Annual Report 2005-2006 - Osgoode Hall Law School - York ...

Achievements
The 2005-06 year was full of significant achievements by our faculty, students, alumni and staff. Here are
some — but by no means all — of their accomplishments:
Faculty
Five new professors joined the full-time Osgoode faculty, effective July 1, 2006: Ruth Buchanan,
Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino, Trevor Farrow, Dayna Scott and James Stribopoulos.
Professor C. Kent McNeil was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship, which will
enable him to pursue full-time research and writing for two years. McNeil and Osgoode PhD student Janna
Promislow were also selected as members of a team of 39 researchers from 21 Canadian universities — said
to be Canada’s largest Aboriginal law research group — who will participate in a five-year Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) project to develop models for Aboriginal governance.
Professor Poonam Puri was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2005 — a
prestigious national award sponsored by The Caldwell Partners, the Globe and Mail, Certified
General Accountants of Canada, Air Canada and Privilege Magazine. Puri was also appointed
one of two Research Directors of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada
as well as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. She
also took on the role of Chair of Osgoode’s Standing Committee on Teaching and Learning,
which organized the inaugural Osgoode Course Design Institute, a two-day faculty workshop in
May 2006 that dealt with teaching and learning.
Professor Douglas Hay was awarded the Walter L. Gordon Fellowship for 2006-07 by York
University, which will relieve him of his teaching responsibilities for one year so that he can pursue his
research project dealing with crime, war and justice in Industrial England between 1740 and 1820.
Poonam Puri
Judy Ginsberg, Special and Retrospective Collections Librarian in the Law Library, received the Canadian
Association of Law Librarians’ Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in Law Librarianship.
Professors Janet Mosher and Mary Condon were chosen for the 2006 Virtual Scholar in Residence
Program, a joint initiative of the Law Commission of Canada and the SSHRC.
Professor Susan Drummond and her partner, technology journalist Harry Gefen, were named to the
Canadian edition of Time Magazine’s third annual list of “Canada’s Heroes.” Drummond’s new book,
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities, also won the Canadian Law and Society
Association/Association canadienne droit et société 2006 Book Prize.
Professor Robert Wai was appointed Osgoode’s new Associate Dean on January 1, 2006. He succeeds
Professor Janet Walker who has been appointed Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow within the
Hauser Global Law School Program and Institute for Judicial Administration at New York University
School of Law for the spring semester of 2007. Walker has also been appointed on an ongoing basis as
the legal advisor to the Rules Committee of Canada’s Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Adjunct Professor Paul Perell and former Osgoode Professor and Associate Dean Edward Belobaba were
appointed to the Ontario Superior Court. Justice Belobaba was also recognized for his outstanding
contribution to Osgoode Professional Development (see next page).
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