Professor Carol Rogerson

Professor Carol Rogerson is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1983. She received the SAC-APUS teaching award in 1985, the Mewett teaching award in 2012, and was Associate Dean of the faculty from 1991 to 1993. She teaches and writes in the areas of family law, constitutional law, and children and the law. In constitutional law she is one of the executive editors of a leading casebook on constitutional law. In family law she has written extensively on spousal and child support issues and for several years reviewed the Supreme Court of Canada’s family law decisions for the Supreme Court Law Review. She is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programmes for judges and lawyers and has worked with both the federal and provincial governments on issues of family law reform. Most recently, she and Professor Rollie Thompson from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University directed a Justice Canada project that resulted in the development of a national set of Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (2001-2008). Professor Rogerson has been a member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law since 2011. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Carolyn Tuohy award, given by the University of Toronto to a faculty member whose work has had a significant impact on Public Policy.

A full list of her publications can be found on the University of Toronto website.