Thursday, March 27, 2014
Portrait of Prof. Jutta Brunnee

Prof. Jutta Brunnée has been selected Interim Dean of the Faculty of Law from May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015, or until the appointment of a new dean. The president of the University of Toronto Meric Gertler made the announcement today after approval by the Agenda Committee of Academic Board.

Brunnée is currently associate dean of the graduate programs at the Faculty of Law. She has re-energized graduate scholarship and activity, successfully launching a new Global Professional Master of Law (an executive-style LLM in business law), developing concentrations in the LLM, and working closely with doctoral students to advance successes in their tri-council grant programs.

In the announcement, Dr. Gertler said a strong knowledge of Faculty of Law initiatives, students, faculty and the legal community in addition to demonstrated excellence in leadership and decision-making skills “make Prof. Brunnée an ideal leader to move the Faculty forward during this interim phase.”

A much-lauded and influential scholar in international environmental law, Professor Brunnée is widely published in such journals as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and the Harvard International Law Journal.

She was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 for her ground-breaking contributions in international law and environmental treaty design, serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and on the Board of the European Society of International Law, and is currently a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Legal Principles relating to Climate Change.

Before joining the University of Toronto in 2000, Brunnée taught at the law schools of the University of British Columbia and McGill University. She holds law degrees from Dalhousie University (Canada) and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Germany), and an undergraduate diploma from the Université de Dijon (France).