Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, a position she has held since 2023. She completed her LLB at Laval University, her LLM at the University of Toronto and her doctor of civil law degree (DCL) at McGill University.
Ampleman-Tremblay's research focuses mostly on sexual violence, individual and collective responsibility, and legal rights. Her current project entitled "Rethinking Legal Narratives & Criminal Responsibility: A Case Study of Extreme Intoxication" is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.
At the Faculty of Law, Ampleman-Tremblay teaches courses on criminal law and legal history. In 2025, she received the Faculty of Law's Tevie H. Miller Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching by a full-time member of the Faculty of Law.
Professor Benjamin L. Berger is Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He held the York Research Chair in Pluralism and Public Law and in 2020 he was elected as a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Berger served as Associate Dean (Students) from 2015-2018. He holds an appointment as Professor (status only) in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and is a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. His areas of research and teaching specialization are law and religion, criminal and constitutional law and theory, and the law of evidence. He has published broadly in these fields and his work has appeared in leading legal and interdisciplinary journals and edited collections.
Michelle Biddulph is a criminal defence lawyer at Greenspan Humphrey Makepeace LLP in Toronto, where her practice focuses on criminal appeals, criminal trials, and cross-border criminal matters. Michelle is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, where she has taught courses such as Evidence Law and Wrongful Convictions. In addition, she volunteers as a coach of the Wilson moot team at Lincoln Alexander School of Law. She has authored over twenty articles published in legal academic journals across Canada, the United States, and Australia.
Michelle graduated from the University Saskatchewan College of Law in 2014. She served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Richards of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in 2014-2015, and then as a law clerk to Justice Brown and Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2015-2016. She was called to the bar in 2015.
Jamie Cameron, Professor Emerita, was a full-time member of faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1984 to 2020. She has taught and written on constitutional and public law issues, has extensive publications and edited collections, has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in many cases, and has served on a number of professional and cultural boards. She completed an MA in art history at York University in June 2024.
Joseph Cheng is Senior General Counsel with the Department of Justice Canada’s National Litigation Sector (Ontario Regional Office). In this capacity, he litigates on behalf of federal government departments and agencies in the areas of constitutional, administrative, human rights, and regulatory law before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Mr. Cheng is Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he teaches constitutional litigation and is a faculty moot advisor. He is a past-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law Section and a past co-Chair of Osgoode Professional Development’s Crown Liability Conference and the OBA’s Annual Charter Conference.
Mr. Cheng has served as a Board Member of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Equity Advisory Group, and a Council Member of the University of Toronto’s Law Alumni Association.
Mr. Cheng was the inaugural recipient of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers’ Young Lawyer of the Year Award and an inaugural recipient of Precedent magazine’s Precedent Setter Award, in recognition of his contributions to the legal and broader community. He is also the recipient of an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto in recognition of his voluntary service to the Faculty of Law.
Professor Farrow is internationally recognized as a leading scholar on access to justice, legal process and the profession. He is regularly consulted and invited to participate at conferences, expert panels, policy initiatives and justice projects in Canada and around the world, including as a research expert on the OECD’s Advisory Justice Research Consortium. Professor Farrow has been awarded numerous Canadian and international grants to conduct innovative and ground-breaking research, including his $1 million SSHRC “Costs of Justice” grant, which was the first national study of its kind to look at financial and other costs associated with access to justice in Canada. Professor Farrow is consistently ranked in the top 10% of authors on SSRN by all-time and annual downloads and his research is widely cited and relied on by researchers, policy makers, governments, judges and the media in Canada and around the world.
Professor Farrow has held numerous administrative and leadership appointments at Osgoode Hall Law School, including Associate Dean, Associate Dean (Academic), Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), and Faculty Council Chair. He is the Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, the founding Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, and was the Director of the York Centre for Public Policy and Law. He also serves on numerous research and policy panels and committees, including Canada’s Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters (he was credited as “the holder of the pen” on the Action Committee’s ground-breaking and often nationally and internationally cited Roadmap for Change report). Professor Farrow was formerly a litigation lawyer at the Torys law firm in Toronto.
