Adam Dodek, University of Ottawa
Associate Professor
Law
Ottawa, Ontario
adam.dodek@uottawa.ca
Office:
(613) 562-5800 ext. 3308
Bio/Research
Professor Dodek teaches Public Law and Legislation, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a member of the Faculty's Public Law Group, the director of The Professionalism Initiative and the co-founder of the Legal Writing Academy.
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Bio/Research
Professor Dodek teaches Public Law and Legislation, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a member of the Faculty's Public Law Group, the director of The Professionalism Initiative and the co-founder of the Legal Writing Academy.
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's areas of research include public law, the legal profession, the judiciary and legal ethics. He is the co-editor of Public Law at the McLachlin Court: The First Decade (with David A. Wright of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario), Judicial Independence in Context (with Dean Lorne Sossin of Osgoode Hall Law School) and The Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Chief Justice Antonio Lamer / Le feu sacré: l'héritage d'Antonio Lamer, juge en chef du Canada (with Dean Daniel Jutras of McGill). He is also the General Editor of Canadian Legal Practice: A Guide for the 21st Century. Professor Dodek is writing a book on Solicitor-Client Privilege and his book The Canadian Constitution will be published by Dundurn Press in 2013. His other current research projects involve Conflicts of Interest, the regulation of the legal profession, judicial ethics, the enactment of the Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor Dodek is a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism and a founding member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics . He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario. In 2012, Professor Dodek was awarded the Capital Educators Award as one of the top teachers in Ottawa.
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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's areas of research include public law, the legal profession, the judiciary and legal ethics. He is the co-editor of Public Law at the McLachlin Court: The First Decade (with David A. Wright of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario), Judicial Independence in Context (with Dean Lorne Sossin of Osgoode Hall Law School) and The Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Chief Justice Antonio Lamer / Le feu sacré: l'héritage d'Antonio Lamer, juge en chef du Canada (with Dean Daniel Jutras of McGill). He is also the General Editor of Canadian Legal Practice: A Guide for the 21st Century. Professor Dodek is writing a book on Solicitor-Client Privilege and his book The Canadian Constitution will be published by Dundurn Press in 2013. His other current research projects involve Conflicts of Interest, the regulation of the legal profession, judicial ethics, the enactment of the Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor Dodek is a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism and a founding member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics . He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario. In 2012, Professor Dodek was awarded the Capital Educators Award as one of the top teachers in Ottawa.
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