Leonard I. Rotman

Overview

Dr. Leonard I. Rotman, B.A. (Toronto – With Distinction), LL.B. (Queen’s), LL.M. (Osgoode Hall), S.J.D. (Toronto), is Professor of Law and Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, which he joined in August, 2020. He was previously Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, where he taught from 2012-2020. He joined Dalhousie from the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, which he joined as Assistant Professor in 1998, became Associate Professor with tenure in 2000, and Full Professor in 2001. He was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta from 1996-8 and a member of the Ontario Bar from 1994-2012. Professor Rotman has been invited to serve as Visiting Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA and University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, was named the inaugural Visiting Scholar at the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and was awarded a T.C. Beirne Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Professor Rotman teaches and writes predominantly in the areas of Corporate Law, Theory, and Governance and Fiduciary Law. He has also done substantial work in Aboriginal Law, Constitutional Law, Equity, Trusts, and Remedies/Equitable Relief. Professor Rotman has published 5 books (3 in multiple editions) and over 130 essays, chapters, and law review articles addressing substantive issues in Aboriginal Law, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law, Theory, and Governance, Equity, Equitable Relief, Fiduciary Law, Legal History, Remedies, Trusts, Unincorporated Associations, and Unjust Enrichment/Restitution. His book Fiduciary Law (Thomson/Carswell, 2005) was shortlisted for the 2007 Walter Owen book prize as the best new book in Canadian law. He is also the author of Parallel Paths: Fiduciary Doctrine and the Crown-Native Relationship in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1996), Contributing Editor (with Bruce Welling and Lionel Smith) of Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 4th ed. (LexisNexis, 2010), Contributing Editor (with John Borrows) of Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials & Commentary, 5th ed. (LexisNexis, 2018), and Contributing Editor-in-Chief of Constitutional Law: Cases, Commentary and Principles (Thomson/Carswell, 2008) (with Bruce Elman and Gerald Gall, eds.). He is formerly Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (“WYAJ”) and an editorial board member of the WYAJ and the Dalhousie Law Journal.

He has presented numerous papers at conferences and law schools in Canada, the United States, England, France, Israel and New Zealand. His work has been cited by domestic and international commissions and courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He was most recently cited by the Supreme Court in the Uber case:  Uber Technologies Inc. v Heller, 2020 SCC 16.