Type: Staff
Fritsch, Ryan
Ryan Fritsch is legal counsel with the Law Commission of Ontario. He leads law reform projects examining AI in Ontario’s Criminal Justice System; Modernizing Consumer Protection Law in the Digital Marketplace; and recently published the “Last Stages of Life for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples: Preliminary Recommendations for Health Law Reform”. Prior to joining the LCO Ryan was legal counsel to the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office, lead Legal Aid Ontario’s Mental Health Strategy, and championed the protection of personal health information in Ontario’s Police Record Checks Reform Act. Ryan is a frequent lecturer and taught courses on mental health and disability law at UWindsor Law (2011-2019), the Osgoode Professional LLM in Health Law (2021) and as Acting Director of the Disability Intensive Program at Osgoode Hall (2022-2023). In the fall of 2024 Ryan commenced PhD studies at Osgoode Hall.
Chau, Andrea
Bates, Lauren
Tam, Michael
Azizi, Nadia
Thomas, Aneurin
Moore, Lisa
Wang, Sharon
Sharon Wang joined the Law Library in 2006 as a Reference Librarian and became an adjunct faculty of the law school since 2008.
Prior to joining Osgoode, she worked at McGill University libraries’ Government Document Department, spent one summer at the Library of Parliament, and held various part-time positions at McGill Law Library.
Research Interests
Foreign, comparative, and international legal research methodology, copyright, Chinese law and legal research, artificial intelligence and legal education
Publications
- “Dutch Gateway to International Law and My Gateway to International Law Librarianship” forthcoming, International Journal of Legal Information.
- “Book review: Freedom of Information: The Law, the Practice and the Ideal”37 Canadian Law Library Review (2012) 29.
- “Book review: Peace and Justice at the International Criminal Court” 36Canadian Law Library Review (2011) 82.
- “Book review: the Idea of Authorship in Copyright”, 33 Canadian Law Library Review (2008) 462.
- “Book review: Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Access to information and privacy”, 32 Can. Law Library Rev., (2007) 84.
- “From Law Student to Law Librarian: Here I Am!” in 31 Can. Law Library Rev., (2006) 72.
- International Copyright and Developing Countries: the Impact of the TRIPs Agreement, LL.M thesis, Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University.
Courses
- Legal Research and Writing for International Graduate Students
- Foreign, comparative and international legal research