Carol Rogerson

Carol Rogerson is a professor at the Faculty of Law, where she began teaching in 1983. She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty from 1991 to 1993. She holds degrees in law from Harvard and Toronto, a master’s degree in English from Toronto, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta.

Professor Rogerson’s teaching and research interests encompass constitutional and family law. She is editor of Competing Visions of Constitutionalism: The Meech Lake Accord (with K. Swinton) and one of the co-authors of Canadian Constitutional Law. She is also the author of numerous law review articles in both the constitutional and family law areas and has frequently worked with governments on issues of family law reform. In 1985 she was honoured with a University of Toronto Teaching Award.

Prof. Rogerson was the co-author, with Professor Rollie Thompson of Dalhousie Law School, of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (Lignes directrices facultatives en matière de pensions alimentaires pour époux) for the Canadian Department of Justice.

In 2006, Prof. Rogerson was featured in a special exhibit as one of the Law School's Women Trailblazers.