About the Authors

AuthorJanet Walker/Lorne Sossin
ProfessionOsgoode Hall Law School, York University/Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Pages300-300
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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.

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