John McCamus, a Professor of Law and University Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, is an affiliated scholar with the firm. As such, John has provided advice to clients of the firm principally with respect to private law issues arising in the context of transactions and litigation.

Prior to joining the faculty at Osgoode, he articled with a Toronto firm and served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for Chief Justice Laskin. At Osgoode, his principal areas of research and teaching have included private law, especially restitution and contract, commercial law and information practices law. His published work includes two texts, The Law of Contracts (2005) and The Law of Restitution, 2d ed., (2004) the latter volume co-authored with P.D. Maddaugh.

While Dean of Osgoode Hall, John served as Chair to the Committee of Ontario Law Deans and of the Committee of Canadian Law Deans. He is the recipient of the Mundell Medal for Excellence in Legal Literature (A.G. Ont.), the Walter Owen Book Prize (Canadian Bar Association) and the Law Society Medal (Law Society of Upper Canada). Since 1998, he has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment 3d. He is an experienced adjudicator in human rights and labour disputes and served as a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Crown Employees Grievance Settlement Board from 1987-1996. He has served as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. He has appeared as an expert witness on Ontario law in proceedings in Québec, Switzerland and various American states and as counsel at the trial and appellate levels in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada.

John has an extensive record of participation in law reform. Recent activities include service, from 1993-1996, as Chair of the Ontario Law Reform Commission. During part of that period, he served on the Senior Management Committee of the Ministry of the Attorney General with responsibility for policy development. During his tenure as Chair, the Commission produced reports on a broad range of subjects, including the law of charities, the law of property, pension division, adjudication of workplace disputes and various aspects of privacy law. From 1994-1996, John served as Co-Chair of a committee on fundamental issues for the Ontario Civil Justice Review, a joint task force of the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ontario Court (General Division). In December of 1996, John was appointed by the Attorney General of Ontario to chair the Ontario Legal Aid Review, an independent task force established to examine the legal aid system in Ontario and make any recommendations considered appropriate with respect to its reform. The Review's three-volume report, A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services, was published in September 1997. The recommendations in the report have been implemented in the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998, the new governing legislation for the legal aid system in Ontario.

His educational background includes degrees in Philosophy from the Universities of Western Ontario and Toronto and in law from the Universities of Toronto and London.

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