The secondment of an Osgoode Hall faculty member for six months one of the several contributions Osgoode is making to the success of the LCO.
2012-2013 - Stephanie Ben-Ishai
2011-2012 - Aaron Dhir
2010-2011 - Jamie Cameron
2009-2010 - Giuseppina D'Agostino
Poonam Puri
2009 - Roxanne Mykitiuk
2008 - Janet Walker
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Professor Ben-Ishai is an internationally recognized expert on insolvency, corporate governance and commercial law. A frequent guest speaker, Professor Ben-Ishai has presented her work around the world. She has received the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence, SSHRC and Fulbright fellowships. Professor Ben-Ishai has served as an INSOL International Scholar and was awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Research Fellowship for her insolvency research. Her recent research has also been funded by SSHRC, the Insolvency Institute of Canada, the Schulich Program on Financial Services, the Industry Canada Insolvency Research Initiative, a Borden Ladner Gervais Research Fellowship, and the Foundation for Legal Research. She has served as the editor of leading Canadian and Australian commercial law journals and is an active member of a number of Canadian and international professional, community and academic boards and committees. Professor Ben-Ishai is the author and co-author/co-editor of four books on insolvency and contract law and over 25 articles on insolvency, commercial and corporate law. She has held various visiting appointments including Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2007-8), Monash University Law School (Melbourne, Australia) (2008), and the Faculty of Law, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) (2009). Before entering academics, Professor Ben-Ishai practised with the Insolvency and Restructuring Group at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP, and also clerked for three judges at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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Professor Dhir’s teaching and research interests include corporate law, governance and theory and the intersections of transnational business activity with international human rights norms. He has participated as an invited expert in some of the most significant policy reform initiatives in his areas of expertise, including the Government of Canada’s “National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility” and the Ontario Securities Commission’s “Review of Environmental and Corporate Governance Disclosure Requirements”. Most recently, he co-convened a multi-stakeholder expert consultation on "Corporate Law and Human Rights" in support of the mandate of the U.N. Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie.
Professor Dhir began his professional career with one of Canada’s leading business law firms. He then made a shift to social justice advocacy and has acted on cases up to and including the Supreme Court of Canada. At the international level, he has experience with the treaty formulation process, having participated as a non-governmental organization delegate to U.N. working group meetings on two human rights conventions.
Professor Dhir completed his graduate studies at New York University School of Law, where he was a Graduate Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. While at NYU, he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Professor Philip Alston – one of the world’s leading human rights experts – and was awarded NYU's prestigious Vanderbilt Medal.
Professor Dhir’s writing has appeared in various publications, including the Stanford Journal of International Law, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Queen’s Law Journal, the American Business Law Journal, the Banking & Finance Law Review and the Canadian Business Law Journal.
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Professor Cameron teaches at the Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School and her teaching interests include American and Canadian Constitutional Law, the Charter of Rights, Criminal Law, and Freedom of Expression. She has done extensive research in comparative aspects of Canadian and American constitutional law, with particular emphasis on the interpretation of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms in each jurisdiction. Other areas of research interest include freedom of expression and the press; freedom of association; constitutionalization of criminal law; and principles of fundamental justice. Author of The Charter's Impact on the Criminal Justice System, Professor Cameron has been involved in constitutional reform initiatives, serving as an advisor to former Ontario Premier David Peterson during the Meech Lake Accord process, as a witness to various Parliamentary committees, and as a member of the national YES committee during the Charlottetown Accord and referendum process. As well, she has been active in a variety of academic and public interest projects and currently serves as Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal as well as on the Board of Editors for Ontario Reports and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Prior to joining Osgoode in 1984, she was Clerk to the Right Honourable Justice Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, practised as an associate lawyer in Vancouver, and taught at two American law schools, Columbia and Cornell.
