Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino joined the Osgoode Hall Law School faculty in 2006 and brings creativity and passion to her role as Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode. As part of IP Osgoode, she is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue (www.iposgoode.ca), the first IP law blog of its kind, and Founder and Director of Osgoode’s IP Intensive. Before her appointment at Osgoode, she was recruited by the federal government’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders (RPL) program for the Department of Canadian Heritage and worked at the Copyright Policy Branch. She completed her doctoral and masters studies with distinction at the University of Oxford where she was a Lecturer in Law and the recipient of various scholarships including a SSHRC fellowship. She is the Deputy Editor for the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ) and previously was an associate at a large firm in Toronto. Her research interests in the intellectual property law field are wide-ranging and she is highly sought after as a public speaker and consultant. She is regularly called on by foreign and Canadian federal and provincial governments and in December 2010 testified before Parliament’s Legislative Committee on Canada’s ongoing copyright reform initiatives. She publishes on a range of issues and her two books, Copyright, Contract, Creators: New Media, New Rules (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2010), and The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (edited with Catherine Ng and Lionel Bently) (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2010) are widely available. In 2011, the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario honoured Professor D’Agostino as one of 34 Canadians in the book The Next Generation, Made in Canada: The Italian Way.

Professor Craig’s research interests are in domestic, comparative and international intellectual property law and policy, with an emphasis upon public interest theory and the public domain. A recipient of the Osgoode Excellence in Teaching Award, she teaches courses in copyright, digital copyright, trademarks, international intellectual property, and intellectual property theory. Professor Craig received her LL.B with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, specializing in legal theory, international law, and contract law. She spent one year of her law degree at McGill University in Montreal. Professor Craig has an LL.M from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of the Centre for Innovation Law and Polic. Her dissertation, Putting the Community in Communication: Re-Imagining the Copyright Model, employs critical legal and social theory to examine the central assumptions of copyright doctrine. In the 2004-05 academic year, Dr. Craig was awarded the David Watson Memorial Award for the most significant contribution to legal scholarship for an article that appeared in Volume 28 of the Queen’s Law Journal.

Following five years of practice in civil litigation specializing in Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law, Professor Mgbeoji enrolled in the graduate program of Dalhousie University where he graduated, summa cum laude, with an LLM in 1999. A recipient of the Governor-General’s Gold Medal for the highest academic standing at the graduate level in Dalhousie University, he undertook his doctoral research in Patent Law, graduating, summa cum laude, in 2001. Throughout his academic career, Professor Mgbeoji has won numerous academic awards, scholarships and fellowships including the Killam Scholarship and the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft Award. His teaching and research interests are in Patent Law, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, International Law on the Use of Force, International Environmental Law, Biotechnology and Law, Comparative Intellectual Property Law, Indigenous Peoples, and Anthropology. Professor Mgbeoji is the author of two books – Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order and Patents and Indigenous Peoples – and he is the co-author of Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues. Prior to joining Osgoode in July 2003, he taught at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.

David Vaver is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law in the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. He was previously a faculty member at Osgoode (1985-98), UBC (1978-85), and the University of Auckland (1972-78). He rejoined Osgoode in 2009.

Professor Vaver has written extensively on national and international intellectual property law and policy. His Canadian writings include Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks (2nd ed. 2011), Copyright Law (2000), and (as co-editor) Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law (2009), all published by Irwin Law. He also recently edited a five-volume compilation, Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law (Routledge, 2006).

He is an associate member of the Chambers of Michael Silverleaf QC (11 South Square, Gray’s Inn) and was, until recently, a board member of the Intellectual Property Institute (London), and a member of the UK government’s IP Advisory Committee (2001-05). His inaugural Oxford address Intellectual Property Law: The State of the Art appears at (2000) 116 LQR 621.

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Michelle brings enthusiasm and determination to help propel IP Osgoode to new levels of success and achieve its objectives in her role as IP Coordinator.    Prior to joining IP Osgoode, Michelle practiced IP law at MBM Intellectual Property Law LLP, an IP boutique law firm in Ottawa.  She received her MSc. and Hons. BSc. in molecular biology and genetics from the University of Toronto, and her LL.B. from the University of Windsor.  Her interests include issues relating to IP transfer and acquisition, IP commercialization, biotechnology and patent law reform.

Rosemary J. Coombe is a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto, where she teaches in the Communications and Culture Joint PhD/MA Programme, and is cross-appointed to the Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law Graduate Programme, and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. Prior to being awarded one of the country’s first Canada Research Chairs she was Full Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She holds a J.S.D. from Stanford University with a Minor in Anthropology and publishes widely in anthropology and political and legal theory.

Simon Fodden taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School for 30 years. He took early retirement in order to devote more time to his interest in information technology, particularly as it affects law and law teaching. He founded the Canadian cooperative law blog Slaw (http://www.slaw.ca) and created The Court blog (http://www.thecourt.ca) for Osgoode.

Professor Gilmour joined Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty in 1990, after practising civil litigation and administrative law. She teaches Health Law, Legal Governance of Health Care, Torts and Disability and the Law in the LLB program. She developed and is Director of Osgoode’s part-time LLM program specializing in Health Law, and teaches graduate courses on Professional Governance, and Legal Frameworks of the Healthcare System. She is past Director of Osgoode’s Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, and past Associate and Acting Director of York University’s Centre for Health Studies. Professor Gilmour’s research and publications in health law span some of the most debated issues in contemporary society. She recently completed a major study on the effects of tort law (negligence) on efforts to improve patient safety and reduce medical error. Current research projects include an examination of legal and ethical issues in decision-making about health care for children, and a study of the interrelationship of disability, gender, law and inequality. She has acted as a consultant to Health Canada, and completed a study for the Ontario Law Reform Commission on assisted suicide, euthanasia, and foregoing life-sustaining treatment. She has also completed studies on health care restructuring and privatization, professional regulation of complementary and alternative medicine, and the interrelation of poverty, health and access to justice.

Roxanne Mykitiuk is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School where she teaches in the areas of Law and Disability, Family Law, and Health Law and Bioethics. From 1990-92 she was Senior Legal Researcher for the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. In 2002, she was appointed to the Ontario Advisory Committee on Genetics. In 2009, she was Scholar in Residence at the Law Commission of Ontario working on their project on reforming the law as it relates to people with disabilities

Professor Mykitiuk is the author or co-author of a number of articles and book chapters investigating legal, ethical and social implications of new reproductive technologies and the new genetics and the legal construction and regulation of embodiment and disability. She holds a number of current research grants funded by SSHRC, CIHR and Genome Canada.

Craig M. Scott joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 following a term as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to joining Osgoode, he was a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, from 1989 to 2001. From 2001 to 2004, Professor Scott was Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies). He is currently Director of the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security.Professor Scott was a founding Board member of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS), 2006-2008.  He spearheaded the creation in 2006 of the Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS), consisting of Osgoode/York, New York University, London School of Economics, University of Cape Town, University of Melbourne, Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), and the Université de Montréal.  He was the Academic Director of the ATLAS inaugural doctoral-student academy, or Agora (July 7-25, 2008): www.ATLASdoctorate.com.

He received the 2008 York University International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Internationalization.  Throughout 2008-09, he will make a series of short-term visits to the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, as a European Union Erasmus Mundus Scholar.  He is series editor of Hart Monographs on Transnational and International Law (4MB pdf).  With Osgoode colleagues, he is an editor of the forthcoming Journal of Transnational Legal Theory.

Rex Shoyama was a Visiting Professor and the Assistant Director of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology program.  Prior to joining Osgoode, he was in-house legal counsel for Yahoo! Canada.  He has also practised IP law at the law firm of Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh.  Rex received his BASc in Systems Design Engineering (with a minor in Cognitive Science) from the University of Waterloo and received his JD from the University of Toronto.  His interests include legal issues relating to the Internet, information technologies, and the intersection of law and technology.