PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
September 12, 2006
(Toronto) - Four outstanding new scholars have joined the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and will enhance the areas of criminal law; professional ethics, development and regulated industries; corporate law and bankruptcy; and international human rights.
"We are very pleased to welcome this talented group of scholars to the law school," says Dean Mayo Moran. "The expansion of these important areas of law reflect the Faculty's commitment to the development of far-reaching social policy issues."
Michael Code will teach criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence and will work on developing new initiatives in the fields of ethics, professionalism and advocacy. He has enjoyed an impressive multi-facted career as defence counsel, Crown counsel, Assistant Deputy Attorney-General, and counsel to many public entities.
Anita Anand will bring her core expertise in corporate law to teach courses in securities and bankruptcy law. Her current research focuses on mandatory vs. voluntary corporate governance and the impact of firms' governance choices on capital acquisition.
Nehal Bhuta will teach international human rights, an area in which he boasts an impressive array of academic and practical expertise. He recently co-led a field mission in Iraq to study local attitudes towards transitional justice and reconciliation and has also served as a Consultant on Iraq to the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York.
Mariana Mota Prado will teach courses in contracts, law and development, regulated industries and administrative law. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to why some countries are rich while others are poor, how we can fight poverty and promote development in a systemic and sustainable way and the types of reforms that should be pursued to achieve this end.
These new appointments bring the teaching staff complement up to 62 and reflect the lowest faculty-student ratio in Canada and one of the best in North America (1:10).
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For more information, please contact:
Jane Kidner, Assistant Dean, External Relations, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
(416) 978-6702 or j.kidner@utoronto.ca
Complete Biographies
Michael Code
Michael Code, B.A. (Toronto) 1972, LL.B. (Toronto) 1976, LL.M. (Toronto) 1991 is one of Canada's most outstanding appellate lawyers and has argued many ground-breaking Charter cases at the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice in Ontario, and as part of his duties oversaw the lengthy Bernardo prosecution and the infamous plea bargain of Bernardo's wife and co-accused, Karla Homolka. Prof. Code also served as defence counsel in the "Air India" terrorism trial and is currently working on a project on the mega-trial. He received his call to the Bar of Ontario in 1981. From 1981 until 1991, he practised with the Toronto firm of Ruby and Edwardh where he specialized in criminal and constitutional litigation. Prof. Code has lectured in criminal law at Woodsworth College, U of T, and in evidence law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was an editor of the Canadian Rights Reporter from its inception in 1982 until 1996. In 1996, he returned to private practice with the firm of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell. He was a visiting scholar at the U of T Faculty of Law in 2005-06.
Anita Anand
Anita Anand holds an Honours B.A. in Political Studies from Queen's University, an Honours B.A. in Jurisprudence from Wadham College at Oxford University, an LL.B from Dalhousie University and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto. Since 1999, she has been at Queen's University Law School, as an Assistant Professor (1999-2003) and an Associate Professor (2003-2006) specializing in corporate and securities law. In 2005-2006, she was the recipient of a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholarship and a Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale. In 2005, Anand was also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale where she taught comparative corporate governance. She is the recipient of two research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and three awards from the Foundation for Legal Research. Her current research focuses on the governance of organizations and securities offerings. She was recently awarded a three-year grant from SSHRC for the study: "Mandatory vs. Voluntary Corporate Governance and the Impact of Firms' Governance Choices on Capital Acquisition." Prof. Anand has published articles in the University of Toronto Law Journal, McGill Law Journal, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance (forthcoming). She also serves on the board of the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization.
Nehal Bhuta
Nehal Bhuta obtained an LL.B from the University of Melbourne in 1999, an M.A. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York in 2004, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the New York University School of Law in 2005. He has spent considerable time at the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch as the Arthur C. Helton Fellow, and in 2001-2002, he advised Oxfam Australia and two East Timor human rights non-governmental organizations on international justice mechanisms for East Timor. Since 2003, he has been following the political and social justice issues in Iraq. He served as a Consultant on Iraq to the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York in 2003-2004. He also co-led a field mission to Iraq for a lengthy study that involved interviewing hundreds of Iraqis to gauge their attitudes towards transitional justice and reconciliation. In late 2005, Bhuta travelled to Iraq where he spent eight weeks observing the trial and researching the court. He has published on a variety of topics, including refugee law, international criminal law, transitional justice, indigenous rights in Australia, and the law of belligerent occupation. His written work stems from his practical engagement with various human rights issues and his social science training which has deepened his interest in political theory, heterodox economic theory and social science methods. He is a recipient of a wide range of academic awards including a Fulbright Postgraduate Student Award from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, and the World Championship Cup in the Philip C. Jessup International Mooting Competition, Washington, D.C.
Mariana Mota Prado
Originally from Brazil, where she received her LL.B. from the University of S„o Paulo in 2000, Mariana Mota Prado has spent the past six years developing an impressive and enviable expertise in law and development and regulated industries, in particular those in Brazil and the United States. Following the completion of her law degree, Marianna spent a year conducting research for the Law and Democracy Project with the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) in Brazil. She then travelled to Yale and received her LL.M. in 2002. In the summer of 2004, she worked for the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database Project at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and then returned to Yale as a fellow of the Olin Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy in 2005. She is currently Tutor-in-Law and J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, and despite living in New Haven, she has managed to continue her research for CEBRAP in numerous projects related to regulation, which include two co-edited books and an international conference held in S„o Paulo in 2004. Mariana recently received the first prize for best paper on Regulatory Agencies in the Electricity Sector from a Brazilian Research Institute (Instituto TendÍncias de Direito e Economia).
