Martin Friedland

Overview

Martin Friedland, C.C., Q.C., is University Professor and James M. Tory Professor of Law Emeritus at the Faculty of Law. He holds a B.Comm., LL.B., and honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. and LL.D from Cambridge University. Professor Friedland taught at Osgoode Hall Law School until 1965 when he joined the University of Toronto as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1968 and served as dean from 1972-1979. He also served as a full time member of the Law Reform Commission of Canada in Ottawa from 1971 to 1972. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983 and in 1985 was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers/Law Reform Commission of Canada Award for an 'Outstanding Contribution to Legal Research and Law Reform.' In 1987 he was awarded the University of Toronto Alumni Faculty Award, in 1990 was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2003 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1994 he received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award and the Criminal Lawyers Association's G. Arthur Martin Award, and in 1995 was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences for 'outstanding achievements and exceptional contribution to the enrichment of the cultural life of Canada.' He received the Royal Society of Canada's John William Dawson Medal in 2003 for 'important contributions of knowledge in multiple domains'. He is currently a fellow of Massey College. Professor Friedland specializes in Criminal Law and is author or editor of twenty books including Detention Before Trial, Double Jeopardy, Access to the Law, A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Canada, The Trials of Israel Lipski, The Case of Valentine Shortis, The Death of Old Man Rice, My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures, Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy, and Canadian Criminal Law in Ten Cases, as well as many law review articles and reports. His book The University of Toronto: A History was published in 2002, on the 175th anniversary of the University's foundation. A second edition, with a new introduction, was published in 2013.