Jason Maclean

Biography

Jason MacLean joined the College of Law in 2017. Before joining the faculty, Jason was an assistant professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. He began his legal career as a corporate and commercial litigator with the Wall Street firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and later joined the Bay Street firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto. As a practicing lawyer Jason has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court Trial Division, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Competition Bureau, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the New York City Housing Court, and the Bronx Family Court, among other courts and administrative tribunals. He is called to the Bar in Ontario and the State of New York. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation (CELL), Jason continues to actively consult on public interest environmental law litigation and law reform matters in Canada. After graduating from the combined BCL/LLB program at the McGill University Faculty of Law, Jason clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Madame Justice Marie Deschamps. Jason’s scholarly research focuses primarily on interdisciplinary approaches to Canadian climate change and sustainability law and policy, which is also the subject of his ongoing doctoral research. He conducts additional research on issues of corporate law, including transnational corporate liability for violations of human rights and environmental pollution, as well as contract law, administrative law, and legal education. Jason’s research has been published in a number of leading academic journals, including the McGill Law Journal, Dalhousie Law Journal, Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, and Canadian Business Law Journal, among others. Jason has also published opinion editorials on a variety of environmental and natural resources law issues in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, Policy Options, and the Canadian Bar Association’s National Magazine.

Research Interest

Environmental law Natural resources law Climate change and energy policy Sustainability pathways and co-benefits Transnational corporate law