Frederick H. Zemans

Biography

Professor Zemans currently teaches Lawyer as Negotiator, Theory and Practice of Mediation, and Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Alternative Dispute Resolution in Osgoode’s LLM Program in ADR. Professor Zemans’ publications have focused primarily on the Canadian legal profession, access to justice, legal services for low-income persons, and alternative dispute resolution and quality assurance of state-funded legal services.   In recent years, he co-authored:  From Crisis to Reform:  A  New Legal Aid Plan for Ontario; Access to Justice for a New Century – The Way Forward; The Evaluation of the  Mandatory Mediation Pilot Project in Ottawa and Toronto; The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiations (Emond Montgomery: 2007) and  An Evaluation of the Pilot Project of Three Criminal Law Offices (Legal Aid  Ontario: 2008). Professor Zemans currently teaches Lawyer as Negotiator, Theory and Practice of Mediation, and Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Alternative Dispute Resolution in Osgoode’s LLM Program in ADR. Professor Zemans’ publications have focused primarily on the Canadian legal profession, access to justice, legal services for low-income persons, and alternative dispute resolution and quality assurance of state-funded legal services.   In recent years, he co-authored:  From Crisis to Reform:  A  New Legal Aid Plan for Ontario; Access to Justice for a New Century – The Way Forward; The Evaluation of the  Mandatory Mediation Pilot Project in Ottawa and Toronto; The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiations (Emond Montgomery: 2007) and  An Evaluation of the Pilot Project of Three Criminal Law Offices (Legal Aid  Ontario: 2008).

Research Interest

Professor Zemans has been a Butterworth’s Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, University of London, and a visitor at Kobe University Law Department and the University of California at Los Angeles.  He served for many years as Chair of boards of inquiry for the Ontario Human Rights Commission and, in recent years, as a mediator and facilitator in private and public disputes.