Faculty

Anil Kapoor was called to the bar in 1988. He practices criminal law at the trial and appellate levels, as well as regulatory law in the area of professional discipline, both defending and prosecuting. He appears regularly before the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as Courts of Appeal in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2006, he was appointed Commission Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 (the Air India Public Inquiry). In 2008, he was appointed by the Minister of Justice (Canada) to the roster of security cleared Special Advocates to conduct National Security litigation. In 2010, Mr. Kapoor was appointed to serve on the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on National Security. Mr. Kapoor is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where he has taught in both the J.D. and L.L.M. programs. He is a regular speaker at continuing legal education seminars throughout Canada, has been a guest lecturer at Oxford University, and has spoken at various conferences in the United Kingdom on security matters. Mr. Kapoor authored Kapoor’s Criminal Appeals Review, a Lexis/Nexis Publication, from 1999 to 2005, and continues to publish extensively. In 2011 Mr. Kapoor was elected to the Board of Directors of the Advocates Society, a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in advocacy.

Dena Bonnet has been crown counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal since 2008. Dena regularly appears at the Court of Appeal and her litigation practice includes many Ontario Review Board appeals, and other Part XX.1 issues, such as NCR appeals, high-risk accused designations, and fitness issues. Dena is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and is co-editor of the Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law (LexisNexis, 2024).

Dr Elizabeth Kirley is a 2021-22 Visiting Scholar at the Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is working on two invited book projects: Outsmarting the Next Pandemic: what COVID-19 can teach us (Routledge 2022) and Big Policing and Big Crime: is it all about the money? (University of Toronto Press 2022).

Dr Kirley is the recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award for the Master of Laws program at Osgoode Professional Development where she has served as instructor in the Criminal Law & Procedure and Privacy & Cybersecurity programs since 2018. Current and future courses at OPD include Issues in Criminal Law: History, Evolution & Theoretical Approaches; Pandemic Law; Foundations of Digital Crime; Emerging Risks of Digital Crime; and Nonverbal Evidence in Court and Negotiations. Prior appointments include sessional teaching for Osgoode’s juris doctor program (Criminal Law, National Security Law, Crime in the Digital Age, and Law and Policing) as well as in the Sociology Department at York University (Organized Crime & Money Laundering; the Sociology of Policing). She has served as Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia and as Assistant Professor of Criminology at Ryerson University.

Dr Kirley is called to the Ontario bar and has served as criminal defence counsel as well as Assistant Crown Attorney and representative of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. She holds PhD and LLM degrees from Osgoode, and a JD from the University of Western Ontario. Her life before law involved broadcast journalism for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Dr Kirley’s PhD thesis, “Reputational Privacy and the Internet: a role for law?” has led to studies in social media law, cybercrime, and cognitive robotics related to global health, defamation, national security, and evidentiary challenges raised by the emerging law of digital speech. In a series of publications, co-authored with Dr Marilyn McMahon, Dr Kirley examines the humble emoji as a tool of crime, a precursor of digital speech, and a means of conveying human diversity through social media. She has received various distinctions for her work, including a Canada/France Foreign Government Award, European Union Centre of Excellence Award, the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program, the Osnabruck University Law & Culture Award, and two Nathanson Centre Graduate Fellowships at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has taught, conducted research, and presented her work at different universities including the American Graduate School of Paris; l’École des hautes études commerciales de Paris; Sciences-Po University (Paris), University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs; Quello School of Communications at Michigan State University; University of Limerick Faculty of Law, Ireland; Duquesne School of Law, Pennsylvania; the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa in Portugal ;and the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Montreal. Her work is published in several peer reviewed journals.

Jonathan Rudin received his LLB and LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School.  In 1990 he was hired to establish Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto and has been with ALST ever since.  Currently he is the Program Director. Mr. Rudin has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada including representing ALST before the Supreme Court in R v. Ipeelee.

At ALST he helped establish the Community Council – the first urban Aboriginal justice program in Canada in 1992, and in 2001 helped establish the Gladue (Aboriginal Persons) Court at the Old City Hall Courts in Toronto.

Mr. Rudin has written and spoken widely on issues of Aboriginal justice.  He co-wrote the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples’ report on Justice – Bridging the Cultural Divide- and was a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Ipperwash Inquiry.  Mr. Rudin also teaches on a part-time basis in the Law and Society Program at York University.  Last but not least, he plays the mandolin and sings with Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room, a group that plays regularly in Toronto and has a number of videos on YouTube.

