Benjamin L. Berger

Benjamin L Berger is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He earned his LLM and JSD from Yale University as a Fulbright Scholar and served as law clerk to the Rt Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of Canada. An award-winning scholar and teacher, his research seeks to foreground the experience of living within a culture of liberal legalism, with particular attention to the law of evidence, criminal and constitutional justice, sentencing, and law and religion. His books include Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism (UTP, 2015); Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-Jurisdictional and Multi-Religious Societies (UTP, 2025, co-edited with Pamela Klassen and Monique Scheer); Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (Hart, 2015, co-edited with Richard Moon); Unsettled Legacy: Thirty Years of Criminal Justice Under the Charter (LexisNexis, 2012, co-edited with James Stribopoulos); and The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (UBC, 2008, co-edited with Hamar Foster and Andrew Buck).