About the Authors

• Author: Janet Walker/Lorne Sossin
• Profession: Osgoode Hall Law School, York University/Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Pages: 300-300

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Janet Walker, B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.B., D.Phil. (Oxon), is Professor of

Law and former Associate Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor

Walker specializes in domestic and international procedural law, in-

cluding conf‌lict of laws and international commercial arbitration. She

is the author of Castel & Walker, Canadian Conf‌lict of Laws and Hals-

bury’s Laws of Canada: Conf‌lict of Laws, and is the general editor of the

recent editions of The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials. Pro-

fessor Walker is the common law advisor to the Federal Courts Rules

Committee, and she was an international advisor to the American Law

Institute Project on Transnational Principles and Rules of Civil Proced-

ure. As Oxford’s 2010 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, she will develop

ways to introduce procedural law into the undergraduate curriculum.

Lorne Sossin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D. is a Professor at

the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he has been teaching

since 2002. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law

School. At the University of Toronto, he is a former Associate Dean

(2004–2007) and is the inaugural Academic Director of the Centre

for the Legal Profession. Professor Sossin’s areas of expertise include

civil litigation, administrative law, the legal profession, and the legal

process. He has written several books and numerous articles on these

subjects, including Administrative Law in Context (co-edited with Col-

leen Flood) and Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in

Canada. Professor Sossin is the recipient of several awards for teaching

and scholarship, including the 2009 OCUFA Award for Excellence in

Teaching.