Our Faculty

Members of the Faculty of Law are often leaders in their fields. For full descriptions of faculty, areas of interest and qualifications please see our the Law Faculty Directory.

The following is a full list of the talented members of our faculty with their research interests:

• Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, DJur (Osgoode)
  Associate Dean, Administration and Research. Torts; remedies; insurance; race, ethnicity, and the law; feminist analysis of law
  
  
• Gillian Calder, LLM (Osgoode)
  Constitutional law, feminist legal theory, social benefits law, family law, performance and law
  
  
• Jamie Cassels, QC, LLM (Columbia)
  Contracts, legal theory, remedies

• M. Cheryl Crane, LLM (Cambridge)
  Employment law, administrative law
  
  

• Deborah L. Curran, LLM (California, at Berkley)
  Hakai Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainability. Water law, growth management and land use law, food systems, the common ownership of property

• Maneesha Deckha, LLM (Columbia)
  Feminist legal theory, posthumanism, animal ethics, postcolonialism, critical race theory, bioethics, law and culture, law and society
  
  
• Gerry Ferguson, LLM (New York)
  University of Victoria Distinguished Professor. Criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, mental health law
  
  
• Hamar Foster, QC, MJur (Auckland)
  Legal history, Aboriginal law, comparative criminal law, the law of evidence and the law of property

• Judy Fudge, DPhil (Oxford)
  Director, Graduate Program in Law. Lansdowne Chair in Law. Employment and labour law (Canadian, comparative, and international), feminist political economy, the political economy of law, sociological approaches to law
  
  
• J. Donald C. Galloway, LLM (Harvard)
  Torts, immigration and refugee Law, jurisprudence
  
  
• Mark R. Gillen, LLM (Toronto)
  Securities regulation, business associations, trusts, taxation law, competition law

• Donna Greschner, BCLLC (Oxford)
  Dean of Law. Constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, equity rights, health-care law, legal theory

• Robert G. Howell, LLM (Illinois)
  Intellectual property, managing intellectual property, telecommunications, private international law (conflicts of law)
  
  

• Rebecca Johnson, SJD (Michigan)
  Law and society, legal discourse, culture and the humanities, law and popular culture, law and literature, feminist legal theory, statutory interpretation, criminal law, equality law
  
  
• Freya Kodar, LLM (York)
  Pension provision and regulation, feminist political economy, debtor and creditor relations, social welfare law, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate and market regulation, feminist legal theory
  
  

• Hester A. Lessard, LLM (Columbia)
  Constitutional law, feminist legal theory, equity rights
  
  
• Colin MacLeod, PhD (Cornell)
  Moral, political, and legal philosophy; jurisprudence (especially the relation between law and morality); children’s rights
  
  
• Ted L. McDorman, LLM (Dalhousie) - On leave
  Public international law, international trade law, international ocean and environmental law and private international law (conflicts of law), environmental law, comparative Asian law
  
  
• John McLaren, LLD (Calgary) - Professor Emeritus
  Canadian and colonial legal history, law and religion, law and discrimination, the rule of law
  

• R. Michael M'Gonigle, JSD (Yale)
  Eco Research Chair in Environmental Law and Policy. Environmental and resource management, political ecology and green legal theory, international environmental law, urban sustainability, community-based governance

• Andrew Newcombe, LLM (Toronto)
  International investment law, international arbitration, international trade law, commercial law
  
  
• Martha O'Brien, LLM (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Taxation, European Union law

• Andrew J. Pirie, LLM (Wellington)
  Alternative dispute resolution, theory and practice of negotiation and mediation, access to civil justice, professional responsibility and legal ethics
  
  
• Chris Tollefson, LLM (Osgoode)
  Hakai Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability. Environmental law and policy, environment and international trade, environmental/resource management and Aboriginal rights, forest law and policy, coastal zone management, clinical legal education
  
  
• Jim Tully, PhD (Cambridge)
  Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance, and Philosophy. Contemporary legal theory, history of legal theory, Canadian constitutional theory, Aboriginal rights
  
  
• Mary Anne Waldron, QC, LLM (UBC)
  Real estate law, plain language research
  
  
• Jeremy Webber, LLM (Osgoode)
  Canada Research Chair in Law and Society. Law and society, cultural diversity, constitutional law and theory, Aboriginal rights