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Michael A. Geist
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LL.B. (Osgoode), LL.M., (Cambridge) LL.M. (Columbia), Assistant Professor
Michael Geist is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa Law School in Ottawa, Ontario. Following his 1992 graduation from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, Professor Geist travelled to Kobe, Japan where, as a Monbusho Scholar, he conducted legal research into foreign investment regulation at the Kobe University School of Law. Before returning to Toronto in 1994, he completed his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at Cambridge University in England specializing in commercial and European Union law. Following a year of corporate practice at the Toronto office of Goodman, Phillips & Vineberg, Professor Geist joined the Dalhousie Law School faculty in Halifax, Canada as an Assistant Professor of Law where he taught contracts and corporations law. In 1996, he joined the Columbia Law School faculty as an Associate-in-Law where he taught Legal Research and Writing while completing work towards a Doctorate in Juridical Science (J.S.D.). Professor Geist joined the Ottawa faculty in 1998 where he teaches in the Internet and technology field.
Over the past several years, Professor Geist has assumed a leading role in incorporating the Internet into legal education. His activities in this regard include numerous conference presentations, the creation of advanced course Web site materials, and scholarly publications, including his 1997 article, Where Can You Go Today?: The Computerization of Legal Education from Workbooks to the Web, which appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Professor Geist is a CALI Editorial Board Member and is an Advisory Board member of the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Reform Bibliographic Database Web Site. He has also authored several articles focusing on international business law and is the recipient of numerous academic awards including a Fulbright Scholarship and an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.
For more information relating to Michael Geist visit his web site at www.lawbytes.com. Michael Geist can be contacted by e-mail at mgeist@uottawa.ca.
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