Janet Walker, B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.B., D.Phil. (Oxon), is Professor of Law and former Associate Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Walker specializes in domestic and international procedural law, including conflict of laws and international commercial arbitration. She is the author of Castel & Walker, Canadian Conflict of Laws and Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Conflict of Laws, and is the general editor of the recent editions of The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials. Professor Walker is the common law advisor to the Federal Courts Rules Committee, and she was an international advisor to the American Law Institute Project on Transnational Principles and Rules of Civil Procedure. As Oxford’s 2010 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, she will develop ways to introduce procedural law into the undergraduate curriculum.