Albert, Richard
Intensive Course: How Constitutions Change (LAW704H1)
Richard Albert studies constitutional amendment from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives. He is co-editor of a new series on comparative constitutional law at Oxford University Press and also a co-editor of the "Comparative Constitutional Change" series at Routledge. Since 2014, he is Book Reviews Editor for the American Journal of Comparative Law, which awarded him the Hessel Yntema Prize for "the most outstanding article" on comparative law by a scholar under 40. He is currently completing a monograph on constitutional amendment to be published by Oxford University Press.
His edited volumes include "The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment” (Oxford: Hart 2017), "Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution" (Cambridge University Press 2017) and "The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions" (Oxford University Press 2018). A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada and a founding co-editor of I-CONnect, he is a graduate of Yale, Harvard and Oxford. Richard Albert is currently a full professor at Boston College Law School, and he has been appointed to the visiting faculty at Yale University, Externado University of Colombia and the Interdisciplinary Center (Herzliya) in Israel. In January 2018, he will join the law faculty at the University of Texas at Austin as a full professor.
Endicott, Timothy
Intensive Course: Interpretation (LAW707H1)
Timothy Endicott is a Professor of Legal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow in Law at Balliol College. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law in Oxford for two terms, from October 2007 to September 2015.
After graduating with the AB in Classics and English summa cum laude from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in Law in Oxford in 1998. He held a Cátedra de Excelencia at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid during 2016. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies since 2015. He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), and Administrative Law, 3rd ed (OUP 2015).
Fisher, Talia
Intensive Course: The Adversarial Trial: Theory and Critique (LAW726H1)
Talia Fisher is a Professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty. Since joining the Faculty in 2004 she has written on Evidence Law, private supply of legal institutions, empirical analysis of law, and probabilistic applications in procedural law. She has previously served as the Faculty’s Vice Dean for Research (2015-2017) and as the Director of The Taubenschlag Institute of Criminal Law (2009-2013). Fisher has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. in law from the Hebrew University, and is a member of the Young Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Hildebrandt, Mireille
Intensive Course: Data-Driven Law (LAW703H1)
Mireille Hildebrandt is a tenured Research Professor on 'Interfacing Law and Technology' at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), appointed by the VUB Research Council. She works with the research group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology. She also holds the part-time Chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests concern the implications of automated decisions, machine learning and mindless artificial agency for law and the rule of law in constitutional democracies. Her most recent book is "Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law” (Edward Elgar 2015), her most recent edited volume is “Information, freedom and property” (Routledge 2016) and her most recent article is The Virtuality of Territorial Borders, Utrecht Law Review (2017), see her website at Berkeley Press: https://works.bepress.com/mireille_hildebrandt/ .
Li, Zhaojie (James)
Intensive Course: An Introduction to the Contemporary Chinese Legal System (LAW265H1)
Professor Li Zhaojie (James Li) received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China. Prior to joining the faculty at Tsinghua Law School, he taught in the Department of Law at Peking University. He served as Co-Chief Editor for the Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law. He is widely published in both the English and Chinese languages.
Penner, James
Intensive Course: Property Theory (LAW702H1)
James Penner took an honours B.Sc in Genetics at the University of Western Ontario in 1985, an LL.B at the University of Toronto in 1988 and completed his D.Phil at University College, Oxford in 1992. His thesis formed the basis of The Idea of Property in Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) which won the 1997 Society of Public Teachers of Law First Prize for Outstanding Scholarship by a Younger Scholar (now renamed the 'SLS Peter Birks Prize').
Since 1992 he has taught law at Brunel University, the London School of Economics, King's College London, and most recently from 2008 until 2013 as Professor of Property Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, serving from 2011 to 2013 as Head of Department. He has established himself as one of the world's leading experts in the philosophy of property and the law of trusts, and writes more widely in the areas of private law and the philosophy of law. He has been a visiting professor in China, Canada, Belgium, and Australia.
Sharpe, Robert J.
Intensive Course: Good Judgment: The Role of an Appellate Judge (LAW711H1)
Robert Sharpe is a member of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto from 1976 to 1988 and served under Chief Justice Brian Dickson as Executive Legal Officer at the Supreme Court Canada from 1988 to 1990. Robert Sharpe was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in 1990, to the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in 1995 and to the Court of Appeal in 1999. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1991, Senior Fellow of Massey College, and was awarded the Mundell Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Law and Letters in 2009. In 2011, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor, Oxford University and received honorary doctorate degrees from the Law Society of Upper Canada and the University of Windsor. His publications include Brian Dickson: A Judge’s Journey (with Kent Roach) (2003), The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (with Kent Roach) (5th ed. 2013), The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (with Patricia McMahon) (2007) and The Lazier Murder, Prince Edward County, 1884 (2011).
Yankah, Ekow
Intensive Course: "Black Lives Matter" and Criminal Procedure: Race and the Fourth Amendment (LAW700H1)
Professor Ekow Yankah hold degrees from the University of Michigan, Columbia Law School and Oxford University. His work focuses on questions of criminal theory and punishment and political theory and particularly, questions political obligation and its interaction with justifications of punishment. His work has appeared in law review articles and peer reviewed legal theory journals and books. He has been a visiting fellow at the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies as well as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member at the University of Toronto School of Law.
His interests have also led him to develop expertise in voting rights and election law and he serves as the co-chair of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council, the voting rights arm of the New York Democratic party and the coordinating arm of the DNC believed to be the largest voting rights group in the country. He sits on the Board of the Innocence Project, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and has served on the Board of the American Constitution Society (NY Chapter). He has written for publications spanning The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Huffington Post, among others and has been a regular commentator on criminal law issues on television and radio including MSNBC, BBC and BBC International.
