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Michael J. Trebilcock [1] (born 1941) 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.
Trebilcock attended Rangiora High School.
Trebilcock taught at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, until 1969, when he came to Canada as a visiting associate professor of law at McGill Law School. He was appointed associate professor of law at McGill in 1970 and joined the faculty of law at the University of Toronto as a professor of law in 1972. He has served as national vice-president of the Consumers' Association of Canada, chair of the Consumer Research Council and research director of the Professional Organizations Committee for the Government of Ontario. He was a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School in 1976, a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School in 1985, and a global law professor at New York University Law School in 1997 and 1999. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the Research Council of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. In 1987 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed a university professor in 1990. He was honoured with a University of Toronto Teaching Award in 1986.
He was awarded the Warren Owen Prize in 1989 by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade, which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the past two years. He has since authored The Limits of Freedom of Contract and co-authored The Regulation of International Trade; Exploring the Domain of Accident Law: Taking the Facts Seriously; and The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy.
Trebilcock specializes in law and economics, international trade and contract and commercial law. He serves as co-director of the Law and Economics Program. In 1999, Trebilcock received an honorary doctorate in laws from McGill University and was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the same year he was elected an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2]
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.
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
Frank Iacobucci, LSM OMRI is a former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 until his retirement from the bench in 2004. He was the first Italian-Canadian, allophone judge on the Court. Iacobucci was also the first judge on the Supreme Court to have been born, raised and educated in British Columbia. Iacobucci has had a distinguished career in private practice, academia, the civil service and the judiciary.
Rosalie Silberman Abella is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federal bench in 2021.
Sylvia Ostry, was a high-ranking Canadian economist and public servant. She was educated at McGill University and the University of Cambridge.
Gordon Francis Joseph Osbaldeston, was a Canadian civil servant.
Harry William Arthurs is a Canadian lawyer, academic, and academic administrator. He is one of Canada's leading labour law scholars.
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Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at University of Notre Dame Australia. She was previously Samuel Gale Professor of Law at McGill University.
Ronald Joel Daniels is a Canadian academic and the current president of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he assumed on March 2, 2009. Daniels' tenure in this role has been extended twice, and is currently set to run through 2029. Daniels was previously the vice-president and provost at the University of Pennsylvania, and prior to that was dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Daniels received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, and his LL.M. degree from Yale Law School.
Francis "Frank" Herbert Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University School of Law where he has taught since 1989. Before then he was a visiting Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He has also taught at Panthéon-Assas University, Sciences Po in Paris and the McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal. He practiced law for three years in Toronto.
Dave Holmes, RN, Ph.D., is a Canadian professor of nursing, researcher, and author based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research and writing are focused in the fields of public health, forensic nursing, critical theory, epistemology, law, ethics, psychiatric nursing, correctional nursing, the sociopolitical aspects of nursing, sexuality, and public health nursing.
Arie Reich is an Israeli legal scholar specializing in international trade law and European Union Law. He is a full professor at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, and serves as the Vice Rector of the university. He previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Dean of students.
David T. Lametti is the current Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. He is a Canadian legal scholar and Liberal politician, and was a professor of law at McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and a founding member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy.
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Edward Michael Iacobucci is a Canadian lawyer and academic who is a former dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he is also the James M. Tory Professor of Law. Before taking over from interim dean Jutta Brunnée on January 1, 2015 for a five-year term, he was a professor in the faculty, the faculty’s associate dean of research, and the Osler Chair in Business Law. His primary research areas are corporate law, competition law, and the intersection of economics and the law.
Petra Butler is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.
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.
Anita Indira Anand is the minister of public services and procurement and the receiver general for Canada. She has represented the riding of Oakville in the House of Commons since the 2019 federal election, sitting as a member of the Liberal Party. She is the first Indian Canadian of a Hindu background to become a federal minister in Canada.
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