974 | MA, LLB (Cambridge), of the Inner Temple and the Bar of British Columbia |
| Newman Wright Hoyles | 1894 | 1923 | BA, LLD, KC |
| Shin Imai | 1996 | 2018 | BA (Yale), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Osgoode), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Terence Ison | 1980 | 1995 | LLB (London), LLM (Harvard), LLD (London), of the Middle Temple and of the Bars of British Columbia and Ontario |
| John M. Johnson | 1979 | 1980 | BA (Alberta), LLM (Alberta) |
| Tom Johnson | 1987 | 2016 | BA (Hons)(York), BCL (McGill), SJD (Wisconsin), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Jeffrey Jowell | 1968 | 1972 | BA, LLB (Cape Town), MA (Oxford), LLM (Harvard), of the Middle Temple, cross-appointment in the Faculty of Administrative Studies |
| John King | 1892 | 1916 | MA, QC |
| Paul Lamek | 1963 | 1967 | BA, BCL (Oxford), of Osgoode Hall |
| Bora Laskin | 1945 | 1949 | MA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard), of Osgoode Hall |
| Gerald Le Dain | 1967 | 1975 | QC, BCL (McGill), D de l’Univ (Lyon) of the Bar of Quebec, and of Osgoode Hall |
| H. Allan Borden Leal | 1950 | 1966 | QC, BA (McMaster), LLM (Harvard), LLD (McMaster), of Osgoode Hall |
| Sidney N. Lederman | 1971 | 1982 | BA, LLB (Toronto) |
| Peter Levinson | 1970 | 1971 | AB (Brandeis), LLB (Harvard) |
| Allen Linden | 1961 | 1978 | BA (Toronto), LLM (California), of Osgoode Hall |
| Edwin Long | 1916 | 1925 | KC |
| James Lorimer | 1968 | 1970 | BA (Manitoba), PhD (London), assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with cross-appointment in the Law School |
| Ronald St. John MacDonald | 1959 | 1968 | BA (St. Francis Xavier), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (London), LLM (Harvard |
| Mark MacGuigan | 1966 | 1967 | BA (St. Dunstan’s), MA, PhD (Toronto), LLM, SJD (Columbia) |
| Jeffrey MacIntosh | 1982 | 1983 | BS (M.I.T.), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard) |
| Catharine A. MacKinnon | 1988 | 1990 | BA (Smith), JD, PhD (Yale) |
| James MacPherson | 1987 | 1993 | BA (Acadia), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Cambridge), of the Bars of Ontario and Saskatchewan |
| Donald Alexander MacRae | 1925 | 1945 | BA (Dalhousie), MA, PhD (Cornell), of Osgoode Hall, Barrister-at-Law, member of the Nova Scotia Bar |
| Peter Maddaugh | 1969 | 1977 | BA (Queen’s), MA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard) |
| Michael Mandel | 1974 | 2013 | LLB (Osgoode), BCL (Oxford), of the Bar of Ontario |
| A.H. Marsh | 1889 | 1912 | BA, LLB, QC |
| Dianne Martin | 1989 | 2004 | BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (London), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Norman May | 1971 | 1976 | BA (McGill), MA (Yale), BCL (McGill), of the Bar of Quebec |
| John D. McCamus | 1971 | 2006 | BA (Western Ontario), MA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (London), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Ian McDougall | 1976 | 2008 | BA (Simon Fraser), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Kent McNeil | 1987 | 2016 | BA, LLB (Saskatchewan), DPhil (Oxford), of the Bar of Saskatchewan |
| Alan Mewett | 1965 | 1968 | LLB (Birmingham), BCL (Oxford), LLM (Michigan), SJD (Michigan), member of Gray’s Inn and Osgoode Hall |
| Johann W. Mohr | 1969 | 1989 | BSW, MSW (Toronto), PhD (Graz), cross-appointed with Faculty of Arts |
| Patrick J. Monahan | 1982 | 2013 | BA (Ottawa), MA (Carleton), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John Desmond Morton | 1952 | 1970 | BA, LLB (Trinity College, Dublin), of King’s Inn, Dublin |
| Mary Jane Mossman | 1977 | 2017 | BA (Hons) McGill, LLB Queen’s, LLM London, LLD Law Society of Upper Canada, of the Bars of New South Wales and Ontario |
| William D. Moull | 1980 | 1988 | LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| David Mundell | 1959 | 1969 | QC, BA, LLB (Saskatchewan), BCL (Oxford), of the Bar of Saskatchewan |
| Allan Myers | 1972 | 1974 | BA (Melbourne), LLB, BCL (Oxford), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
| William Neilson | 1966 | 1973 | BCom (Toronto), LLB (British Columbia), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of British Columbia |
| Graham Parker | 1965-1971 | 1973-1998 | LLB (Adelaide), LLM (Columbia), of the Bar of South Australia |
| Sidney Peck | 1966 | 1995 | BA, LLB (Toronto) |
| Andrew Petter | 1984 | 1986 | BA, LLB (Victoria), LLM (Cambridge), of the Bar of Saskatchewan |
| Marilyn L. Pilkington | 1980 | 2013 | BA (Alberta), LLB (Toronto), of the Bar of Ontario |
