Adam Dodek
Adam Dodek is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. He 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, Adam practiced law in San Francisco and then clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena. He 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, the Honourable Michael Bryant, first as Senior Policy Adviser and then as Director of Policy and from 2005-06 as his Chief of Staff.
Adam’s areas of research include public law, the legal profession and legal ethics. He is currently editing a book on judicial independence with Professor Lorne Sossin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a book on Chief Justice Lamer with Professor Daniel Jutras of McGill University titled The Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Chief Justice Antonio Lamer / Le feu sacré: l'héritage d'Antonio Lamer, juge en chef du Canada. He is also the General Editor of Canadian Legal Practice: A Guide for the 21st Century (forthcoming 2009) (with Jeffrey Hoskins).