The refugee decision-making system in Canada is flawed, Osgoode Professor Sean Rehaag tells lawyer Lorne Waldman ’77. Everything comes down to the luck of the draw. People who should be recognized as refugees are not being recognized as refugees. What’s happening is “a form of bias,” Rehaag says.
April 15, 2021

4 Questions For:  Professor Sean Rehaag on the Luck of the Draw

Osgoode Professor Poonam Puri speaks with JD/MBA Class of 1990 graduate and banking industry veteran James O’Sullivan about the Digital Loonie. She and three colleagues from the University of Toronto recently responded to a Bank of Canada call for proposals from academic teams on what a Central Bank Digital Currency framework could look like in Canada.
May 27, 2021

4 Questions For: Professor Poonam Puri on What a Digital Loonie Could Look Like in Canada

Leading labour lawyer, Steven Barrett '84 interviews Osgoode Professor Valerio De Stefano on the rise in electronic monitoring of employees – a phenomenon known as algorithmic management.
March 10, 2022

4 Questions For: Professor Valerio De Stefano on Electronic Monitoring of Employees

Pandemics, wars, climate change! We’re living in a world today increasingly shaped by crisis. In this podcast, Osgoode Hall Law School professors François Tanguay-Renaud and Saptarishi Bandopadhyay discuss the impact of disasters on the political and legal landscape.
April 8, 2022

4 Questions For: Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay on Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State

Dean Mary Condon speaks with Kyle Elliott, Counsel, Diversity and Inclusion at Blakes about equity, diversity and inclusion in the legal education and the profession.  

Kyle graduated from Osgoode in 2016 where he acted as the President of the Black Law Students' Association (BLSA Osgoode), before serving as the National Articling Representative for the Black Law Students’ Association of Canada (BLSA Canada). At Blakes, Kyle works to develop the Firm’s equity, diversity and inclusion-focused programs. He also leads the Firm’s diversity and inclusion outreach initiatives, which are designed to attract students from diverse backgrounds to the practice of business law. Kyle is an active member of the legal community and serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers (CABL).

4 Questions For: Kyle Elliott on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Sector

Loretta Merritt ’85, '90(LLM), one of Canada’s foremost lawyers specializing in sexual abuse and harassment cases, speaks with Osgoode Professor Janet Mosher about her trauma-informed approach to clients, confidentiality concerns and trends in damages.

4 Questions For: Loretta Merritt on Sexual Abuse and the Law

Beyond Law is a podcast on books that discuss problems of law and regulation through the lens of public policy and social science. 

In this episode, the hosts, Richard Haigh and Dan Priel, talk with Benjamin van Rooij about his latest book “The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse”.

"The Behavioral Code" by Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine

Dan and Richard discuss Osgoode School Professor Valerio De Stefano's timely book about the world of AI, algorithms and online platforms and their ever-increasing impact on the world of work. Co-authored with Antonio Aloisi, "Your Boss is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour" will trouble anyone who cares about the impact of technology on work and how it needs to be regulated.

"Your Boss is an Algorithm" by Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano

Dan and Richard are joined by University of Oxford Associate Professor Zeynep Pamuk to discuss her recent book, Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society. The book's grand theme is captured in the two epigraphs found at the beginning: "It would not only be foolish but downright irresponsible to accept the judgment of scientists and physicians without further examination" and "the rational layman will recognize that in matters about which there is good reason to believe there is expert opinion, he ought not to make up his own mind." Zeynep provides a robust critique, and ideas for solutions, on how the longstanding tension between expert knowledge and democratic decision making can be resolved, using very topical examples such as the recent global pandemic.

Link to book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691218939/politics-and-expertise

"Politics and Expertise" by Zeynep Pamuk

Osgoode Professors Richard Haigh and Dan Priel are joined by Professor Travis Dumsday of Concordia University of Edmonton in a wide-ranging discussion about his book, Assisted Suicide in Canada: Moral, Legal and Policy Considerations. The book takes on the very complicated legal, moral, philosophical and ethical issues surrounding medical assistance in dying, particularly in Canada. Travis discusses the legal cases leading to Parliament's decision to legalize assisted suicide, the ethical quandaries provoked by that decision and where it may lead to.

