Founding Director

The Honourable Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino is the Founding Director of the IP Innovation Clinic. She was appointed Judge of the Federal Court, and ex officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal, on April 29, 2026. 

Prior to her appointment, she was Professor of Law and York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Justice D’Agostino is a lawyer, public speaker, board director and internationally-recognized scholar specializing in copyright law, intellectual property (IP), artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies, innovation law, and policy. 

She was the Associate Vice-President Research (AVPR) at York University from April 2025-April 2026 and served as the Scientific Director of Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society (a $318 million Canada First Research Excellence Fund [CFREF] funded program led by York in collaboration with Queen's University) from 2024-2026.  

She is also the Founding Director of the IP Law and Technology Program (IP Intensive Program) and Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program at Osgoode Hall Law School as well as Editor-in-Chief of Intellectual Property Journal.  

Justice D'Agostino was the inaugural Co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Society (CAIS) at York University, and the Founding Director of the globally-recognized IP Osgoode and the award-winning IPilogue. 

Justice D’Agostino also served as the Chair of the Board of the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)—the first woman to be appointed in the role—a Board Member at the Canadian Italian Business and Professionals Association (CIBPA), Board Director at Alectra Utilities, and the Founding Chair of the GRE&T Centre Advisory Committee, which supports as the company’s innovation hub. She was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), a non-partisan, independent think tank, where her work focused on IP and the innovation ecosystem in Canada. 

Justice D’Agostino holds a MSt and DPhil (University of Oxford) with distinction in copyright law, where she was a lecturer in law and the recipient of various scholarships, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship, as well as an LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School), an HonBA, summa cum laude, in English and Political Science and a specialization in French (York University), holds an ICD.D from the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario (2001 call). 

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