Giuseppina d'Agostino

Giuseppina (Pina) D'Agostino is a Canadian lawyer and legal scholar specializing in intellectual property law who teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School. In 2025 she took on a one-year term as an associate vice-president at York University. She is regularly called upon by the Canadian Federal and Provincial governments for advice and is a cited authority at the Supreme Court of Canada. In May 2026, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced her appointment to the Federal Court.

Life She earned an LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Masters and D.Phil. degrees at the University of Oxford where she formerly lectured. and co-edited The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (2010) and Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law (2021).

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the first IP law blog of its kind. In 2023 she became the first vice-director of "Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society", a new research project that received over $300 million in funding. She later became its director.

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