Professor David Wiseman is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2010 and teaches first year Property and Access to Justice courses, as well as upper year courses in Trusts and Elder Law. Professor Wiseman is joint co-ordinator of the J.D. Program’s Social Justice Option and the co chair of the Admissions Committee. Professor Wiseman is also a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Professor Wiseman’s principal areas of research and activity are access to justice, social and economic human rights, and the institutional competence of courts in Charter litigation.