Carys Craig
Dr. Carys Craig is a Professor and the Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations) at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, in Toronto, Canada. Professor Craig teaches JD, graduate, and professional courses in intellectual property, copyright and trademark law, and legal theory. She is the Director of IP Osgoode, Osgoode’s Intellectual Property & Technology Law program, Academic Director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Intellectual Property Law, and recently served as Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2020-24). She is the recipient of York University’s President’s University-Wide Teaching Award and the Institute of International Education’s Outstanding Service Award.
An internationally recognized scholar, Professor Craig is frequently invited to share her work and expertise with academic audiences, professional organizations, policymakers, and the press. Her publications are regularly cited in legal arguments and judicial opinions, including in several landmark rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada. She is the author of Copyright, Communication & Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar), and co-editor of Trade-marks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Commentary, 2nd ed. (Carswell) and Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law, 2nd ed. (Carswell). Recent scholarly publications include, e.g., “Copyright and gender: feminist philosophies and the politics of proof", in Lai & Bowrey (eds.), A Research Agenda for Intellectual Property Law and Gender; “The AI-Copyright Challenge: Tech-Neutrality, Authorship, and the Public Interest” in Ryan Abbott (ed.) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (2022); and “The Death of the AI Author” with Ian Kerr, 52(1) Ottawa Law Review 33-86 (2021).
Dr. Craig holds a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Laws from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Toronto.