Doug Sarro
Doug Sarro
Assistant Professor




Biography

Doug Sarro’s research focuses on corporate law, securities regulation, and the relationships among innovation, law, and politics.

His recent work appears in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, UBC Law Review, Queen's Law Journal, Canadian Business Law Journal, and Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. He has also commented on business law issues for the Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, and other media outlets.

Before pursuing an academic career, Doug clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, and was a senior advisor at the Ontario Securities Commission. He remains engaged in the securities industry as Chair of CFA Societies Canada’s Advocacy Council.

Doug holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he graduated as gold medallist, and an SJD (doctorate in law) from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the bars of New York and Ontario and is a CFA charterholder.

Selected Publications

Corporate Veil-Piercing and Structures of Canadian Business Law” (2022) 55 UBC Law Review 203–50.

Incentives, Experts, and Regulatory Renewal” (2021) 47 Queen’s Law Journal 38–77.
- David Watson Memorial Prize for most significant contribution to Queen’s Law Journal volume 47.

Proxy Advisors as Issue Spotters” (2021) 15 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 371–419.

Measure Once, Cut Twice’: Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. v. Ontario (Attorney General) and the Interpretation of Indemnities” (2019) 62 Canadian Business Law Journal 1–34 (with Paul J. Davis).

In Search of Things Past and Future: Judicial Activism and Corporate Purpose” (2018) 55 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 791–826 (with Ed Waitzer).

Additional publications available on SSRN.