Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy is an alumnus of the Common Law Section, having graduated summa cum laude in 1996. He has taught Evidence, as a part-time professor, in the Common Law Section since Fall 2005. Ted also spent two years, post-graduation, as a seminar instructor in the Common Law Section, teaching a Legal Study and Scholarship non-compulsory seminar for first-year students.
Ted clerked for Justices John Sopinka and Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada during 1997/1998. He then went on to obtain his LLM from Harvard University in 1998/1999. Ted is a Fulbright Scholar and SSHRC Research Fellow, which funding supported his evidence-focused LLM research efforts. He also worked as a research assistant to Professor Paul Weiler while at Harvard.
Ted is currently employed by the Department of Justice Canada, as counsel in its Constitutional and Administrative Law Section. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Ted conducted a litigation practice, in the areas of employment/labour law, administrative law, and general litigation, at Borden Ladner Gervais, in Toronto, and then Nelligan O’Brien Payne, in Ottawa.
Prior to law school, Ted obtained his Honours Degree in Journalism, summa cum laude, from Carleton University.
Ted’s publications include “Recent Developments Relating to the Awarding of Damages Within an Employment Law Context: A Unifying Theory,” Special Lectures 2005: The Modern Law of Damages (Toronto, Irwin Law, 2006); “Remedies,” Employment Law Solutions for the Canadian Workplace (Toronto: Specialty Technical Publishers, 2002); and “Computer recreations and the expert evidence admissibility analysis: A reconsideration of current conceptions of reliability and prejudice, and their impact on the role of the trier of fact” (2000), 23 Adv. Quarterly 392.