About the Author

• Author: Suzanne Chiodo
• Pages: 274-274

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Suzanne Chiodo is a lecturer in law at Oriel College, Oxford University,

where she is completing her doctorate in the area of class actions. She

also obtained her undergraduate degree in modern history from Oxford.

Before beginning her doctorate in October 2017, Suzanne was a class

actions lawyer at Rochon Genova LLP in Toronto. She completed her

LLM at Osgoode Hall Law School in December 2016, supported by fund-

ing from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

and numerous other sources. Her book, The Class Actions Controversy,

arises from her LLM thesis on the history of the Ontario Class Proceed-

ings Act.

Suzanne has taught courses on civil procedure at Osgoode Hall Law

School and has presented papers to the Osgoode Society for Canadian

Legal History, the Ontario Bar Association, and the Ontario Human

Rights Commission. In addition, she has published numerous papers on

class actions and tort law.

Suzanne completed her articles of clerkship for the Honourable Mr

Justice O’Reilly at the Federal Court. She obtained her JD with distinction

at Western Law in Ontario, where she spearheaded a successful ef‌fort to

establish the school’s f‌irst student-run academic journal. She won numer-

ous awards and scholarships for academic excellence, and also received the

Law Society of Upper Canada prize for graduating near the top of her class.

When Suzanne is not teaching in Oxford, she lives in Toronto with

her husband Joe, where she pursues her love for rock and blues music by

singing and playing harmonica in a band. Her favourite day of the week

is Sunday, when she attends Little Trinity Anglican Church before eating

delicious food made by her Italian-Canadian family.