"Assisted Suicide in Canada" by Travis Dumsday

Osgoode Alumni Board Co-President, Patricia Olasker '77, a partner at Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg LLP, has four questions for Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Mary Condon about the challenges and opportunities facing law schools today.  October 21, 2019

4 Questions For: Dean Mary Condon About the Challenges Facing Legal Education

Professor Emeritus Harry Arthurs discusses his memoir, Connecting the Dots – The Life of an Academic Lawyer, with Professor Philip Girard.
December 2, 2019

4 Questions For: Professor Emeritus Harry Arthurs About his Life as an Academic Lawyer

Nye Thomas, Executive Director of the Law Commission of Ontario, and Carole Piovesan ’09 of INQ Data Law discuss AI and the law.
November 1, 2019

4 Questions For: Carole Piovesan ’09 regarding AI and the Law

Benjamin Berger, Professor & York Research Chair in Pluralism and Public Law, questions Professor Joan Gilmour, one of Canada’s foremost experts on health law as well as disability and the law, about our medical assistance in dying laws.
January 7, 2020

4 Questions For: Professor Joan Gilmour on Medical Assistance in Dying Laws

Anil Kapoor ’86 of Kapoor Barristers interviews Osgoode Professor Emerita Jamie Cameron on the subject of Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) offenders and the role of the Ontario Review Board in ensuring public safety and the offender’s rehabilitation.
February 11, 2020

4 Questions For: Professor Emerita Jamie Cameron on Not Criminally Responsible Offenders

Osgoode Professor Cynthia Williams has four questions for alumna Dianne Saxe ’74, ’91 LLM, ’91 PhD, one of Canada’s most respected environmental lawyers, on the climate change crisis.
April 22, 2020

4 Questions For:  Dianne Saxe '74, '91 (PhD) on the Climate Change Crisis

Catherine Fisk's lecture “Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies”, a forthcoming article in the Emory Law Journal, challenges the line-drawing which has led to the erasure of the labor movement from the field’s conception of a social movement, and offers new theories of the role law plays in social movement activism.
October 6, 2020

Lecture | Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies with Catherine Fisk

Welcome to Osgoode’s first-ever Virtual Pierre Genest Panel Discussion.  We have invited a panel to discuss the pre-recorded talk by our Pierre Genest visitor, Catherine Fisk, titled “Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies”.  This talk is also a forthcoming paper in the Emory Law Journal, and challenges the line-drawing which has led to the erasure of the labor movement from the field’s conception of a social movement, and offers new theories of the role law plays in social movement activism.  In our panel is Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School in Australia, Joshua Mandryk, Associate at Toronto’s Goldblatt Partners, and Barry Eidlin is a Comparative Historical Sociologist and Assistant Professor in McGill’s Sociology department.
October 6, 2020

Panel | Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies with Catherine Fisk

Osgoode Professor Adam Parachin, a charity law expert, and Bob Wyatt, Executive Director of the Muttart Foundation, discuss the importance of maintaining a distinction between charity and government.  
November 24, 2020

4 Questions For: Professor Adam Parachin on the Role of Charities

Dayna Scott, Associate Professor at Osgoode and York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, talks with Priyanka Vittal, counsel at Greenpeace and an adjunct professor at Osgoode, about the impacts of environmental racism in Canada and what can be done about it.
December 4, 2020

4 Questions For: Professor Dayna Scott on Environmental Racism in Canada

Osgoode Professor Eric Tucker, a labour law expert, discusses the workplace obligations of employers and employees during the pandemic with Professor Sara Slinn, Associate Dean, Research and Institutional Relations at Osgoode.
February 18, 2021

4 Questions For: Prof. Eric Tucker on Employer & Employee Workplace Obligations During the Pandemic

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