Giuseppina d'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)	Lawyer, legal scholar
Employer	Osgoode Hall Law School
Known for	Intellectual property law

Giuseppina (Pina) D'Agostino is a Canadian lawyer and legal scholar specializing in intellectual property law who teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School. ^[1] In 2025 she took on a one-year term as an associate vice-president at York University. ^[2] She is regularly called upon by the Canadian Federal and Provincial governments for advice and is a cited authority at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Life

She earned an LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Masters and D.Phil. degrees at the University of Oxford where she formerly lectured. ^[1] She is a visiting scholar at the law school of Stanford University.

She is the author of Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules (2010) ^[3] and co-edited The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (2010) and Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (2021). ^[4]

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the first IP law blog of its kind. ^[5] In 2023 she became the first vice-director of "Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society", a new research project that received over $300 million in funding. ^[6] She later became its director. ^[7]

Works

• D'Agostino, Giuseppina (2007). Fair Dealing After CCH (PDF). Canadian Heritage, Copyright Policy Branch. ISBN   978-0-662-46883-7 . Retrieved 2025-05-14.
• D'Agostino, Giuseppina (2008). "Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canadian Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and US Fair Use" (PDF). McGill Law Journal . 53 (2). SSRN   1014404.
• D'Agostino, G. (2010). Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules. Edward Elgar. ISBN   978-1-84980-520-9 . Retrieved 2017-12-21.
• Ng, C.; Bently, L.; D'Agostino, G. (2010). "Was There Ever a Common Law of Intellectual Property?". The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84731-593-9 . Retrieved 2017-12-21.
• D'Agostino, Giuseppina (Pina); Gaon, Aviv; Piovesan, Carole, eds. (2021). Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and A Toolkit For Lawyers And The Law. Thomson Reuters. ISBN   978-0-7798-9871-8.

References

1. Waugh, Jeffrey H. (November 3, 2008). "Osgoode Hall offers up new IP resource to students". Canadian Lawyer. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
2. Asif, Amir (2025-04-02). "Appointment of Pina D'Agostino as associate vice-president research". YFile. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
3. Scassa, Teresa (2011). "Giuseppina D'Agostino, Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010)". Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. 9 (1–2): 93–98. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
4. Kratz, Martin (2021-09-22). "Book Review: Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law". Slaw. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
5. "D'Agostino, Giuseppina - Osgoode Hall Law School". Osgoode.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
6. Dino, Angelica. "Osgoode professor Pina D'Agostino named as vice-director of multimillion AI research initiative". Law Times. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
7. "Welcoming New Leadership". Connected Minds. Retrieved 2025-05-14.

External links

• IPilogue