| John J. Quinn | 1982 | 1988 | BA (George Washington), JD (Indiana), LLM (Yale), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Iain D.C. Ramsay | 1988 | 2006 | LLB (Edinburgh), LLM (McGill) |
| William Albert Reeve | 1889 | 1894 | MA, QC |
| Benjamin J. Richardson | 2003 | 2010 | BA, LLB (Macquarie), PhD (ANU) |
| Neal Roberts | 1974 | 1986 | BA, MA, JD (California), of the Bar of California |
| John J. Robinette | 1929 | 1932 | BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode) |
| Christopher C. Robinson | 1912 | 1925 | BA, KC |
| R. L. Liora Salter | 1990 | 2016 | BA (Toronto), MA (Simon Fraser), FRSC |
| Joel Grant Sinclair | 1968 | 1974 | BCom (Manitoba), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Yale) |
| Brian Slattery | 1981 | 2017 | BA (Hons)(Loyola of Montreal), BCL (McGill), DPhil (Oxford), FRSC |
| Charles Ernest Smalley-Baker | 1949 | 1959 | QC, BA (Acadia), LLB (Harvard), MA (Oxford), LLM (Birmingham), of the Inner Temple, of Osgoode Hall, and the Bar of New Brunswick |
| Sidney Earle Smith | 1925 | 1929 | BA (King’s), MA (King’s), LLB (Dalhousie) |
| David Smout | 1949 | 1953 | MA, LLB (Cambridge), LLM (Birmingham), sometime Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England |
| Francis Snyder | 1971 | 1980 | BA (Yale), JD (Harvard), MA, PhD (Paris), of the Bar of Massachusetts, cross-appointed in the Faculty of Arts |
| Lorne Sossin | 1997 2010 | 2002 2018 | BA (McGill), MA (Exeter), PhD (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), LLM, JSD (Columbia), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Donald Spence | 1950 | 1985 | QC, MA(Toronto), LLM (London) |
| Wishart Flett Spence | 1931 | 1947 | BA (Toronto), LLM (Harvard) |
| James Stribopoulos | 2006 | 2013 | BA (York), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Columbia), JSD (Columbia) |
| Barry D. Stuart | 1970 | 1971 | BA (Bishop’s), LLB (Queen’s) |
| Katherine E. Swinton | 1977 | 1980 | BA (Alberta), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Yale) |
| Larry Taman | 1973 | 1983 | BA (Carleton), LLB (Osgoode), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Walter Tarnopolsky | 1967-1968 | 1972-1980 | BA (Saskatchewan), AM (Columbia), LLB (Saskatchewan), LLM (London), of the Bars of Saskatchewan and Ontario |
| Martin Teplitsky | 1975 | 1978 | LLB (Toronto), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Eric Tucker | 1981 | 2022 | BA (Columbia), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Yale) |
| David Vaver | 1985-1998 | 2009-2024 | CM, BA, LLB (Hons) (Auckland), JD (Chicago), MA (Oxon), FRSC, of the New Zealand bar |
| Edward J. Waitzer | 2007 | 2020 | LLB, LLM (Toronto), of the Bars of Ontario and New York |
| Garry Watson | 1966 | 2009 | LLB (Melbourne), LLM (Yale) |
| John F. W. Weatherill | 1960 | 1963 | BA, LLB (Toronto), LLM (Harvard) |
| Paul Weiler | 1965 | 1973 | MA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard) |
| David Weisstub | 1970 | 1992 | BA (Columbia), MA (Toronto), JD (Yale), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Cynthia Williams | 2013 | 2020 | BA in Neurobiology (University of California at Berkeley), JD cum laude and Order of the Coif (New York University) |
| G. Antoinette (Toni) Williams | 1988 | 2006 | BA (Oxford), PhD (Newcastle) |
| Neil J. Williams | 1972 | 1979 | LLB (Melbourne), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria |
| Sharon Williams | 1977 | 2013 | LLB (Exeter), LLM, DJur (Osgoode), FRSC, of the Bar of Ontario |
| John Willis | 1944 | 1949 | BA (Oxon), member of Nova Scotia Bar |
| Hall T. Wilson | 1970 | 2001 | AB (Tufts), MA, PhD (Rutgers), cross-appointed with the Faculty of Administrative Studies |
| Stepan Wood | 1997 | 2017 | BA (York), LLB (Osgoode), SJD (Harvard), of the Bar of New York |
| Cecil Augustus Wright | 1927 | 1949 | BA (Western Ontario), SJD (Harvard), of Osgoode Hall, Barrister-at-Law |
| Robert J. Wright | 1973 | 1978 | BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Alan N. Young | 1986 | 2017 | BA (York), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Timothy Youdan | 1984 | 1994 | BA, MA (Cambridge), LLM (Toronto), Barrister of Gray’s Inn, and of the Bar of Ontario |
| J. McGregor Young | 1894 | 1914 | MA, KC |
| Frederick H. Zemans | 1971 | 2003 | BA, LLB (Toronto), of the Bar of Ontario |
| Jacob S. Ziegel | 1970 | 1974 | LLB, LLM, PhD (London), Member of the Bars of England and of British Columbia |
| Peer Zumbansen | 2004 | 2020 | PhD (Frankfurt), LLM (Harvard), Licence en droit [avec mention] (University of Paris-X-Nanterre) |