KEYNOTES
SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
- Dream Weavers
- Alan Bernstein
- Howard Blas
- Leamore Cohen
- William Daroff
- Dr. Paula David
- Warren Greenstone
- Bryan Keshen
- Claudia Koby
- Lauren Korzinstone
- Alan Kriss
- Dr. Jeff Lichtman
- Donna Mackay
- Ari Margolis
- Liviya Mendelsohn
- Mark Palmer
- Connie Putterman
- Joanna Samuels
- Avital Sandler-Loeff
- Noah Shack
- Nancy Singer
- Beth Steinberg
- Karina Szulc
- Sandy Stemp
- Gayle Waxman
- Dr. Linda Zaretsky
ENTERTAINMENT
Lorne Sossin
Professor & Dean, B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Exeter), Ph.D. (Toronto), LL.B. (Osgoode), LL.M., J.S.D (Columbia), of the Bar of Ontario
Lorne Sossin is a Professor and Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University and, since 2015, York’s Presidential Advisor on Community Engagement. Prior to this appointment in 2010, Professor Sossin was a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto (2002-2010). He is a former Associate Dean of the University of Toronto (2004-2007) and served as the inaugural Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession (2008-2010). His teaching interests span administrative and constitutional law, the regulation of professions, civil litigation, public policy and the judicial process. In 2012 and 2013, Dean Sossin was chosen by Canadian Lawyer as one of the 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Dean Sossin is also the recipient of the 2012 David Mundell Medal for excellence in Legal Writing.
Dean Sossin was a law clerk to former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Associate in Law at Columbia Law School and a former litigation lawyer with the firm of Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais). He holds doctorates from the University of Toronto in Political Science and from Columbia University in Law.
Dean Sossin has published numerous books, journal articles, reviews and essays, including Administrative Law in Context 2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2013) (co-edited with Colleen Flood); Middle Income Access to Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) (co-edited with Tony Duggan and Michael Trebilcock); Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada 2md ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2012); The Future of Judicial Independence (Toronto: Irwin, 2010) (co-edited with Adam Dodek); Civil Litigation (Toronto: Irwin 2010) (co-authored with Janet Walker); and Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009) (co-edited with Peter Russell).
Dean Sossin served as Research Director for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Task Force on the Independence of the Bar, and has written commissioned papers for the Gomery Inquiry, the Ipperwash Inquiry, the Goudge Inquiry, Canadian Judicial Council, the Privy Council Office, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. He also serves on the Boards of the Osgoode Society, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, the Law Commission of Ontario, and is Vice Chair of the Ontario Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and Health Services Appeal and Review Board. Dean Sossin served as Interim Integrity Commissioner for the City of Toronto in 2008-2009, and is currently the Open Meeting Investigator for the City of Toronto. In July 2015, Dean Sossin became Chair of the Board of Reena.