Media Requests

In addition to our professors available for media, listed below, see our current adjunct lecturers and their area(s) of expertise (by course).

Please reach out directly to check availability. Due to the research and teaching commitments of our faculty members, response times may vary. For further assistance/U of T expertise in a related area, please contact the U of T Media Relations hotline at 416-978-0100 or media.relations@utoronto.ca.

Aboriginal Law

  • Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) – co-author of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

Administrative Law

  • University Professor of Law & Philosophy David Dyzenhaus – rule of law, transitional justice, judicial independence

Animal Law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and law

  • Professor Abdi Aidid – co-author of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
  • Professor Benjamin Alarie – co-author of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better

Business Law

  • Professor Mohammad Fadel
  • Professor Ariel Katz – competition law, intellectual property
  • Professor Brian Langille – labour policy, contract law, and issues of international economic integration
  • Professor Jeffrey G. Macintosh – corporate law, corporate finance, securities regulation, venture capital, Canadian capital markets, financing small tech-based firms, initial public offerings, angel investing
  • Professor Catherine Valcke – contract law, contact theory, Quebec law, comparative private law

Civil Law

  • Professor Catherine Valcke – contract law, contact theory, Quebec law, comparative private law

Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law

Constitutional Law

Contract Law

  • Professor Brian Langille – labour law, international labour law, labour policy, contract law, and issues of international economic integration
  • Professor Catherine Valcke – contract law, contact theory, Quebec law, comparative private law

Criminal Law

Environmental Law

  • Dean & University Professor Jutta Brunnée – International environmental law (e.g. Paris Agreement)
  • Professor Andrew Green – author of Picking up the Slack: Law, Institutions and Canadian Climate Policy

Election Law

  • Professor Yasmin Dawood – election law (Canada & U.S.), constitutional law, right to vote, freedom of expression, law and politics, role of courts

Family Law

Health Law

  • Professor Emeritus Bernard Dickens – medical or health care ethics; expert witness regarding unethical research on mental health patients; founding Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of Health Canada
  • Professor Trudo Lemmens – Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID); Ethical issues; Health and Human Rights; Health law and policy

Housing Law

Human Rights

Indigenous Law

  • Professor John Borrows, The Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law

Intellectual Property

  • Professor Ariel Katz – innovation policy, intellectual property and e-commerce

International Law

  • Dean & University Professor Jutta Brunnée – Public international law (e.g. inter-state use of force); UN collective security system
  • Professor Brian Langille– international labour law, issues of international economic integration

Islamic Law

Judiciary

  • University Professor of Law & Philosophy David Dyzenhaus – rule of law, judicial independence
  • Professor Albert Yoon – legal ethics; the judiciary; legal education

Labour Law

  • Professor Brian Langille – labour law, international labour law, labour policy, contract law, and issues of international economic integration

Law and technology

  • Professor Benjamin Alarie – co-author of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
  • Professor Albert Yoon – legal tech

Property Law

Sexuality and Law

  • Professor Brenda Cossman – 2SLGBTQ+ rights, author of The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era