Signa A. Daum Shanks, who was born and raised in Saskatchewan, joined Osgoode’s full-time faculty on July 1, 2014 from the University of Saskatchewan College of Law where she had been an Assistant Professor since 2009 and had taught Torts, Law and Economics, Aboriginal Self-government, Canadian Legal History, and the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Rights Moot. At Osgoode, she teaches Torts, Law and Economics, Game Theory and the Law (via Monash University Law School), and Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. She has taught at the summer program hosted at the Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre, and she is an instructor in the law program at Nunavut Arctic College. Professor Daum Shanks was Osgoode’s inaugural Director of Indigenous Outreach from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to working in law schools, Professor Daum Shanks was on the faculty at the University of Alberta’s School of Native Studies and had regularly taught at the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Native Studies and First Nations University of Canada. She also previously worked with Ontario’s Office of the Attorney General (Criminal Appeals Division), Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (formerly DIAND), the federal Department of Justice, and the Toronto office of Heenan Blaikie.
Professor Neil Brooks taught tax law and policy at Osgoode Hall Law School for over 35 years. His research interests include tax law and policy, corporate and international tax, and financing the welfare state. He published extensively on income tax issues and was been the editor of Canadian Taxation, Osgoode Hall Law Journal and the Canadian Tax Journal. He co-authored The Trouble with Billionaires (2010) with Linda McQuaig. He has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to several departments in the government of Canada, and to the governments of New Zealand, Australia and several Canadian provinces. He was Co-Vice Chair of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission and has been on several advisory committees for the Auditor-General of Canada and Revenue Canada. In 2002 he was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teacher’s Award for Academic Excellence. He is a frequent speaker and public commentator on current public finance issues. Over the past few years he has participated in capacity-building projects relating to taxation in a number of low-income countries including Lithuania, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Botswana.