U of T Law is pleased to welcome two accomplished legal scholars, who join our faculty, effective July 1, 2024.
Assistant Professor William Sullivan
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Professor Sullivan specializes in the comparative history and theory of civil dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on the historically informed comparison of the common law and civil law traditions. He holds an AB in classics from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in classics and history from the University of Chicago, where his research focused on the history of civil procedure in the premodern civil law. Before joining U of T Law, Professor Sullivan served as a law clerk for Judge José Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, taught Roman law at Boston College Law School and practised law in the field of international commercial and investor-state arbitration in Washington, DC. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New Jersey and has also passed the bar examination to qualify as a lawyer (avocat) in France.
Assistant Professor Sabine Tsuruda
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Professor Tsuruda researches and teaches in work law, contract law, and legal theory. Her research focuses on workers’ expressive and associational rights, and the relationship between contract law and social equality. Her work has appeared in journals such as University of Toronto Law Journal, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Legal Theory, and Cornell Law Review. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as The Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Oxford University Press) and Working as Equals (Oxford University Press).
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, Professor Tsuruda was an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. She graduated from the Joint JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at UCLA, where she studied as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and served as a Senior Editor of UCLA Law Review. She also holds a BA and MA from Stanford University.
