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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989 - Present Arbitrator, Mediator and Independent Investigator in Private Practice
University of Ottawa
2000 - 2001 Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, (half-time)
1998 - 1999 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, (half-time)
1995 - 1998 On Leave
1991 - 1995 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
1986 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
1987 - 1989 Faculty Editor, Ottawa Law Review
1989 - 2001 Member, School of Graduate Studies
1993 - 1994 Associate Director, Graduate Studies in Law
EDUCATION
1988 J.S.D., Stanford Law School
1985 M.A., University of Toronto
1984 - 1985 Bar Admission Course, Law Society of Upper Canada
1980 - 1983 LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School
1976 - 1980 B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto
COURSES TAUGHT
Labour Law, Labour Arbitration, Professional Responsibility & The Legal Profession, Legislation, Legal History
ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND ENGAGEMENTS
1987 Consultant, Canadian Bar Association, Ottawa
1988 Consultant, Nova Scotia Branch, Canadian Bar Association, Submission to the Royal Commission on Mr. Donald Marshall Jr., Prosecution
1988 Member (Part-Time), the Public Service Staff Relations Board
1988 Member of Council, Canadian Bar Association - Ontario
1989 Consultant, Department of Justice, Ottawa
1989 Adjudicator, Canada Labour Code
1990 General Counsel & Research Director, Canadian Bar Association Task Force on the Independence of Federal Administrative Tribunals
1990 Consultant, Public Service Commission of Canada (Citizenship Requirements in the Public Service)
1990 Vice-Chair (Part-Time), Ontario Crown Employees Grievance Settlement Board
1991 Founding Editor, Canadian Labour Law Journal (with Warren Winkler, Q.C. and Jeffrey Sack, Q.C.)
1992 Appointed to Ontario Ministry of Labour List of Arbitrators
1992 Consultant, Senate of Canada, (Canadian Citizenship)
1992 Named to List of Arbitrators, the Frontenac County Board of Education and Canadian Union of Public Employees, Locals 1480 and 1727
1993 Appointed Referee, City of Toronto and City of Toronto Administrative, Professional and Supervisory Association, Inc.
1993 Appointed, Investigator, Deployment Recourse Office, Public Service Commission of Canada
1994 Elected to the Executive, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrator’s Association
1995 Appointed Chair, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrator’s Association, Task Force on the Future of the Association
1995 Named to List of Arbitrators, United Steelworkers, Local 2859 and Babcock & Wilcox
1995 Named to List of Arbitrators, OPSEU Internal Sexual/Gender Harassment Policy
1995 Named to List of Arbitrators, Lear Seating, St. Thomas Plant and CAW
1997 Named to List of Arbitrators, City of Ottawa and CUPE, Local 503
1997 Named to List of Arbitrators, Council of Regents and OPSEU (Support Staff)
1998 Named to List of Arbitrators, PaintPlas and IAM, Local 2524
1998 Named to Registrar of Arbitrators, Black Photo Corporation and UNITE
1998 Named to List of Arbitrators, Air Canada and Air Canada Pilots Association
1999 Named to List of Arbitrators for the Metro Framework Agreement Human Resources Adjustment Plan
1999 Named to List of Arbitrators, NHLPA
1999 Named to List of Arbitrators for the Framework Agreement, Human Resources Labour Adjustment Plan for Ottawa Carleton
1999 Named to List of Arbitrators for the Human Resources Adjustment Plan, Quinte Health Care Corporation and ONA, OPSEU & SEIU
1999 Named Chair Joint Resolution Committee, Independent Electricity Market Operator & The Society of Hydro Professionals
2000 Named to List of Arbitrators, Orion Bus Industries
2000 Named to External Arbitrator Pool, University of Waterloo
2002 Appointed to the Board of Advisors, Canadian Centre for Political Leadership
2003 Named to List of Arbitrators, Alcoa Wheel Products and CAW, Local 1995
2004 Named to List of Arbitrators, Canada Council of Teamsters and Securicor
2004 Named to the List of Arbitrators, Air Canada and CUPE
2004 Named as Arbitrator, York University and York University Faculty Association
2005 Re-appointed, External Arbitrator Pool, University of Waterloo and University of Waterloo Faculty Association
2005 Named as Arbitrator, Lear Corporation and UNITE Ontario Council, Local 1885
2007 Named as Arbitrator, Air Canada/Jazz Air and Air Line Pilots’ Association
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Everything that Floats: Pat Sullivan, Hal Banks and The Seamen’s Unions of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 1987.
