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FOUR NEW FACULTY JOIN U of T LAWSCHOOL

September 21, 2004 − Four new professors have joined the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law to enhance and expand various course offerings at the law school. Benjamin Alarie, Angela Fernandez, and Frédéric Mégrethave joined as Assistant Professors, and Ariel Katz has assumed the role ofassistant professor and Chair, Electronic Commerce, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. The latest professors are all under 40 years old, an age bracket that now comprises about 25 per cent of all law professors employed at the U of T, Faculty of Law.

These latest hires bring the teaching staff up to 54 reflecting the lowest student-to-faculty ratio in Canada andone of the best in North America.

Benjamin Alarie (J.D., Class of 2002) will teach a small group of contracts and an introductory course in tax law. Other research interests include corporate law, and economic analysis of law.Alarie was a Graduate Fellow at YaleLawSchool and in addition tohis J.D.,he has a B.A. in economics and finance from WilfridLaurierUniversity (1999), an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto (2002), and an LL.M. from YaleLawSchool (2003).

Angela Fernandezhas a specialty in contracts and legal history.She is interested in the ways which legal culture is reproduced.Since the instantaneous, electronic retrieval of legal knowledge has transformed the practice of law, she studies the impact of older, manual forms of legal record-keeping. Fernandez focuses on 'scribal practices,' reading, book-handling and writing practices key to an understanding of how legal knowledge replicates itself over time.

Frédéric Mégret will teach international human rights after a year as Boulton Fellow at McGillUniversity. Mégret is an international lawyer from France whose research includes the role and functioning of international criminal tribunals, and the use of force in international law. He holds a joint degree from King’s College London and the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and a Masters in International Law from the Université de Paris I.

Ariel Katz will strengthen the Faculty’s core expertise in technology law at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. His teaching and research focus is on competition law, intellectual property, international trade and electronic commerce. Katz will continue to explore the collective administration of copyrights, anti-competitive joint enforcement of intellectual property rights, and whether competition law has a role in promoting democratic discourse.

Prior to this latest expansion,the Faculty enhanced its environmental teaching capability in January 2004 with the addition of environmental scholar Andrew Green, who is teaching courses in domestic environmental law and economics.

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