Kate Glover Berger joined the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2020. From 2015-2020, Professor Berger was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Western University, where she was co-director of Western Law’s Public law research group and taught Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and specialized seminars in Public Law. Professor Berger earned her doctorate in law from McGill University as a Vanier Scholar and held the O’Brien Fellowship in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. She earned her masters in law from the University of Cambridge, where she was the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin Senior Scholar. In 2009-2010, she served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Berger has appeared as counsel before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has served as an expert witness before the Senate, providing testimony to the Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization. She is the academic chair of the Annual National Forum on Administrative Law and chair of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers.
Professor Berger’s scholarly and teaching expertise lies in administrative and constitutional law. She researches and publishes widely in these areas, with an emphasis on administrative law and its relationship to the constitution; the nature of the administrative state; the design of institutions and fair process; judicial review of administrative action; and constitutional principles, architecture, and amendment. Her research appears in leading Canadian and international journals and edited collections, and has been translated for inclusion in international publications. She is the author of “The Principles and Practices of Procedural Fairness” in Administrative Law in Context, 3d ed (Toronto: Emond, 2018) and the chapter on Canada in Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment (Oxford: Hart, 2017). Professor Berger has been invited to present her scholarship across Canada and around the world, including at the Frontiers of Public Law Conference (University of Melbourne & University of Cambridge), the Colloque sur la modification constitutionelle dans tous ses états (Palace des Académies, Brussels), and the Comparative Public Law Workshop (American Society for Comparative Law & University of Ottawa). In 2017-18, Professor Berger held the inaugural Dean’s Research Fellowship at Western Law. In 2017, her research was awarded the Prix d’Excellence de L’Association des Doyens des Études Supérieures au Québec.
A recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Western Law Award for Teaching Excellence (2015-16) and the J. McLeod Professor of the Year Award (2016-17), Professor Berger teaches JD courses and seminars in administrative law, constitutional law, and advanced public law. She is also active in graduate legal education, and in addition to supervising graduate research at both the masters and doctoral level, she has taught graduate courses on research methods and legal inquiry. Committed to ongoing legal education, Professor Berger also lectures on specialized topics of public law in professional development programs.
Matthew Gourlay is a partner, and Co-Chair of the Criminal Litigation Practice Group at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP. He practises primarily in criminal law, at both the trial and appellate level. He appears regularly in the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada as well as trial courts in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Matthew is vice-chair of the Pro Bono Inmate Appeal Program, a program that provides the assistance of experienced appellate counsel to unrepresented litigants in the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has written and published widely in the areas of criminal and evidence law. He is co-author of Modern Criminal Evidence (Emond, 2nd ed. forthcoming 2026) and Charter Remedies in Criminal Cases: A Practitioner’s Handbook (Emond, 2nd ed. 2023). He is co-editor of Martin’s Annual Criminal Code, Martin’s Ontario Criminal Practice, and Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes, and legal editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases. He graduated as gold medalist from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2008 then served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada from 2008 to 2009.
Jeffery G. Hewitt joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019. After graduating from Osgoode in 1996 and being called to the Bar in Ontario in 1998, Professor Hewitt returned to complete his LLM in 2015/16. Professor Hewitt’s research interests include Indigenous legal orders and governance, constitutional law, human rights, legal education, business law, as well as art + law and visual legal studies. Professor Hewitt mainly teaches constitutional law, Indigenous-related courses and is a co-director of Osgoode’s Intensive Program in Indigenous Lands, Resources, and Governments. He is mixed-descent Cree, was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1998 and works with Chippewas of Rama First Nation as counsel.
Joshua Hunter has been Counsel in the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General since October 2007. Previously, he has been Law Clerk to the Honourable Justice Marshall E. Rothstein at the Federal Court of Appeal, Counsel in the Crown Law Office – Civil of the Ministry of the Attorney General, and Counsel in the Tax Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Canada.
Josh holds a B.A. (Hons.) from McMaster University, an LL.B., an M.B.A., and an M.T.S. from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. He is admitted to the practice of law in Ontario, England and Wales, New York, the United States Supreme Court, Australia, and New Zealand. He has published papers on the rules of succession to the throne, Charter damages, judicial appointments, and electoral reform.
Josh has appeared in courts and tribunals in Ontario, Québec, and federally, including arguing on behalf of Ontario in the Supreme Court of Canada on multiple occasions. Josh has particular experience in judicial independence matters, religious freedom and denominational education, parliamentary institutions and procedure, and Canadian and English legal history.
Emily Kidd White is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She holds a J.S.D. and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, where she won the Jerome Lipper Prize for Highest Standing in the Program. Dr. Kidd White writes on constitutional law and on legal and political philosophy, with a particular interest on the various roles emotions play in legal reasoning. She is the author of Emotions in Legal Reasoning (Oxford University Press, Legal Philosophy Series, forthcoming), and, along with Susan Bandes, Jody Madeira, and Kathryn Temple, she recently co-edited the Research Handbook on Law and Emotion (Edward Elgar, 2021).
Lisa M. Kelly is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, where she teaches criminal law, evidence, criminal procedure, and sexual and reproductive justice. Professor Kelly studied history and political science at the University of British Columbia (B.A) and is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (S.J.D.). Professor Kelly’s research lies at the intersection of criminal law and family law with a focus on youth criminal justice and the legal regulation of young people at school and in their communities. She is currently completing a monograph – Unsafe: Schools and the Making of Police Powers in Canada – that builds on her SSHRC-funded work on police powers in Canadian schools. Professor Kelly regularly teaches in judicial education programs for the National Judicial Institute and the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges on topics including the testimonial competency and accommodation of child witnesses, youth criminal justice, and prior statement evidence. In 2018, she received the Stanley M. Corbett Award for Teaching Excellence.
Sonia Lawrence joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2001. She graduated from the University of Toronto’s joint LLB/MSW program, went on to serve as law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada, and pursued graduate work at Yale Law School. Her work centers on critical analyses of legal conception of equality.
Sonia has served in a number of administrative roles at Osgoode including Assistant Dean of First Year and Director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. Her current teaching includes a first year public and constitutional law, a seminar in critical race theory, and serving as the academic director/instructor for Feminist Advocacy, a clinical legal education opportunity offered in partnership with the Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic in Toronto. In the past she has served as the academic director for Osgoode’s Anti-Discrimination Intensive Program (offered in partnership with the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (Ontario), and taught seminars in gender equality, graduate research and research methods, among others. Sonia recently complete two terms as the President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers / Association Canadienne des Professeurs de Droit.
Patricia McMahon teaches and researches in the areas of civil procedure, law and equity and legal history broadly defined. She is also the Director and Lead Interviewer of the Oral History Program at the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the Co-Academic Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution. She joined the faculty in July 2022 after a number of years in private practice.
Professor McMahon holds a BA in history from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in history from the University of Toronto. She was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her work on how protest movements influenced Canada’s nuclear policy from 1957 to 1963, the subject of her PhD in Canadian diplomatic and political history from the University of Toronto. This was followed by an LLB (with honours) from the University of Toronto, where she served as co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review and received the Dean Cecil A. Wright Key. Following a clerkship with the Honorable Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada, she attended Yale Law School as a Fulbright Fellow, where she completed an LLM and JSD. Her dissertation dealt with the influence of law reform movements on the procedural fusion of law and equity in Victorian England, which led to the Judicature Acts and modern conceptions of civil procedure. At Yale, she was also a student director in a clinic engaged in civil liberties litigation related to the policies of the U.S. government following the attacks of September 11, 2001. This included cases involving detentions, search and seizure, due process, international human rights and humanitarian law. From 2004 to 2008, she served as a regional representative for the executive committee of Yale Law School.