State and Salvation: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and their Fight for Civil Rights (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 1989.
Bad Judgment: The Case of Mr. Justice Leo Landreville (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and The Osgoode Society) 1996
One More Border (Toronto: Groundwood Books) 1998.
Presumed Guilty: Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair and the Government of Canada (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart) 1998.
A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press), 2004
Edited Books
Moscow Despatches: Inside Cold War Russia (co-edited with Dean Beeby) (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company) 1987.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (I) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack and Morley Gunderson) (Toronto: Butterworths) 1991.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (II) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack and Morley Gunderson) (Toronto: Butterworths) 1991.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (III) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack and Morley Gunderson) (Toronto: Butterworths) 1992.
Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship (editor and contributor) (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press) 1993.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (IV) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack and Morley Gunderson) (Toronto: Butterworths) 1993.
Law Policy and International Justice: Essays in Honour of Maxwell Cohen (co-edited with Donald McRae) (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press) 1993.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (V) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack and Morley Gunderson) (Toronto: Lancaster House) 1995.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (VI) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack, Morley Gunderson & Roy Filion) (Toronto: Lancaster House) 1996.
Labour Arbitration Yearbook (VII) (co-edited with Jeffrey Sack, Morley Gunderson & Roy Filion) (Toronto: Lancaster House) 1998.
Articles
"Access to Information and the Historical Profession," Canadian Historical Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, September 1985, 378-381.
"Assistance Under the 1970 UNESCO Cultural Property Convention: Canada’s Request to the United States," (1986) 22 Stanford Journal of International Law 123-152.
"Copyright and Academic Works," Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LXVIII, No. 2, June 1987, 259-270.
"The Access to Information Act: A 1988 Review," (Fall 1988) 22 Labour/LeTravail 181-198.
"The Supreme Court of Canada and the Protection of Minority Dissent: The Case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses," (1990) 39 U.N.B. Law Journal 65-77.
"The Evolution of Citizenship Legislation in Canada," (Ottawa: Citizenship Registration and Protection Branch, March 1991)
"The Impact of Economic Difficulties in the Enterprise on Working Conditions: Canada," (Proceedings of the XIIIth World Congress, National Reports, Theme I, International Society for Labour Law & Social Security, Athens, September, 1991) (with Morley Gunderson, Roy Heenan and Jeffrey Sack), 165-182.
"Reforming Citizenship" in J.L. Granatstein and Kenneth McNaught (eds.), "English Canada" Speaks Out, (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1991) 255-564.
"The World War Two Bans of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Canada and Australia: Do Constitutional Protections Really Work?" (1991) 9 Australian-Canadian Studies 5-20.
"Who Belongs?: Changing Concepts of Citizenship and Nationality," in Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press) 1993, 245-264.
"Maxwell Cohen and the Report of the Special Committee on Hate Propaganda," in Law, Policy, and International Justice: Essays in Honour of Maxwell Cohen (co-edited with Donald McRae) (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press), 1993, 243 274.
"Should There Be a Declaration in Our New Citizenship Act?" Policy Options (May 1995) 42-45.
"Harassment: Emerging Legal Issues,"(Toronto: Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Legal Education, 1995) (with E.J. McIntyre, P. Pasieka and A. Pask).
"Employer Liability for Workplace Harassment," (1998) 6 Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal 219-262 (with E. McIntyre, P. Pasieka, A. Pask and V. Reaume).
"The Scope of Rights Arbitration after Weber v. Ontario Hydro,"(1999) 7 Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal 249-271 (with A. Lokan, C.S. Nielsen, I.J. Roland, P.J. Thorup, and D. Parkes).
"Mediating Human Rights and Other Harassment Claims: Some Practical Suggestions,"(Toronto: CBAO Human Rights in the Unionized Workplace, April 2001) (with Mary Cornish and Paula Rusack).
"A Profile of Martin Teplitsky," Labour Arbitration Yearbook 2001-2002, vii-xi (with the Hon. Warren Winkler).
"Is it time to Close Hotel Canada?," Maclean’s (December 25, 2006).
"Reconsider giving police a say in judicial appointments," Globe & Mail (January 24, 2007).
