Carys J. Craig

Carys J Craig is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where she has been a member of the full-time faculty since 2002 and director of the Professional LLM Program in Intellectual Property since 2009. A recipient of the Osgoode Hall Legal & Literary Society Excellence in Teaching Award, Dr Craig teaches a variety of JD and graduate courses in the field of intellectual property law. She researches and publishes on domestic, comparative, and international copyright and trademark law and policy, with an emphasis on public interest theory and the public domain. Her award-winning work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada. Her recently published monograph, Copyright, Communication, & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright law (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Press, 2011), critically examines the theoretical foundations of modern copyright law. Dr Craig holds a First Class Honours Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and a Doctorate in Law (SJD) from the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy.