Judith McCormack

Adjunct Moot Advisor

Judith McCormack, LL.B (Osgoode) 1976, LL.M (Osgoode) 1986, LSM, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978. She practiced labour and human rights law, first as a partner in private practice, and then as inhouse counsel and later director of legal services for the Ontario Nurses' Association.; In 1986, she was appointed to the Ontario Labour Relations Board as a Vice-Chair. In 1992 she became the Chair of the Board and in 1998, a partner in the firm of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell.; She has been a litigator, a mediator, an adjudicator, and a consensual arbitrator, and has spoken widely in the areas of labour law, administrative law and alternative dispute resolution. She is currently the Executive Director of Downtown Legal Services, the Faculty's community legal clinic. Her publications include "Labouring the Canadian Millennium:; Writings on Work and Workers, History and Historiography" (2002) 9 C.L.E.L.J 185 (book review), "Comment on "The Politicization of the Ontario Labour Relations Framework in the 1990's" (2000) 7 C.L.E.L.J. 325, "The Price of Administrative Justice" (1998) 6 C.L.E.L.J. 1, "Alternative Dispute Resolution in Labour Relations:; A Tale of Two Provinces" in Rethinking Disputes: The Mediation Alternative (with Stan Lanyon) (1997), "Shopping for a Remedy: The Wal-Mart Case" (1997) 5 C.L.E.L.J. 341, "Nimble Justice: Revitalizing Administrative Tribunals in a Climate of Rapid Change" (1995) Sask.L..Review 385 (The Heald Lecture), "First Contract Arbitration in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Ontario" (1991) L.A.Y 241, and "Half a Loaf; Part-Time Work In Ontario" (1982) C.I.R.A. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Social Policy. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize and the Journey Prize, and most recently appeared in the Harvard Review. In 2003, she was awarded the Law Society Medal for an outstanding lawyer whose service is in accordance with the highest ideals of the profession.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />