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Harry William Arthurs | |
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| President of York University | |
| In office 1985–1992 | |
| Preceded by | Hugh Ian Macdonald |
| Succeeded by | Susan Mann |
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| Born | May 9,1935 Toronto,Ontario,Canada |
Harry William Arthurs OC OOnt FRSC FBA (born May 9,1935) is a Canadian lawyer,academic,and academic administrator. He is one of Canada's leading labour law scholars.
Born in Toronto,Ontario,he attended the Oakwood Collegiate Institute. [1] Dorothy Dworkin is his grandmother. [2] [3] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1958 from the University of Toronto. He received a Master of Law in 1959 from the Harvard Law School. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1961.
In 1961,he joined the faculty of the Osgoode Hall Law School as an Assistant Professor. In 1964,he was made an Associate Professor and a Professor in 1968. From 1968 to 1970 he was the Associate Dean and from 1972 to 1977,he was the Dean. From 1985 to 1992,he was the President of York University. In 1995,he was appointed University Professor of Law and Political Science.
In 2004,he was appointed Commissioner leading the review of federal Labour Standards,Part III of the Canada Labour Code,in 2006 as Chair of the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions,and in 2010 as Chair of the Funding Review of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
He is the author of Without the Law:Administrative Justice and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth Century England,published in 1985.
York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university,and it has approximately 55,700 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,Faculty of Science,Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,Faculty of Education,Faculty of Health,Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,Faculty of Graduate Studies,School of the Arts,Media,Performance and Design,and 28 research centres.
Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor at the University of Toronto,Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics.
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Toronto. The Faculty's admissions process is the most selective of law schools in Canada and is one of the most selective in North America. The Faculty has consistently been ranked as the top law school for Common Law in Canada by Maclean's since it began to publish law school rankings. The Faculty offers the JD,LLM,SJD,MSL,and GPLLM degrees in law.
Osgoode Hall Law School,commonly shortened to Osgoode,is the law school of York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada.
Ronald St. John Macdonald,was a Canadian legal academic and jurist.
Michael J. Trebilcock is a New Zealand-born,Canadian-based law academic. He is currently distinguished university professor and professor of law at the University of Toronto,specializing in law and economics.
James Milton Ham,was a Canadian engineer,university administrator and President of the University of Toronto.
The Killam Trusts were established in 1965 after the death of Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam,the widow of Izaak Walton Killam,a Canadian financier,for a time the wealthiest man in Canada. He died intestate in 1955,but before his death he and his wife discussed in extensive detail the scholarship plan on which the Killam Trusts were founded. Approximately one half of his estate went to the government as inheritance tax. It was used to found the Canada Council,along with similar funds from the estate of Sir James Dunn,also from Nova Scotia. The rest of Mr. Killam's estate was inherited by his widow,Dorothy J. Killam. In the ten years between his death and hers,she doubled the Killam fortune. Upon her death at Villa Leopolda,her estate in France,her lawyer Donald N. Byers,QC put into motion the plans the Killams had discussed during their lifetimes. Having no children of their own,the Killams decided to leave their fortune to further post-secondary education in Canada at the graduate studies level.
Herbert Allan Borden Leal,was a Canadian civil servant and academic. He was Deputy Attorney General of Ontario,dean of Osgoode Hall Law School,and chancellor of McMaster University.
Robert James Sharpe,OC,FRSC is a Canadian lawyer,author,academic,and judge. He was dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1995 and a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1999 to 2020.
Stephen Alexander Smith was a Canadian legal scholar and writer.
Janet Walker is a Chartered Arbitrator with offices in Toronto,Canada,London,England and Sydney,Australia. She is a Canadian scholar and author in the fields of Private International Law and Civil Procedure at Osgoode Hall Law School. She is also a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. Walker is married to Australian lawyer and international arbitrator,Doug Jones AO.
Demetri Terzopoulos is an Academy Award winning Greek-Canadian-American computer scientist,university professor,author,and entrepreneur. He is best known for pioneering the physics-based approach to computer graphics and vision that has helped unify these two fields,and for introducing Deformable Models,among them the seminal Active Contour Models,to graphics,vision,medical imaging,and other domains;he is also known for his artificial life research on realistic animal and human modeling and simulation,encompassing musculoskeletal biomechanics,neuromuscular and neuro-sensorimotor control,and artificial intelligence. He has been a professor of computer science,electrical and computer engineering,and mathematics,and has taught courses in computer graphics,computer vision,scientific computing,and artificial intelligence/life at three universities. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California,Los Angeles,where he directs the UCLA Computer Graphics &Vision Laboratory.
Ronald Kerry Rowe,OC,BSc,BE,PhD,D.Eng,DSc (hc),FRS,FREng,NAE,FRSC,FCAE,Dist.M.ASCE,FEIC,FIE(Aust),FCSCE,PEng.,CPEng. is a Canadian civil engineer of Australian birth,one of the pioneers of geosynthetics.
Douglas Wade Stephan is professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto,a post he has held since 2008.
John Borrows is a Canadian academic and jurist. He is a full professor of law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law,where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law. He is known as a leading authority on Canadian Indigenous law and constitutional law and has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Morley K Gunderson,is a Canadian labour economist and professor emeritus at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto in Toronto,Ontario. He is the inaugural holder of the CIBC Chair in Youth Employment at University of Toronto. In honour of his tenure as director of the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources from 1985-1997,the Morley Gunderson Prize was established. He is known for his contributions to understanding the effects of minimum wages,youth employment,and gender discrimination in the labour market.
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