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Ed Morgan is a Professor of Law. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1988. He teaches in the fields of international law and constitutional law. He has a B.A. from Northwestern University, an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He was a law clerk to Madam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984-85. He started teaching in 1986, and from 1989-1997 practiced civil litigation at Davies, Ward & Beck in Toronto. He has written International Law and the Canadian Courts (Carswell, 1990) and The Aesthetics of International Law (U. Toronto Press, 2007). He has also written numerous law journal articles, case comments, and book chapters dealing with international and constitutional law issues. He is a regular contributor to national newspapers on issues of international and constitutional law. He is a co-director of the joint degree program in Law and Literature. From 1998 to 2004 he was legal counsel to Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and from 2004 to 2007 he was national president of CJC.
Professor Morgan has appeared at all levels of Canadian courts as well as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations, and has provided expert evidence on international law to numerous U.S. federal and state courts in jurisdictional disputes and conflict of laws cases. He has represented Canadian Jewish Congress, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Assembly of First Nations, PEN Canada, Hasbara Fellowships, the Writers' Union of Canada, the Epilepsy Association of Toronto, NORML Canada, the African Canadian Legal Clinic and other public interest groups in numerous constitutional, and public interest appeals, and has argued sovereign immunity cases in the Ontario courts, the U.S. federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of and in challenges to a number of national governments. He has testified on matters of law reform, national security, and foreign affairs before Parliamentary committees in both the House of Commons and the Senate. In addition to courses this year at the law school (below), Prof. Morgan has taught International Law in the Political Science department and has taught Legal Dimensions of the Middle East Conflict in the law school as well as in Political Science.
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