Professor Carys Craig
LL.B. (Hons 1st Cl) (Edinburgh), LL.M. (Queens), S.J.D. (Toronto)
Associate Dean, Research and Institutional Relations
Academic Director, Osgoode Professional LL.M. Program in Intellectual Property
Editor-in-Chief, The IPilogue and the Osgoode Hall Law School eJournal
Dr. Carys Craig stepped into the role of Director of IP Osgoode in January 2023. As faculty member at Osgoode since 2002, and a founding member of IP Osgoode, Dr. Craig brings to the role a wealth of experience and enthusiasm for teaching, researching, mentoring, and mobilizing knowledge in the field of intellectual property law and technology.
An internationally recognized scholar in the field, she is the author of Copyright, Communication & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (2011), and the co-editor of Trade-marks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Commentary, 2nd ed. (2014) and Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law, 2nd ed. (2013). Recent publications include, e.g. “Transforming Total Concept and Feel: Dialogic Authorship, Copying and the ‘New Work’”, in 38 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 603-654 (2021); “The Death of the AI Author” with Ian Kerr, 52(1) Ottawa Law Review 33-86 (2021); and “AI and Copyright” in Martin-Bariteau & Scassa (eds), Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (2021). Dr. Craig is frequently invited to share her work and expertise with academic audiences, professional organizations, policymakers, and the press, while her publications are regularly cited, including in several landmark rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Founding Director
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino
BA (Hons) (York), LLB (Osgoode), MSt and DPhil (Oxford), of the Bar of Ontario
Founder and Director, IP Intensive & IP Innovation Clinic
Editor-in-Chief, Intellectual Property Journal
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
The Founding Director of IP Osgoode and the IP Innovation Clinic, Prof. Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino is a law professor, lawyer, author, public speaker, board director and recognized scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University specializing in intellectual property (IP), technology and innovation law and policy. She joined Osgoode Hall in 2006 and is regularly called by Canadian and foreign governments for advice, has testified before Parliament and is a widely published author, regularly serves as a consultant and is a cited authority at the Supreme Court of Canada and in various media. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Intellectual Property Journal.
She began her legal career as an Associate in a large Toronto law firm and was later recruited into the Canadian Government by the Recruitment of Policy Leaders (RPL) as a Senior Policy Analyst working on copyright policy. Prof. D’Agostino is Co-Director of York University’s AI & Society Research Centre. Her publications include Copyright, Contract, Creators: New Media, New Rules, The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver and Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (with A Gaon and C Piovesan).
gdagostino@osgoode.yorku.ca