Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. A variety of LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available.
Bora Laskin was a Canadian jurist who served as the 14th chief justice of Canada from 1973 to 1984. Laskin was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court in 1970, and served on the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1965 to 1970. Before he was named to the bench, Laskin worked as a lawyer and in academia.
Sir Lyman Poore Duff,, PC(UK) was a Canadian lawyer and judge who served as the eighth Chief Justice of Canada. He was the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Roland Roy McMurtry, is a Canadian lawyer, retired judge and former politician in Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, serving in the cabinet of Bill Davis as Attorney General and as Solicitor General. After leaving politics, McMurtry was High Commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom between 1985 and 1988. He became a judge in 1991 and was appointed as Chief Justice of Ontario in 1996. McMurtry retired from the bench in 2007 and returned to the private practice of law.
Osgoode Hall is a landmark building in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The original 2+1⁄2-storey building was started in 1829 and finished in 1832 from a design by John Ewart and William Warren Baldwin. The structure is named for William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada.
Wishart Flett Spence, was a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Gerald Eric Le Dain, was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who sat on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1984 to 1988.
John Douglas Arnup, was a Canadian judge on the Court of Appeal for Ontario, who is best known for having pioneered universal legal aid in Ontario.
Goldwin Arthur Martin was a Canadian lawyer and judge who was known as an expert on criminal law. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1973 to 1988.
James Chalmers McRuer was a Canadian lawyer, judge, commissioner and author in Ontario.
Allen Martin Linden,, was a Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal and distinguished tort law professor. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015.
Patrick J. Monahan is a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Before his elevation in May 2023, he was a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to becoming a judge he was the deputy attorney general for the Province of Ontario. He was also previously the vice president academic and provost at York University in Toronto, Canada, as well as an affiliated scholar with the law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. From 2003 until July 2009, Monahan was the dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He has written extensively on constitutional reform and public policy, and served as senior policy advisor to former Ontario premier David Peterson as well as former Ontario attorney general Ian Scott during the Meech Lake Accord negotiations from 1987 to 1990. He has appeared as legal counsel in major public law litigation at the Supreme Court of Canada as well as in lower courts. He was a frequent commentator on constitutional and public policy issues in the national media. He received his LL.B. degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, where he graduated as gold medalist, and an LL.M. degree from Harvard University. On May 19, 2017, Patrick Monahan was appointed by the federal government of Canada as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.
Arturo Dizon Brion is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He took his oath as a member of the Supreme Court on March 17, 2008. From 2006 until his appointment to the Supreme Court, Brion served in the cabinet of President Macapagal-Arroyo as the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment.
Harry Smith LaForme is a Canadian judge.
William Goldwin Carrington Howland was a Canadian lawyer, judge and former Chief Justice of Ontario.
Murray Douglas Morton (1916–2001) was a Canadian soldier, lawyer, politician, and judge. He was best known as an elected trustee of the Toronto Board of Education, as federal Member of Parliament for Toronto's Davenport riding, and as a judge in Ontario's Provincial Court.
Michael H. Tulloch is a Canadian judge. On December 19, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of Tulloch as the new Chief Justice of Ontario. He is the first Black judge appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the first Black Chief Justice of any province.
Russell Gordon Juriansz is a Canadian jurist who served as a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Juriansz was born in 1946 in Kirkee (Khadki), Maharashta, and came to Canada with his family in 1955. He received a BS from the University of Toronto in 1969 and graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1972. Juriansz was appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 1998. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in March 2004 and retired on August 30, 2021.
Lorne Sossin is a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Before his appointment to the Court of Appeal, Sossin was a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and a law professor.
Mahmud Jamal is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021. Jamal worked as a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt and taught law at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School before he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2019. He was nominated to the Supreme Court on June 17, 2021, taking office on July 1 to succeed Rosalie Abella. Jamal was born in Kenya to a family of Indian origin, making him the first person from a visible minority group to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.
