Patrick J. Monahan
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Patrick J. Monahan is the Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada, as well as an Affiliated Scholar with the law firm Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg LLP. He has written extensively on constitutional reform and public policy, and served as Senior Policy Advisor to former Ontario Premier David Peterson as well as former Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott during the Meech Lake Accord negotiations from 1987-1990. He has appeared as legal counsel in major public law litigation at the Supreme Court of Canada as well as in lower courts. He is a frequent commentator on constitutional and public policy issues in the national media. He received his LL.B. degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and an LL.M. degree from Harvard University.
