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David J. Doorey

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School of Human Resource Management

Associate Professor
Director, Osgoode Hall Law School, LLM Labour & Employment Law (PDP)
Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor and Worklife Program

Office: Atkinson Building
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 30592
Email: ddoorey@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://lawofwork.ca

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David Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law at York University and Director of Osgoode Hall Law School's part-time LL.M program specializing in Labour & Employment Law. He is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School's Labor and Work Life Program and in 2019-2020, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Professor Doorey is a multiple award winning teacher including of the prestigious Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Tenured Faculty category. His book The Law of Work, 2nd Ed, is used in universities and colleges across Canada. He is Editor of the Canadian Law of Work Forum, a national collaborative law blog and his former blog Law of Work was a multiple award winner as the top law blog in Canada.

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Professor Doorey has served as Director of York's School of HRM and as the Director of Osgoode Hall Law School's Specialist Masters of Law (LL.M) degree in Labour and Employment Law since 2010. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, Labor and Work Life Program and a visiting research fellow at Harvard during his sabbatical in 2019-2020. Previously he has been a visitor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Centre for Industrial Relations and HRM.

Prior to returning to academia, Professor Doorey practiced labour law at a law firm in Vancouver and later served as general counsel to the United Steelworkers Union at the national office of the union in Toronto. He is called the bars of Ontario and British Columbia.

Professor Doorey was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School (Ph.D, J.D.), London School of Economics (LL.M), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.). He is recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Doorey's research and writing is the areas of Canadian and comparative labour and employment law, labour practices management within global and national supply chains, legal theory, and environmental law. Many of his published articles can be downloaded for free at his SSRN homepage: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=553786

His law blog, Law of Work (http://lawofwork.ca) was awarded the Fodden Award for Canada's Top Law Blog, and was a multiple winner of the Canadian Law Blog Awards for best law blog by a legal scholar. His book 'The Law of Work' was described by Professor Emeritus Harry Arthurs as "THE labour and employment law text for our time". Professor Doorey is the recipient of the Morley Gunderson Award and the H.D. Woods Prize for outstanding contributions to Canadian industrial relations. His research on work law, industrial relations, legal theory, corporate social responsibility, and environmental law have been published in leading Canadian and international academic journals. He lives in Toronto's west end and in Prince Edward County with his spouse and two kids, and assortment of animals and coaches kids rep hockey.

Degrees

PhD, Osgoode Hall Law School
LLM, London School of Economics
MIR, University of Toronto
LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School
BA, Toronto

Professional Leadership

Director, Osgoode Hall Law School LLM in Labour and Employment Law Director (2010-Present)
Director, School of HRM, York University (2016-2019)
Editor in Chief, Canadian Law of Work Forum (2020 -Present)
Articles Review Editor, Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal

Research Interests

Law and Justice , Labour, Industrial Relations, Labour and the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Law