Faculty and staff > Wiens al

Wiens, Al

Al practices in the areas of corporate and securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising companies with respect to securities regulatory compliance matters. He also acts on matters related to contested shareholder meetings. Al articled at a major energy corporation headquartered in Toronto, later joining the corporate finance department where he gained extensive experience drafting and nego…

Faculty and staff > Boisselle andree

Boisselle, Andrée

Andrée Boisselle’s research interests are in the areas of indigenous law, comparative and constitutional law, pluralism and postcolonial legal theory. She is currently completing her doctorate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral research on Stó:lõ constitutionalism and the Coast Salish legal tradition has been supported by scholarships from the Trudeau Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci…

News > Ip innovation clinic to benefit from 300000 ontario grant

IP Innovation Clinic to benefit from $300,000 Ontario grant

…earch and Innovation (OVPRI). It will target researchers especially in the areas of artificial intelligence, automotive and medical technology. The IP Innovation Clinic operates in collaboration with Innovation York, which also supports researchers. The Osgoode student volunteers who staff the clinic, known as Clinic Fellows, are supervised by lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Bereskin & Parr LLP and OWN Innovation. Guided by their la…

Programs > Juris doctor > Jd academic program > Degree requirements > About the osgoode public interest requirement opir > Host a student become an opir partner

Host a Student: Become an OPIR Partner

Osgoode welcomes enquiries from members of the bar who are interested in facilitating a student placement and becoming Public Interest Partners. The Osgoode Public Interest Requirement (OPIR) involves 40 hours of uncompensated, law-related public interest work. Taking on an Osgoode student completing their OPIR is an opportunity to benefit from the work of talented students, participate in the practical legal education of the next generation of l…

News > Osgoode hall chief law librarian named as one of canadas top 100 most powerful women for 2022

Osgoode Hall chief law librarian named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women for 2022

…s at public and academic libraries in Canada, Nigeria and The Bahamas. Her areas of specialization include law librarianship, information technology and its application to information services, legal research methods, women’s studies, and foreign, comparative and international law. She teaches library research in the first-year Legal Process course at Osgoode and in a number of upper-year and graduate courses. The Women’s Executive Network, also k…

Faculty and staff > Lisa dufraimont

Dufraimont, Lisa

…e rank of Professor in July 2022. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of criminal law and procedure and evidence. Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Dufraimont held a faculty position at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law, where she began teaching as an Assistant Professor in 2006, became an Associate Professor in 2012, and served as Acting Associate Dean (Academic) for the first half of 2015. She earned her JD from the University o…

News > Carys craig appointed director of ip osgoode

Professor Carys Craig appointed director of IP Osgoode

…Teaching Award, Craig teaches JD, graduate and professional courses in the areas of intellectual property, copyright and trademark law and legal theory. She is the academic director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law (with co-director Martin Kratz), and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. From 2014-17, she was Osgoode’s associate dean of research and institutional relations. In 2…

Programs > Juris doctor > Your flexible jd journey > Joint and combined programs > Jd ma philosophy

Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in Philosophy

…ideal for students planning to pursue further post-graduate study, certain areas of legal practice or an academic career. The Program Students in the joint program spend their first year in the JD Program. In the second year students are registered for three terms in the MA Philosophy Program. In third and fourth year, students enrol in JD courses plus one additional philosophy course. Students are also required to complete a major supervised rese…

News > Professor kate glover berger to join osgoode faculty on july 1

Professor Kate Glover Berger to join Osgoode faculty July 1

…ective July 1, 2020. Professor Glover Berger teaches and researches in the areas of administrative law and public law, with a focus on the nature, design, operation, and oversight of the administrative state. She has a BA in Philosophy from McGill University, an LLB from Schulich School of Law (Dalhousie), an LLM from University of Cambridge, and a DCL from McGill University. Before joining Osgoode, she was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of…

News > Justice studies center of the americas elects osgoode professor vice president for the period 2023 2024

Justice Studies Center of the Americas elects Professor Ben Berger vice-president

…ents) from 2015-2018 and in 2020 was elected as a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He was elected to College Council in 2022. Berger has published widely in his areas of research and teaching expertise, including law and religion, criminal and constitutional law and theory and the law of evidence….