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Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino joined the Osgoode faculty in 2006. Before her appointment, she was recruited by the Federal government’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders (RPL) program to work on domestic and international copyright reform matters for the Department of Canadian Heritage. She completed her doctoral and masters studies with distinction at the University of Oxford and was the recipient of various scholarships including a SSHRC fellowship. Her book Copyright, Contracts, Creators is forthcoming (Edward Elgar 2009). Her novel work on the electronic health record was awarded the Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Fellowship in 2009 and, while in the UK, was funded by the Economic Social Sciences and Research Council and continues to be the subject of various speaking engagements and publications including “On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for eScience and the Electronic Health Record” (2008) 14:2 Informatics Health Journal 95-111.
Her research interests are wide-ranging and her more recent article “Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canada’s Fair Dealing to U.K. Fair Dealing and U.S. Fair Use” (2008) 53 McGill L.J. 3 was based on a study she conducted for the Canadian government on the complex copyright doctrines of fair dealing and fair use.
Before her return to Canada, Professor D’Agostino was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford where she taught Jurisprudence and remains a Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC). She is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School’s first Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program (iposgoode.ca). Before her graduate studies, Professor D’Agostino worked for a large Toronto law firm where she practiced corporate and technology law.
Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime.
Appointed to York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 at the age of 25, and a recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award in 1999, Puri is a prolific scholar who has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles or reports. She has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School.
Her work is academically rigorous as well as firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making. It is for this reason that governments and regulators in Canada and internationally, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Canadian Senate, the Wise Persons Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, have sought her expertise.
In 2008, she was appointed as one of two research directors of the Canadian Ministry of Finance’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, which is seeking input on the best way to develop and implement a model Common Securities Act for Canada. In 2005, she was co-research director of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation and also served as a member of the OSC’s Investor Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007. She was the President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association from 2006-2008.
A 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40™ award, she was appointed in 2008 to the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. She is on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Food Banks, and an inaugural member of the University of Toronto President’s International Advisory Council.
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Professor Mykitiuk began her 6 month tenure as the OHLS LCO Scholar in Residence on secondment from the faculty at Osgoode, on January 2, 2009, and will be working on the development of a coherent approach to the law as it affects persons with disabilities . She is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where she teaches in the areas of Health Law and Bioethics, Law and Disability and Family Law. She is the author or co-author of a number of articles and book chapters investigating legal, ethical and social implications of new reproductive technologies and the new genetics and the legal construction and regulation of embodiment and disability. She is also the co-editor with Martha Fineman of The Public Nature of Private Violence (Routledge, 1994), the co-editor with Margrit Shildrick of Ethics of the Body: Rethinking the Conventions (MIT Press, 2005) and the co-author with Trudo Lemmens and Mireille Lacroix of Reading the Future: Legal and Ethical Challenges of New Predictive Genetic Testing (Les Editions Themis, 2007. Professor Mykitiuk holds and participates in a number of current research grants funded by SSHRC, CIHR and Genome Canada including: “Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in Canada” ; “Beyond the Margins of (Dis)Ability: Enabling Women With Disabilities to Achieve Health” and “Shifting Conceptions of Health, Disease, Illness, Normalcy and Disability?”
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Dr. Janet Walker began her 6 month tenure as the first OHLS LCO Scholar in Residence, on secondment from the faculty at Osgoode, on July 1, 2008. A member of the Osgoode faculty since 1996, Dr. Walker has held many visiting positions in universities around the world, is a member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law and the Canadian Panel of Arbitrators with the International Chamber of Commerce and serves as an expert witness on conflict of laws, especially the law of jurisdiction, forum non conveniences, the recognition and enforcement of judgments and the application of foreign law.
She is the author or co-author of several books and articles on conflict of laws, including most recently “Forum Selection Clauses and Unfair Jurisdictions” (Dispute Resolution International, 2007) and”The Role of Domestic Courts in the International Legal Order: A Tribute to Richard Falk” (ILSA J International & Comparative Law, 2005).
As the OHLS LCO Scholar in Residence, Professor Walker will study ways to improve the capacity of the judicial system to address cross-border litigation.
