Revised on October 14, 2014 Panel Chair Biographies Margaret Boittin is Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Previously, she was a Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She has a JD from Stanford, and is completing her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, she holds an MA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a BA from Yale University. Her PhD dissertation is on the regulation of prostitution in China. She is also conducting research on human trafficking in Nepal, and criminal law policy and local enforcement in the United States. Bilingual in French and English, Boittin is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and proficient in Russian and Spanish. Her primary teaching interests are property law, international law, criminal law, state and local government law, Chinese law, comparative law, and empirical methods. Jutta Brunnée is the Interim Dean, Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of Public International Law and International Environmental Law. Her recent work has focused on international law and international relations theory, compliance with international law, the inter-state use of force, domestic application of international law, multilateral environmental agreements, climate change issues and international environmental liability regimes. Professor Brunnée is also the co-author of Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which was awarded the American Society of International Law’s 2011 Certificate of Merit for preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. She has authored numerous articles on topics of international environmental law and international law, and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2007). She is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Legal Principles relating to Climate Change and of World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Environmental Law Commission. In 1998-99, Professor Brunnée was the “Scholar-in-Residence” in the Legal Bureau of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, advising, inter alia, on matters under the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions. She serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013. Ron Levi is an Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology, and holds the George Ignatieff Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. Ron's research focuses on global justice institutions, human rights regimes, and law and internationalization. He is currently conducting research on: (1) the fields of international criminal law, human rights, and international development, with an emphasis on legal and institutional responses to human rights violations and atrocities; (2) criminal justice and urban policies within the social and political rationalities of modern states (such as neoliberalism); and (3) immigration, diasporas, and experiences of law, crime, citizenship and the state. Ron currently 2 directs the Master of Global Affairs program in the Munk School of Global Affairs, and is a recipient of the UTSU/APUS Undergraduate Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence. Kerry Rittich is a Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute. She teaches and writes in the areas of international law and international institutions, law and development, human rights, labour law, and critical and feminist theory. Among her publications are Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002); (with Joanne Conaghan, University of Kent), Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, (Oxford University Press, 2005); "Core Labour Rights and Labour Market Flexibility: Two Paths Entwined?", Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, Labor Law Beyond Borders: ADR and the Internationalization of Labor Dispute Resolution, (Kluwer Law International, 2003) and "The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social" in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos eds., The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006). In 2004, she completed a report for the Law Commission of Canada entitled, Vulnerable Workers: Legal and Policy Issues in the New Economy. She obtained an LL.B. from the University of Alberta in 1992, and an SJD from Harvard University in 1998. In 1992-93, she served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Rittich has been the Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard Law School and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and a fellow at the European University Institute. Hengameh Saberi is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Saberi’s main areas of interest are international law, international legal theory and history, jurisprudence, disability law and human rights, philosophy of pragmatism, and Islamic political and legal thought. She has previously taught at Brown University, University of Tennessee College of Law, Boston University School of Law, and Harvard University. Prior to joining Osgoode Hall Law School in July 2012, she was a post-doctoral fellow jointly at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. David Schneiderman, B.A (McGill) 1980, LL.B. (Windsor) 1983, LL.M. (Queen's) 1993, is a Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1984 where he practiced law and then served as Research Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Toronto from 1986-89. He was Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies, an interdisciplinary research institute, at the University of Alberta from 1989-99. Professor Schneiderman has authored numerous articles on Canadian federalism, the Charter of Rights, Canadian constitutional history, and constitutionalism and globalization. He 3 has authored Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy's Promise (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-authored The Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada with Florian Sauvageau and David Taras (UBC Press, 2006). He also has edited several books, including The Quebec Decision (1999); Charting the Consequences: The Impact of the Charter of Rights on Canadian Law and Politics (1997) with Kate Sutherland; Police Powers in Canada: The Police Power in History, Law, and Politics (1993) with R.C. MacLeod; Social Justice and the Constitution: Perspectives on a Social Union for Canada (1992) with Joel Bakan; and Freedom of Expression and the Charter (1991). He is founding editor of the quarterly Constitutional Forum Constitutionnel and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Review of Constitutional Studies. 4 Speaker Biographies Anita Anand, BA (Hons) (Queen's) 1989, BA (Hons Juris) (Oxon) 1991, LLB (Dalhousie) 1992, LLM (Toronto) 1996, joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from Queen's University in 2006. She is a Professor of Law and served as Associate Dean (JD Program) from 2007-2009. Since 2010, she has served as the Academic Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession at U of T, and in this role has led the development of its new Program on Ethics in Law and Business. She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, and is cross-appointed to the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Professor Anand was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada and a Herbert Smith Visitor at the University of Cambridge. In 2005-2006, she was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale Law School. During Fall 2005, she was a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School where she taught comparative corporate governance. She is the recipient of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (three awards), the Foundation for Legal Research (three awards), the Connaught Foundation as well as the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Scholarly Paper Award (2003). In Fall 2004, she received the Queen's Law Students' Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and in Fall 2006, she and co-authors Frank Milne and Lynnette Purda were awarded the Best Paper in Managerial Finance by the International Journal of Managerial Finance for their empirical research relating to corporate governance. Professor Anand has conducted research for the Five Year Review Committee, the Wise Person's Committee, the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada and the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. She was the inaugural Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission's Investor Advisory Panel (2010-2012) and the past president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association (2009-2011). In 2012, she was appointed to the Bertha Wilson Honour Society by the Schulich School of Law for service to the legal profession. Since 2010, she has served on the Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism.