10/2024
…fect of narrative on judicial attention, understanding, and judging. These areas are not quite silos, but they have not yet coalesced into coherence. This course will familiarize you with these areas of thought, using an excellent recent American text: Linda L. Berger and Kathryn Stanchi, Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science (Routledge, 2018). It is an operating manual to the judicial mind and ground-breaking. I would supplement…
11/2022
…evelopment in the mineral-rich James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario. The area is also believed to hold vast deposits of chromite, copper and platinum. But the wetlands are a massive carbon store that have been referred to as “the world’s lungs.” The project would include the construction of an estimated $1.6 billion, 450-kilometre, all-season road through First Nations territory, including boreal forest and muskeg. “Various governments have hitc…
02/2018
…rently a PhD student at the Open University of Tanzania researching in the area of Restorative Justice. The title of her PhD research is “The Applicability of Restorative Justice Practices in the Tanzanian Criminal Justice System.” She has worked as a Legal Officer with the National Environment Management Council and the National Organization for Legal Assistance. In addition to that she has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Ref…
08/2023
Al Hounsell teaches in the area of legal service design, innovation and legal technology. He is an innovation director and senior lawyer responsible for leading strategic innovation, legal service design and the innovation solutions development team at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Mr. Hounsell works at the intersection of law and innovation, directing strategic and legal advice to clients and lawyers in matters such as: the drafting and auto…
08/2014
…onally and internationally recognized as an expert in each of her research areas. She has been consulted by private actors, governments and self-regulatory institutions, and served as a Scholar in Residence with the Law Commission of Ontario. Her work has been cited by every level of Canadian court and she has given expert testimony to Canadian and American courts. Professor Ben-Ishai’s research has been consistently funded by research grants, inc…
08/2014
…ent of international law in this context. He will be pursuing this research as a Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in International Area Studies at Yale University in 2021-22….
01/2023
…d with his formerly enslaved parents from Maryland to the Windsor, Ontario area. Because no lawyer would hire him as an articling student for more than a decade, he was forced to obtain special admission through provincial legislation. His call to the bar in 1886 came over the repeated protests of the Law Society. Because memories had faded of Robert Sutherland’s historic first, Delos Davis believed he was the first. The racist reception he receiv…
07/2014
…t resolution workshops and coaching sessions are not limited to these five areas, and are available for any conflict area. Please contact us directly so that our trained student mediators can determine is we are able to assist you. Family Conflict We mediate family conflicts involving inter-generational issues, disciplinary issues, and disagreements between family members. We conduct mediations for parties to develop parenting plans. We respect th…
12/2023
…ed expert in the field of Law and Neuroscience. We understand this subject area broadly as the study of the interplay of neuroscience with law and legal order, including in terms of: its connections with the study of mind, epistemology, language, and morality with a view to increasing our understanding and/or providing a critique of legal ordering; its impact on the explanation and justification of basic legal concepts, assumptions, institutions,…
10/2022
…clinical opportunities available for students to immerse themselves in an area of law that interests them,” said Del Col. “It’s not only an opportunity to develop skills for their future careers, but also an opportunity to think critically about the work they’ve done and reflect on how it links to ethical practice and the larger roles of lawyers in society.” Osgoode’s clinical education programs represent only one aspect of its rich experiential…