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B.A Hons. (McGill), LL.B (McGill), B.C.L (McGill), LL.M (Queen Mary College, London-Intellectual Property Law), of Osgoode Hall, Barrister-at-law, also of the Bar of Quebec (1986-2000)

A former Associate Dean (1998-2000) and more recently, Acting Dean (July-December 2011), Professor Tawfik currently teaches Copyright Law, Trademark Law and the Advanced IP/Business Law Practicum (the CEL course). She is the Director (Law) of the Centre for Enterprise and Law (CEL), a partnership with the Odette School of Business offering legal and business support to local entrepreneurs.

Recent Publications:

Myra J. Tawfik, International Copyright Law, Access to Knowledge and Social Justice – S. Ilcan, ed., Mobilities, Knowledge and Social Justice (McGill-Queen’s University Press - in press)

Myra J. Tawfik, The Future of International Intellectual Property Law: Remembering the Past -(2012) 89 UDM LAW Review 373

Myra J. Tawfik, International Trademark Law (Chapter 14) in B. Amani, C. Craig Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Cases, Materials and Commentary (Toronto: Carswell, 2011)

Myra J. Tawfik, History in the Balance: Copyright Law and Access to Knowledgein Geist M., ed From "Radical Extremism" to Balanced Copyright (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010) 

Sukanya Pillay and Myra J Tawfik, Internet Law, the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Toronto: Westlaw Carswell, 2008)

Myra J. Tawfik, When Intellectual Property Rights Converge: Tracing the Contours and Mapping the Fault Lines 'Case by Case' and 'Law by Law' in An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm: Perspectives from Canada, Gendreau Y., ed., (London: Edward Elgar, 2008)

Myra J. Tawfik, No Longer Living in Splendid Isolation: The Globalization of National Courts and the Internationalization of Intellectual PropertyLaw (2007) 32 Queen's LJ (no. 2) 573-601

Myra J. Tawfik, International Copyright Law: W[h]ither User Rights? - Chapter 3 in In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, Geist, M., ed., (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005)

Current Research:

Monograph on early Canadian copyright law history 1824-1924