Robert Sharpe

Robert Sharpe was a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1999 to 2020 and is currently Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the Faculty of Law. He graduated with the degrees of B.A. (University of Western Ontario, 1966), LL.B. (University of Toronto, 1970) and D.Phil. (Oxford University, 1974). He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1974 and practised with MacKinnon McTaggart (later McTaggart Potts) in the area of civil litigation. He was a professor 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 and served in that capacity until his appointment as member of the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) (now the Superior Court of Justice), in 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991 and as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023. Robert Sharpe has written several books on law and Canadian legal history. His most recent book is Good Judgment: Making Judicial Decisions (2018).