Book Reviews
Patrick Devlin, Easing the Passing: The Trial of John Bodkin Adams (1986) 64 Canadian Bar Review 221.
Martin Friedland, The Case of Valentine Shortis (1987) 19 Ottawa Law Review 255.
"Primary Research and the Research Law" (1987) 19 Ottawa Law Review 513.
C.C.H. McNairn and C.D. Woodbury, Government Information: Access and Privacy (1991) 23 Ottawa Law Review 277.
Sue Calhoun, A Word to Say: The Story of the Maritime Fisherman’s Union (1992) 30 Labour/Travail 284.
Larry Hannant, The Infernal Machine (1996) 37 Labour / Le Travail 316.
Other
"Canada’s Sweetheart" (1987) 7 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 77.
PRESENTATIONS
Viscount Bennett Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, "The Supreme Court of Canada and the Protection of Minority Dissent: The Case of Jehovah’s Witnesses," October 27, 1989.
Annual Meeting, Canadian Law & Society Association, Victoria, British Columbia, "The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Fight for Civil Rights," May 30, 1990.
Canadian Institute for Advance Legal Studies (The Stanford Lectures), Palo Alto, California, "The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Human Rights," July 16, 1990.
Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ ‘90), University of new England, Armidale, New South Wales, "The World War Two Bans of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Canada and Australia: Do Constitutional Rights Protect Minority Groups?," July 22, 1990.
Ninth Administrative Law Seminar of the Department of Justice, Ottawa, Ontario, "The Independence of Administrative Tribunals," February 13, 1992.
In Justice: Canadian Minorities and Human Rights, Simon Fraser University, "The Role of Parliament in the Protection of Human Rights," May 2, 1992.
Round Table on Ethnicity and Citizenship, Royal Society of Canada and Institute of Interethnic Relations, Ottawa, "Countries that Care About Their Citizenship Make Naturalization Difficult," March 5, 1994.
Employment and Labour Law in Ontario, Toronto, "Trends in Labour Arbitrations," October 7, 1994.
Law Society of Upper Canada, What’s New in the Workplace, "Remedies for Harassment at Arbitration," October 19, 1995.
Police Employment in 1996 - Seeking the Common Sense Solution, Toronto, "Interest Arbitration Under Bill 26 - An Arbitrator’s Perspective," February 26, 1996.
Association for the Study of National History in Canada, Conference on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Canadian Citizenship Act, "Should We Meddle With the Canadian Citizenship Act?," February 16, 1997.
Canadian Bar Association Ontario - Labour Law Subsection, "Investigating and Arbitrating Sexual Harassment Cases: An Arbitrator’s Perspective," February 27, 1997.
Canadian Bar Association Ontario - Municipal Law Subsection, "The Peddling and Buying of Influence: The Case of Mr. Justice Leo A. Landreville," June 18, 1997.
Law Society of Upper Canada, Labour Law Update, "The Scope of Rights Arbitration after Weber v. Ontario Hydro," May 28, 1999.
Canadian Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, "Writing Yesterday’s News: Method, Media Madness and Getting to Know Brian Mulroney," June 3, 2000.
Canadian Bar Association, Labour and Administrative Law in the New Millennium, "Who Controls the Decision Makers?," November 25, 2000.
CBAO, Human Rights in the Unionized Workplace, "Mediating Human Rights and Other Harassment Claims: Some Practical Suggestions," April 23, 2001.
North American Association of Education Negotiators, "Interest and Rights Arbitration: The Road to Success (or Failure)," March 11, 2002, Tampa, Florida.
Annual Meeting of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, "Effective Mediation and Arbitration in the Tribunal Environment," June 3, 2002, Ottawa.
Annual Meeting of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators, "Bias in the Administrative Process," November 7, 2003, Toronto.
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Journalists, "Lessons Learned", May 14, 2005, Winnipeg
AWARDS & HONOURARY DEGREES
Law Society Medal, 1999
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Law Society of Upper Canada, February 2002
FELLOWSHIPS
Osgoode Society Fellowship, 1989-1990
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Advocates’ Society
Association des juristes d’expression fran?se de l’Ontario
Canadian Bar Association
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War
Law Society of Upper Canada
Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association
National Academy of Arbitrators
Ontario Labour Management Arbitrator’s Association
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
