Mayo Moran

Professor Moran is the inaugural Irving and Rosalie Abella Chair in Justice and Equality at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.  She was the first woman to serve as Dean of that faculty and went on to be Provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto.  Her awards include the Law Society Medal, the Jus Influential Leader Award, the President’s Impact Award, the Carolyn Tuohy Public Policy, and the YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Award.  

Professor Moran currently focuses on issues of historic injustice such as residential schools, the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis, and the restitution of cultural belongings, which are among the topics covered in her forthcoming book, Making Amends for Historic Wrongs: Reparative Justice and the Problem of the Past (OUP). She also co-founded the Restitution Dialogues which addresses the ‘restitution revolution’. Her policy work includes 14 years as chair of the committee that oversaw the multi-billion dollar compensation process for residential school survivors, as well as serving on the working group to improve Germany’s Holocaust restitution process.

Her teaching areas include private law and “Ten Cases that Changed the World”, which MacLeans Magazine highlighted as one of UofT’s “cool courses”.