Kenneth E. Jull is a Partner at Gardiner Roberts LLP and completed a two-year interchange with the Competition Bureau Legal Services in Ottawa in the position of General Counsel from 2016-2018. Mr. Jull is the co-author of Profiting From Risk Management and Compliance (Thomson Reuters 2023, Co-Author is the Honourable Todd Archibald). A Student Edition of this text is used in a course taught by Mr. Jull at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, entitled “Financial Crimes and Corporate Compliance” and at the graduate level at Osgoode Hall Law School in the course entitled “CLWP 6783 – Corporate and Financial Crimes and Compliance.”

Mr. Jull conducts compliance reviews and litigates disputes which have a compliance component. This risk and compliance practice includes mergers and acquisitions review and spans a spectrum of diverse subject areas ranging from competition law to regulatory standards in areas such as the environment and telecommunications. As part of risk management, Mr. Jull provides advice to organizations with respect to a due diligence matrix for compliance. The matrix is based on a mathematical model which incorporates new behavioral research.

Mr. Jull has litigated cases at all levels of Courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and Courts of Appeals in areas including constitutional and tax law, telecommunications, securities oppression, environmental offences, misleading/deceptive advertising and civil/ criminal fraud.

Mr. Jull is listed in the Who’s Who Legal-Canada Report 2022, Business Crime Defence and is a Thomson Reuters Stand Out Lawyer 2023. Mr. Jull is a Graduate of University of Toronto (Victoria College) 1978, Osgoode Hall Law School, (LL.B.,1981). Mr. Jull received his LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1985 and is proud to be part of the graduate faculty teaching in the LL.M. program at Osgoode.

Melvyn Green was a member of the Ontario Court of Justice for 16 years. He presided in downtown Toronto, retiring in 2021.

Melvyn Green is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His legal practice was primarily devoted to trial and appellate criminal litigation, with an emphasis on Charter enforcement and public interest law. Formerly a sociologist, he taught at Carleton University while serving as the associate research director for the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the “Le Dain Inquiry”). As a lawyer, he served as senior co-counsel to the federal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (the “Krever Inquiry”) and represented AIDWYC (the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted) at public inquiries into criminal miscarriages of justice in Ontario, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador. He was co-president of AIDWYC (now Innocence Canada) at the time of his judicial appointment in 2005.

Mr. Green’s law-related publications include such topics as wrongful convictions, the social and political history of drug control policy, racial discrimination in jury selection, the role of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in the criminal justice system, the “Gladue” (Aboriginal Persons) Court, the impact of the Charter on drug legislation, and the principle of restraint in sentencing.

Mr. Green currently teaches sentencing at two Canadian law schools.

Molly Flanagan is counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal where she prosecutes trials and appeals. She also regularly teaches at the Canadian Police College and Toronto Police College on criminal law issues and the Charter.

Natalie V. Kolos is a litigator in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Toronto Litigation Group and a member of the firm’s White Collar and Investigations and Securities Litigation Groups.
She maintains a general trial and appellate litigation practice in both criminal and civil litigation, with a focus on commercial disputes, professional liability, white collar defence and investigations, securities litigation, and criminal, regulatory, and constitutional law. Ms. Kolos has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario, including the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

The HON JUSTICE TODD L. ARCHIBALD, Appointed Justice of the Superior Court of Justice-1999; Partner: Borden, Ladner, Gervais from 1992 to 1999; Practiced in fields of civil, criminal and environmental litigation; Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as an Environmental Law Specialist in 1997; Adjunct Professor: Advanced Trial Advocacy, Corporate Crimes and Regulatory Offences, and Advanced Evidence at Osgoode Hall Law School (2000 – to present).

Editor – Carswell’s Annual Review of Civil Litigation (2001 – to present);

Co-Author, 2008 Ontario Superior Court Practice (an annual publication);

Co-Author – 2009 Discovery Text – Principles and Practice in Canadian Common Law (2nd Edition);

Co-Author – 2005 Regulatory and Corporate Liability Text (updated annually).

Author of many articles on civil and criminal issues; Received LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1986.

Formerly Senior Solicitor for the Legal Department of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto 1989-1990; Formerly Senior Assistant Crown Attorney in Toronto 1985-1989.