Faculty Liasons: University of Ottawa

Tony VanDuzer

B.A. (Queen's), LL.B., LL.M. (Col.), of the Bar of Ontario

Associate Professor and Vice Dean (Research)

Common Law

University of Ottawa

Tony VanDuzer graduated from the Common Law Section in 1982. He is currently an Associate Professor and a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies. Previously, he was the Vice Dean of the English Program (1994-5) and Vice Dean (Research) of the Section (2006-8). Prior to joining the Section in 1989, he practised corporate and commercial law in Toronto with Fasken & Calvin (now Fasken Martineau).

At the law school Professor VanDuzer teaches a number of upper year courses on domestic and international business law as well as acting as the faculty advisor to the Section's teams participating in the Canadian Corporate/Securities Law Moot and the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Outside the law school, Professor VanDuzer has taught more than 20 short courses to officials from Canadian government departments and more than a dozen foreign states on various trade and investment issues both in Canada and abroad. He has also taught in the University of Ottawa Executive MBA program at the Queen’s University International Studies Centre and the Faculty of Law at the University of Muenster in Germany.

Professor VanDuzer’s main area of interest is international trade and investment. He was a member of the Academic Advisory Council to the Deputy Minister for International Trade and has participated in technical assistance projects relating to business and trade law involving a number of transition and developing economies, including Armenia, Bangladesh, China, El Salvador, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Vietnam. He has acted as an outside legal assessor for the Central and East European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association in reviewing a draft Foreign Trade Law for Bosnia-Herzegovina and a draft Competition Protection Act for Bulgaria. He worked as a foreign expert advising on the development of a new foreign trade law for Russia which was passed by the Duma in 2005. He is currently working with Professor Simons and Professor Mayeda developing a new model bilateral investment treaty based on sustainable development principles for the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Professor VanDuzer's publications include books on corporate law and merger notification under the Competition Act as well as articles on various business and trade law issues. With Professor Gilles Paquet of the School of Management, Professor VanDuzer wrote Anticompetitive Pricing Practices and the Competition Act: Theory, Law and Practice, a major study for the Competition Bureau published in 1999. Many of Professor VanDuzer's recommendations for reform of the Competition Act were included in a bill amending the act in 2009. In 2005, his study for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Health, Education and Social Services in Canada: The Impact of the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services was tabled before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Professor VanDuzer is the chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL), a creation of the Faculty of Law and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton as well as an Adjunct Research Professor at NPSIA.

Tony VanDuzer's CV

Nicole LaViolette
Vice-Dean French Program; Associate Professor
B.A. (Honours)(Carleton), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Cantab.), of the Ontario Bar (2002)

Nicole LaViolette is Associate Professor in the French Common Program of Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She teaches public international law, international humanitarian law, conflicts of laws and family law. Prof. LaViolette has authored several articles and studies relating to refugee law, war crimes, international human rights and the rights of sexual minorities. She has also devoted part of her scholarly work to family law issues. Since 2003, she has participated in a NACLE teaching project that allows Mexican, American and Canadian law students to work collaboratively on cross-border family law issues, a project described in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Legal Education.

Elizabeth Judge

A.B. (English and American Literature; Political Science) (Hons.), magna cum laude, (Brown), M.A. (English Literature) (Toronto), J.D., cum laude, (Harvard), LL.M. (Dalhousie) and Ph.D. (English Literature)(Dalhousie), of the bars of Ontario, California and the District of Columbia, Associate Professor

Dr. Elizabeth F. Judge is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Law and an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, where she specializes in intellectual property and privacy and is a member of the law and technology group. Her research has focused on the protection of personal information through tort, property and intellectual property law and other property individuals can hold in themselves. She teaches courses on Intellectual Property, Evidence, Privacy, an advanced intellectual property seminar on Property of the Person, and a seminar on Law and Literature. In the graduate program, Professor Judge has taught graduate seminars on the jurisprudence and policy of law and technology and served as faculty coordinator for the Master of Laws with concentration in Law and Technology. She is a founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief and Faculty Advisor for the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, and teaches the Technology Law Internship: University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal Advanced Legal Research and Editing course in both the LLB and graduate programs. Dr. Judge is the Project Leader of Open Access Law Canada / Libre accès au droit Canada. Dr. Judge has received SSHRC and Killam awards for research in both English literature and law, and has taught in both law and literature. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, she practised law in Washington, D.C. specializing in tax and complex insurance litigation. Professor Judge is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is admitted to the Bars of the State of California, the District of Columbia and the United States Tax Court. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Brown University (English and American Literature; Political Science) (Hons.), a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a Master of Arts (English) from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Laws and a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from Dalhousie University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2001-2002, she served as a law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada. She is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Patent Reporter and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) and the Canadian Privacy Law Review Newsletter. She is the co-author of Intellectual Property: The Law in Canada, with Dr. Daniel Gervais (Carswell) and Le droit de la propriété intellectuelle (Éditions Yvon Blais). Her publications include scholarship in law and literature. Professor Judge’s research interests are in the areas of law and technology, including intellectual property, online privacy, personality rights, the property of personal information, and technology and the courts, as well as evidence, legal history, law and literature, and jurisprudence. Professor Judge is currently engaged in a three-year research project, "18th-Century Fan Fiction and Copyright Law: The Historical Emergence and Legal Protection of Fictional Characters and 18th-Century Cultural Discourse on Authorship and Originality," which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Donald M. McRae

FRSC, LL.B. (Otago), LL.M. (ibid.), Dipl.Int.Law (Cant.), of the Bars of New Zealand and Ontario, Full Professor

Professor McRae holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law and is a former Dean of the Common Law Section. He was formerly Professor and Associate Dean at the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in the field of International Law and has been an Advisor to the Department of External Affairs of the Government of Canada and Counsel for Canada in several international fisheries and boundary arbitrations. He was Chair of the first dispute settlement panel set up under Chapter 18 of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and has sat on subsequent panels under Chapters 18 and 19 of the Free Trade Agreement. He was also Chair of the first dispute settlement panel set up under the U.S. -Israel Free Trade Agreement. He is currently on the roster of panellists under Chapter 19 of NAFTA and on the Indicative List of Panelists of the World Trade Organization. In 1998 he was appointed the Chief Negotiator for Canada for the Pacific Salmon Treaty. His publications are principally in the field of International law and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law. Professor McRae teaches contracts, international law and international trade law.