Adam Dodek
Associate Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Adam.Dodek@uOttawa.ca
613-562-5800 ext.3308
613-562-5124
B.A. (McGill), J.D. (Harvard), LL.M. (Toronto). Of the bars of Ontario and California.
Professor Dodek graduated from McGill University and Harvard Law School and then received a Fulbright Scholarship to research Israeli constitutional law while clerking for the Supreme Court of Israel. After being called to the bar in California, Professor Dodek practiced law in San Francisco and then clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena. Professor Dodek returned to Canada and clerked for Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. After being called to the bar in Ontario, he joined the Public Law Working Group in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's Toronto office where he practiced until the fall of 2003. At that time, he joined the staff of Ontario's Attorney General, first as Senior Policy Adviser and then as Director of Policy and from 2005-06 as Chief of Staff.
Professor Dodek joined the Faculty in 2008 where he is currently teaching Introduction to Public Law and Legislation, Torts and a first year elective course in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Professor Dodek's areas of research include public law, the legal profession and legal ethics. He is the co-editor of The Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Chief Justice Antonio Lamer / Le feu sacré: l'héritage d'Antonio Lamer, juge en chef du Canada (with Professor Daniel Jutras of McGill). He is also the General Editor of Canadian Legal Practice: A Guide for the 21st Century (2009) (with Jeffrey Hoskins). Professor Dodek is currently editing a book on judicial independence with Professor Lorne Sossin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a monograph on the first decade of the McLachlin Court with David Wright of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.