Back to School

Lonny and Elyse are heading back to law school this semester, as faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Elyse will be returning as an instructor for Osgoode’s popular Trial Advocacy Course.  This course is an introduction to the techniques of trial advocacy in civil and criminal trials. Students learn about pre-trial preparation and case analysis, opening and closing statements, examination and cross-examination of witnesses, evidence issues, expert evidence, tactical questions and ethical issues that confront the trial lawyer. Students perform simulation exercises in small groups under the critical guidance of experienced trial lawyers and Judges.

For the seventh consecutive year, Lonny will be co-teaching an upper year seminar in Health Law. The course covers the cornerstone areas of health law:

• Consent, capacity and substitute decision-making

• professional regulation and governance

• medical malpractice

• mental health law

• health information privacy

• medical assistance in dying

• human rights in health care

• hospitals and health care facilities

• the civil commitment system

• reproductive health and surrogacy

• research ethics

• corporate health issues

They are both looking forward to meeting their new students, some of whom may one day be colleagues in health and regulatory law!