Instructor Profile
Fledging lawyers with an interest in business transactions face a very different legal landscape to the one Germán Morales Farah entered almost three decades ago. “When I started, I had firms and companies that were willing to invest in me while I learned,” says Morales Farah, the Program Director for… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileOsgoodePD program on business transactions helps students put their core learning into practice
Patricia Morrison remembers a time when she could count the members of Calgary’s construction law bar on her fingers. Still a relatively new call when her firm merged to become the national firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in March 2000, Morrison – one of three new program advisors for Osgoode’s… Click to Continue Reading.
François Tanguay-Renaud got his start in the law at an early age, enrolling in McGill University’s combined civil law and common law program right out of high school. “I’ve never really left. Since I was 19, I’ve been in the legal profession or on the road,” he says of a career… Click to Continue Reading.
Benjamin Berger isn’t afraid to push his students. In fact, he says it’s part of his job as program director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure. “When you enroll, you’ve got to be open to the idea of being pushed out of the comfort zone of your… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileMeet Benjamin Berger, Program Director for Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure
Students in Sara Slinn’s classes should expect to go beyond the black letter law of labour and employment in Canada. In addition to her role as one of the program directors of Osgoode’s part-time Professional LLM in Labour and Employment Law, Slinn teaches courses on labour law and labour arbitration,… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up with a keen interest in politics, Warren J. Newman set his sights on the legal profession in his early teenage years – mostly as a stepping stone to his ultimate goal. “My intention was to become a lawyer and then enter public life,” he says. “Instead, I’ve ended… Click to Continue Reading.
Bruce McCuaig, co-program director of the Professional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law, is not one to rest on his laurels. “I highly believe in continuing your education and knowledge gathering throughout your career,” he says. As co-program director, McCuaig guides working professionals with legal and non-legal backgrounds do just… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileProfessional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law co-program director Bruce McCuaig
One highlight stands above the rest for Marc Bhalla from the inaugural run of OsgoodePD’s In Search of Reconciliation Through Dispute Resolution, the intensive course he co-founded with fellow Professional LLM in Dispute Resolution grad Andrea Menard. “I had just discovered this Indigenous group called Snotty Nose Rez Kids and… Click to Continue Reading.
Natalija Popovic feels right at home in front of a law school classroom. After decades in the field of litigation, she says it wasn’t a huge leap for her to join the faculty of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law. And over the last nine years, Popovic has noticed… Click to Continue Reading.
John D. R. Craig is something of an evangelist for continuing legal education. “I think it’s crucially important for all legal practitioners,” says Craig, a partner at labour and employment law boutique Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP and the 2024 winner of OsgoodePD’s 2024 CLE Contribution Award. Long before the… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileLabour and employment law legend John Craig wins OsgoodePD’s CLE Contribution Award
Barnali Choudhury has the passport stamps to match her credentials as a globally renowned expert in international business law. After completing her first legal degree in Canada, Choudhury earned an LLM at Columbia Law School in the U.S., followed by a PhD from Switzerland’s University of Zurich. Her teaching career… Click to Continue Reading.