Giuseppina d'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino
NationalityCanadian
Alma materOsgoode Hall Law School, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Lawyer, legal scholar
EmployerOsgoode Hall Law School
Known forIntellectual property law

Giuseppina (Pina) D'Agostino is a Canadian lawyer and legal scholar specializing in intellectual property law who teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School.[1] In 2025 she took on a one-year term as an associate vice-president at York University.[2] 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.

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.[1] She is a visiting scholar at the law school of Stanford University.

She is the author of Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules (2010)[3] 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).[4]

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the first IP law blog of its kind.[5] 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.[6] She later became its director.[7]

Works

  • D'Agostino, Giuseppina (2007). Fair Dealing After CCH (PDF). Canadian Heritage, Copyright Policy Branch. ISBN 978-0-662-46883-7. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  • D'Agostino, Giuseppina (2008). "Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canadian Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and US Fair Use" (PDF). McGill Law Journal. 53 (2). SSRN 1014404.
  • D'Agostino, G. (2010). Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84980-520-9. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  • Ng, C.; Bently, L.; D'Agostino, G. (2010). "Was There Ever a Common Law of Intellectual Property?". The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84731-593-9. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  • D'Agostino, Giuseppina (Pina); Gaon, Aviv; Piovesan, Carole, eds. (2021). Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and A Toolkit For Lawyers And The Law. Thomson Reuters. ISBN 978-0-7798-9871-8.

References

  1. ^ a b Waugh, Jeffrey H. (November 3, 2008). "Osgoode Hall offers up new IP resource to students". Canadian Lawyer. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. ^ Asif, Amir (2025-04-02). "Appointment of Pina D'Agostino as associate vice-president research". YFile. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  3. ^ Scassa, Teresa (2011). "Giuseppina D'Agostino, Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010)". Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. 9 (1–2): 93–98. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  4. ^ Kratz, Martin (2021-09-22). "Book Review: Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law". Slaw. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  5. ^ "D'Agostino, Giuseppina - Osgoode Hall Law School". Osgoode.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  6. ^ Dino, Angelica. "Osgoode professor Pina D'Agostino named as vice-director of multimillion AI research initiative". Law Times. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  7. ^ "Welcoming New Leadership". Connected Minds. Retrieved 2025-05-14.