The Codification of Judicial Jurisdiction in Ontario

This project is being undertaken by Professor Janet Walker, the Osgoode Hall Law School LCO Scholar in Residence, in association with the LCO and is directed at the improvement of the capacity of the judicial system to address cross-border litigation.  As Professor Walker says, the “uncertainties in the law undermine the capacity of the judicial system to provide access to justice and the commercial infrastructure needed to support the interests of person in Ontario operating in a globalized economy”.  Her project with the LCO will consider whether Ontario should enact the Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act, perhaps modified to reflect the changes that have occurred in the law and practice of cross-border litigation in the fifteen or so years since it was first enacted.  It may also look at the use of technology in transferring matters to a court in a reciprocating jurisdiction. 

Professor Walker has gathered a “Private International Law Working Group” to assist her with this project, composed of experts in the area from law faculties across Canada.


Vaughan Black (Dalhousie University)


 Joost Blom (University of British Columbia)                                         
Joost Blom, LLB (UBC), BCL (Oxford), LLM (Harvard)
Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia

Professor Blom joined the UBC Law Faculty in 1972, and was Dean from 1997 to 2003. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Victoria (part-time, 1979-80) and Osgoode Hall Law School (1981), and was Canadian Studies Visiting Fellow at the University of Trier, Germany (1996). His ongoing teaching subjects are conflict of laws, contracts, torts, and intellectual property. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, mostly in conflict of laws, contracts, and torts.

 



Jean-Gabriel Castel (Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)


Elizabeth Edinger (University of British Columbia)
Elizabeth Edinger B.A. (UBC) 1964; LL.B. (UBC) 1967; B.C.L. (Oxford) 1977
Associate Professor

 

 

 

 

 




Gerald Goldstein (Université de Montréal, Faculté de droit)
Gerald Goldstein, LLM (McGill), DCL (Sorbonne)
Professor, University of Montréal

Professor Goldstein teaches Civil law, Comparative law and Conflict of Laws. He has lectured at various universities, including McGill, Sherbrooke, Ottawa and the Hague Academy of International Law, and has authored several books (Traité de droit international privé, 2 volumes, 1998, 2003), more than 50 articles, and various reports for the Ministry of Justice, Canada (Habitual residence, 2005). He has been a Canadian reporter in Cameroun, Egypt and France and a guest speaker in Viet Nam and France.                                



Tanya Monestier (Queen’s University)
Tanya Monestier, LLB, LLM
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University

Professor Monestier teaches Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure and Commercial Law.  After graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School as the Gold Medallist, Tanya worked as a law clerk to Justice Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court of Canada.  She then obtained her LL.M. degree with first class honours from Cambridge University, where she was both a Commonwealth Scholar and a Mackenzie King Travelling Scholar.  Prior to her position at Queen’s, she worked as an attorney at a pharmaceutical company in the United States, specializing in area of products liability litigation.

 

Stephen G.A. Pitel (The University of Western Ontario)
Stephen Pitel, BA (Carleton) 1989, LLB (Dalhousie) 1992, LLM (Cambridge) 1995, PhD (Cambridge) 2002, called to the Bar of Ontario 1994.
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.

Professor Pitel’s teaching and research is focused on international commercial litigation, civil procedure, torts, unjust enrichment and legal ethics.  His articles on private international law have been published in the Canadian Bar Review, Canadian Business Law Journal, Journal of Private International Law and Advocates’ Quarterly.  He has co-authored, edited or co-edited six books since 2004 including Litigating Conspiracy: An Analysis of Competition Class Actions and Emerging Issues in Tort Law.



Nicholas S. Rafferty (University of Calgary) 
Nicholas Rafferty, M.A., LL.B., LL.M.
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Member of the Alberta Bar

Nick Rafferty obtained his law degree and a master’s degree in law from Jesus College, Cambridge, and a further master’s degree from the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Manitoba from 1975-77 and has been at the University of Calgary since that time. He has taught Conflict of Laws from the start of his teaching career and is the author of numerous articles on the subject. He is also the general editor of, and contributor to, Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases Text and Materials, 2nd ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2003), the third edition of which is scheduled to appear in 2009. He is presently working with Stephen Pitel of the University of Western Ontario on a textbook on the Conflict of Laws for Irwin Law, also planned for publication in 2009. In 2007, the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal for Legal Scholarship. He has consulted frequently on the subject and has appeared as an expert witness.



Geneviève Saumier (McGill University), B.Comm. (McGill), BCL, LLB (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

 

 

 

 

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