While in private practice, Professor McMahon focused on complex litigation, including class actions, public law and tax litigation. She appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor McMahon has published widely on aspects of legal history, access to information, the fusion of law and equity and equitable procedure, including two books. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (with Robert J. Sharpe) was published jointly by the University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History in 2007. The book was the members’ selection for that year, won the Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize and was short-listed for the John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize. Essence of Indecision: Diefenbaker’s Nuclear Policy 1957-1963 was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2009 and is considered the leading text on the topic. She is currently working on three manuscripts: one related to the history of the fusion of law and equity, another with co-author Robert Bothwell on a multi-million-dollar fraud that involved the Canadian company that supplied uranium to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, and a third involving the judicial treatment of a series of landmark constitutional cases in the 1930s known as the “Bennett New Deal.”
Palma Paciocco is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. She holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees from the McGill Faculty of Law, and a B.A. (Hons.) from the McGill Faculty of Arts. She served as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Louise Charron of the Supreme Court of Canada and is called to the Bars of Ontario and New York. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of evidence law, criminal law and theory, criminal procedure, sentencing, and professional ethics. She has a particular interest in the role of discretionary decision-making within the criminal justice system, and her recent and current research explores issues including trial delay, the justifications for plea bargaining, the classification and treatment of expert evidence, and the actual and perceived tensions between accuracy and efficiency in the context of adjudicating evidence admissibility.
Dr. Michael Pal is a Full Professor and Research Professor in the Law of Democracy at the Faculty of Common Law, at the University of Ottawa, where he is appointed to the University Board of Governors and Senate. He researches in the areas of election law and Canadian and comparative constitutional law. He has published over 35 articles and co-edited multiple books. In 2025, he was a Visitor at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights at the University of Oxford. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and courts around the world in leading constitutional cases. He has recently appeared as counsel in the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Federal Court, and Federal Court of Appeal. He has a JD and doctorate in law from the University of Toronto and an LLM in legal theory from NYU.
John Provart is General Counsel with the National Litigation Sector of the Department of Justice Canada in Toronto. His practice focuses on administrative law, constitutional law, immigration and national security law and appellate advocacy. He has represented the Attorney General of Canada on many judicial reviews, actions, war crimes cases, security certificates and habeas corpus applications. His appeals have addressed the 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act, Charter challenges to administrative segregation (CCLA, 2019 ONCA), the legality of lengthy immigration detention (Lunyamila, 2018 FCA) and the constitutionality of partial privative clauses (Democracy Watch, 2024 FCA). He has also been counsel for the Attorney General on various Supreme Court appeals and interventions, including Vavilov, Keatley, AG Ontario v G, R v CP, Anderson, Carroll-Byrne, Yatar and Dorsey (in English), as well as Archambault, Kloubakov and SGS (in French).
Bruce Ryderis one of Canada’s most impactful constitutional scholars. Now a Professor Emerita, Professor Ryder was a member of the Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty from 1987 until 2025. Professor Ryder’s research and publications focus on a range of contemporary constitutional issues, including those related to federalism, equality rights, freedom of expression, Aboriginal rights, and Quebec secession. He has also published articles that explore the historical evolution of constitutional principles and is currently researching the history of book censorship in Canada.
Jeremy Waldron teaches legal and political philosophy at NYU School of Law. Until recently, he was also Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University (All Souls College). A prolific scholar, Waldron has written extensively on jurisprudence and political theory, including numerous books and articles on theories of rights, constitutionalism, the rule of law, democracy, property, torture, security, homelessness, and the philosophy of international law. His books include Dignity, Rank, and Rights (2012), Partly Laws Common to All Mankind: Foreign Law in American Courts (2012), The Harm of Hate Speech (2012), Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), Law and Disagreement (1999), and The Dignity of Legislation (1999). Waldron was born and educated in New Zealand, where he studied for degrees in philosophy and law at the University of Otago, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1978. He studied at Oxford University for his doctorate in legal philosophy and taught there as a fellow of Lincoln College from 1980 to 1982. He has since taught at the University of Edinburgh; the University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; and Columbia Law School. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and a fellow of the British Academy since 2011, Waldron has given many prestigious academic lectures, such as the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in 2009, the Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School in 2009, the Hamlyn Law Lectures in England in 2011, and the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 2015.