Gregory Hagen
 ___________________________ Gregory Hagen |
B.A., M.A. (Br. Col.), Ph.D. (Western Ontario), LL.B. (Dal.) LL.M. (Ottawa) Professor Hagen joined the faculty in 2003. He is a graduate of Dalhousie law school and of the LL.M. program (law and technology) at the University of Ottawa. Professor Hagen taught law at the University of Ottawa (Common Law) during the 2002-2003 academic year and has taught philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. During the summer of 2005 he was a visiting professor at Duke University's Asia America Institute in Transnational Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he co-taught a course entitled "Surveillance, Technology and National Security: Issues in Civil Liberties." He spent one term in 2008 as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, West Africa researching issues in intellectual property and development. He is presently doing research on ethical and legal issues concerning synthetic biology as a co-investigator in the PhytoMetaSyn project. The project recently hosted a GE3LS Workshop. He is also a co-investigator on Rethinking processual law: towards a cyberjustice, which will study and create new procedural models utilizing the Cyberjustice Laboratory built by by the Université de Montréal’s Centre de Recherche en Droit Public and McGill University's Faculty of Law. Professor Hagen was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999, following which he practiced in the areas of corporate, securities and technology law at two national law firms. Prior to entering the field of law, Professor Hagen earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science at the University of Western Ontario an M.A. (with thesis in legal philosophy) and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia. He currently teaches in the areas of intellectual property law, internet law, biotechnology law and torts. His areas of interest also include legal and political philosophy, philosophy of science and science policy. |