Peter Halewood

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Professor Ted Rogers School of Management Ted Rogers School of Business Management Toronto, Ontario peter.halewood@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 557129

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Professor Halewood's research addresses international trade and commercial law, voting rights, race and law, property law and commodification, food insecurity and human rights law. He has been a fellow at the Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka, working on constitutional reform projects; ...

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Bio/Research

Professor Halewood's research addresses international trade and commercial law, voting rights, race and law, property law and commodification, food insecurity and human rights law. He has been a fellow at the Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka, working on constitutional reform projects; has worked in litigation with law firms in Toronto, and at the Ontario Ministry of Health Legal Services Division; and was a law clerk to the justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Professor Halewood was Professor of Law at the Albany Law School from 2001-2018 and held the Gov. George E. Pataki Distinguished Professorship from 2018-2020. He has been a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and at the University of Paris X, and was a visiting scholar at University of Rome Tre Faculty of Law. He co-directed and taught in the Tulane-Albany summer program at McGill Faculty of Law for 10 years. He has consulted with the International Development Law Organization in Rome, Italy, on distance learning in international trade law with audiences in Kenya, Uganda, and Mozambique, and with State University of New York Research Foundation on a USAID grant implementing legal training of foreign professionals on the intersection of international trade and economic law with economic, social, and cultural rights. He was an affiliated faculty and advisory board member at the University at Albany's Global Institute for Health and Human Rights. During 2019 he was chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on International Human Rights and is a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Law in the Americas. He is admitted to law practice in New York State.


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