Berger, Benjamin

Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada

bberger@osgoode.yorku.ca
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Dr. Benjamin Berger is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. His areas of teaching and research specialization are law and religion, criminal and constitutional law and theory, and the law of evidence. Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Berger was an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and held a cross appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, where he began teaching in 2004. He served as law clerk to the Rt. Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University. He has published broadly in his principal areas of research and his work has appeared in multiple edited collections and in legal and interdisciplinary journals. He is Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society and is a General Editor for the Hart Publishing series Constitutional Systems of the World. He received the 2010 Canadian Association of Law Teacher's Scholarly Paper Award for an article entitled "The Abiding Presence of Conscience: Criminal Justice Against the Law and the Modern Constitutional Imagination." Professor Berger is active in professional and public education, and is involved in public interest advocacy. While at UVic Law, Professor Berger twice received the Terry J. Wuester Teaching Award, and was awarded the First Year Class Teaching Award; he received the Osgoode Hall Law School Teaching Award in 2013. He convenes the Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought (http://lrst.osgoode.yorku.ca), which is open to all interested members of the community.

Areas of Interest

Pluralism and Multiculturalism
Religion and the Canadian Constitution
Religion and Society
Religion and Law
Secular and Secularism

Related materials

Law's Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism
Research articles - various