Julia Shin Doi is Counsel in the Office of the Counsel at York University, practising corporate/commercial law, intellectual property law and privacy law. Ms. Shin Doi also represents York University in a broad range of legal matters.

Prior to joining York University, Ms. Shin Doi was Associate General Counsel of Imax Corporation and an Associate with the Business Law Group at Gowlings.

Ms. Shin Doi is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where she has taught Legal Drafting since 2001. She is the past Director of the Osgoode Business Clinic, past Assistant Director of the LL.M. in Business Law and past Instructor of Osgoode Professional Development’s Commercial Legal Drafting Workshop.

Ms. Shin Doi is the co-author of the leading Canadian text on drafting boilerplate contract clauses, Behind and Beyond Boilerplate: Drafting Commercial Agreements (Carswell). She has also published and presented in the areas of licensing, securing copyright, and privacy law, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada’s Canadian Intellectual Property Review.

She is a member of the Canadian Association of University Solicitors and participates in the Privacy Task Force of the Council of Ontario Universities. Ms. Shin Doi is an executive member of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, Greater Toronto Area Chapter and the Ontario Bar Association’s Privacy Section, and past executive member of the Entertainment, Media & Communications Section. She is the founding member and past director of the Korean Canadian Lawyers Association and the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers. Ms. Shin Doi has been nominated as an early and exceptional lawyer from a diverse community for The Law Society of Upper Canada’s Diversifying the Bar: Lawyers Make History Project.

Ms. Shin Doi holds a B.A. with Distinction from University of Toronto (1989) and J.D. and LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1992, 2007), is called to the Ontario Bar (1994), and is a Registered Trade-mark Agent (2006).