“Ed is at the forefront of Canadian scholarship in law and economics,” said Robson.
March 21, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Edward Iacobucci, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, as a Fellow-In-Residence and as the Institute’s Competition Policy Scholar.
“Ed is at the forefront of Canadian scholarship in law and economics,” said Robson. “His contributions to the Institute’s work in competition policy, and to the larger research program, are invaluable.”
Professor Iacobucci’s most recent Institute work, co-authored with Lawson Hunter and Michael Trebilcock, is entitled “Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay.”
Prior to his appointment as Dean, he was Osler Chair in Business Law and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and Associate Dean, Research. He started at the Faculty of Law in 1998. He was Visiting Professor at New York University Law School in 2007, Visiting Professor at University of Chicago Law School in 2003, and a John M. Olin Visiting Fellow at Columbia University Law School in 2002.
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he was the John M. Olin Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia from 1997 to 1998, and served as Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for Mr. Justice John Sopinka from 1996 to 1997. He won a teaching prize at the Faculty of Law in 2000 and was a joint winner with his co-authors of the 2002-3 Doug Purvis Prize in Canadian Economics for The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy.
A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Iacobucci was educated at Queen’s University (B.A. Hons.1991); University of Oxford (M.Phil.1993); and the University of Toronto (LL.B. 1996).
For more information please contact: James Fleming of the C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email: jfleming@cdhowe.org.
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