Ed Morgan to Head The University of Toronto SPME Chapter

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Ed Morgan, Counsel Professor Ed Morgan, School of Law at the University of Toront0 School of Law, has consented to head and revive the SPME Chapter at the University of Toronto. Prof. Morgan, who also serves on the SPME Legal Task Force, served as first president of Canadian Academic Friends of Israel (CAFI), now Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (CAPME). He is also a Past President of the Canadian Jewish Congress as well as its former Legal Counsel.

Professor Morgan has appeared at all levels of Canadian courts as well as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations, and has provided expert evidence on international law to numerous U.S. federal and state courts in jurisdictional disputes and conflict of laws cases. He has represented Canadian Jewish Congress, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Assembly of First Nations, PEN Canada, Hasbara Fellowships, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Epilepsy Association of Toronto, NORML Canada, the African Canadian Legal Clinic and other public interest groups in numerous constitutional, and public interest appeals, and has argued sovereign immunity cases in the Ontario courts, the U.S. federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of and in challenges to a number of national governments. He has testified on matters of law reform, national security, and foreign affairs before Parliamentary committees in both the House of Commons and the Senate. In addition to courses this year at the law school (below), Prof. Morgan has taught International Law in the Political Science department and has taught Legal Dimensions of the Middle East Conflict in the law school as well as in Political Science.

University of Toronto Faculty interested in working with Prof. Morgan at UT should contact him at ed.morgan@utoronto.ca

Ed Morgan to Head The University of Toronto SPME Chapter

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