LLB (Toronto) 1978, BA (Toronto) 1983, MLS (Toronto) 1985, Ph.D. (U.W.O.) 1992, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980. Director of the Area of Concentration in Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Law. Professor Wilkinson, prior to her graduate studies (supported, inter alia, by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship), Professor Wilkinson practiced law in Toronto for several years. She first joined the Faculty of Law in 1991. In 1992, she became jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the then Graduate School of Library and Information Science, now the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. She retains her supervisory status for doctoral students in Library and Information Science and her supervisory status in the Graduate Program in Law, but is, since 2007, fully appointed to the Faculty of Law. She is also an Adjunct Professor at The Richard Ivey School of Business. Her thesis on "The Impact of the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1987 upon Affected Organizations", won the American Society for Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Award. Professor Wilkinson has spoken and published in the areas of intellectual property, information and media law, and information policy, including health information policy, as well as in the areas of management, professionalism and professional ethics. Professor Wilkinson is also the current editor of the Canadian Intellectual Property Review. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration: Core Faculty |
Health Law Interests LLB (Osgoode Hall) 1970, LLM (Yale) 1972, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1975. Professor Solomon joined the Faculty in 1972. He received the University of Western Ontario Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1981 and the Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations Teaching Award in 1986. He was the Associate Dean (Academic) from 1995 to 2002 and is the Director of the Exchange Programs and Joint Programs. His primary areas of teaching are tort law, healthcare law and policy, and alcohol and drug law. He has published extensively in these fields, served as a consultant to various federal and provincial agencies, and travelled widely in North America and Australia as a lecturer. Professor Solomon served on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, and is currently the National Director of Legal Policy for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
Health Law Interests LLB (Manchester) 1976, DipCompSci, (Auckland) 1995, MJur (Auckland) 1998. Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Upper Canada Professor Perry was jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Department of Computer Science, in 1999, following seven years at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. Professor Perry’s legal research remains focused on the intersection of law and technology, with particular emphasis on Open Innovation, intellectual property rights, software licensing, and the blossoming field of biotechnology law. Being jointly appointed, Professor Perry has to address platforms in both Law and Computer Science, and in the last year prelected audiences from these disciplines in India, Australia, Brasil and New Zealand. In addition to papers published in Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States, he was a regular commentator for television, radio and the newspapers in his areas of research. He is currently Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies, & Operations. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
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Biotechnology Protection & Exploitation LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Michigan), S.J.D. (Georgetown), member of the Bars of Ontario and New York, Associate Professor. Chi Carmody has taught at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law since 1999, where he teaches courses in public international law, international trade law and international business transactions. He also serves as Canadian Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center and an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for Regional and International Economic Law & Justice, NYU Law School. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
Core Faculty LLB (UWO) 1982, LLM (Osgoode) 1998. Professor Coyle joined the Faculty of Law in 2000. His primary research interests relate to aboriginal rights and dispute resolution theory. In 2004 he was commissioned by the Ipperwash Inquiry to write its background research paper on Aboriginal land claims and treaty rights in Ontario. In the past four years he has been invited twice by the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples to present submissions to the Committee on land claims reform. In 2005, together with a group of academics from across the country, he received a five-year SSHRC grant to investigate the negotiation of Aboriginal governance. His most recent publication is a chapter on power dynamics and negotiation, in Hanycz, Farrow and Zemans, eds., The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiation (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery, 2007). Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
Health Law Interests LL.B. (UWO), Ph.D. (Cambridge) Professor Chamberlain was the Gold Medalist in her graduating year from Western Law (2001). She served as a clerk to Mr. Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada, and was called to the Ontario bar in 2002. Her doctoral thesis examined the conceptual development of the modern duty of care in negligence. She was a co-editor of Emerging Issues in Tort Law (Hart Publishing, 2007) and co-author of Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts, 7th ed. (Carswell, 2007). Her primary research interests are public authority liability, legal history, private law theory, and impaired driving law. Her publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Injury Prevention, and the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
Health Law Interests B.Mus. (Memorial) 1988; M.Mus. (U. Ottawa) 1990; LL.B. (Toronto) 1999; Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School); called to the Ontario Bar 2000. Sara Seck joined the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario as an assistant professor in July 2007. In 2008 she completed a PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University on home state obligations to regulate transnational mining companies under international environmental and human rights law. Sara’s research interests include corporate social responsibility, international sustainable development law, climate change, and third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). Sara is a contributor to the work of Harvard Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights (SRSG). She has participated in several expert consultations with the SRSG, including in New York in 2006 and in Copenhagen in 2007. In 2009, Sara was awarded a SSHRC grant that will allow her to examine the scope of the home state duty to protect human rights from a TWAIL perspective. Also in 2009, she and Professor Craig Brown were awarded the BLG research fellowship in order to pursue research on climate change and insurance law. Relation to IPIT Area of Concentration:
Biotechnology Protection & Exploitation
Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Law
Faculty Associated with the IPIT Area of Concentration
Wilkinson, Margaret Ann
Solomon, Robert
Perry, Mark
Carmody, Chi
Coyle, Michael
Chamberlain, Erika
Seck, Sara
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