The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of two new Associate Professors, who will join us as faculty members in July 2013. Professors Larissa Katz and Malcolm Thorburn are currently Associate Professors at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, and both have been praised in the highest terms by the top scholars in their respective fields for the strength of their scholarship.
Professor Larissa Katz, a property law theorist, holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta, where she won the Gold Medal in Philosophy; a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta, where she won the Gold Medal in Law; and a Master of Laws from Yale Law School. She served as a law clerk to Justice Gonthier at the Supreme Court of Canada, and worked as a litigation lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York for two years prior to entering academia. Professor Katz’s work has been published in leading journals and has sparked the interest and attention of the world’s leading property scholars. Professor Katz, who served this past term as a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, is also a gifted teacher, who in 2007 received the Queen’s Law Students Society Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Malcolm Thorburn, a scholar of criminal law theory, has been a member of the Law Faculty at Queen’s since 2003. He currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Crime, Security and Constitutionalism at Queen’s, and has been a visiting fellow at universities in Germany, France, and Australia. Professor Thorburn holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto; a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania; a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he was the recipient of the Dean Cecil Wright Key and the W.P.M. Kennedy Silver Medal; an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Teaching Fellow; and a J.S.D. degree from Columbia Law School. He also served as a law clerk to Justice Lebel at the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Thorburn’s work in criminal law theory has been the subject of much interest and praise and has been published in leading law journals including the prestigious Yale Law Journal.
Professors Katz and Thorburn will be spending their sabbatical year at Oxford next year, and will return to Queen’s in 2012-13 before officially joining us at the Faculty in July 2013. The Faculty of Law looks forward to welcoming these two extremely talented scholars.
