ANIL KAPOOR graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1986 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.  He practices criminal law, appeal and trials, and regulatory law primarily in the area of professional discipline. He has been an adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School having taught The Law of Evidence and Trial Advocacy.  He is a regular lecturer at Continuing Legal Education Seminars sponsored by the National Judicial Institute, Law Society of Upper Canada, Federal Department of Justice, Ontario Court of Justice education programs, Ontario Crown Attorneys’ Association, Criminal Lawyer’s Association and the Advocates Society.  He has appeared numerous times before the Supreme Court of Canada, provincial courts of appeal in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.  He authored Kapoor’s Criminal Appeal Review, a LexisNexis online publication from 1999 to 2005 as well as numerous other publications in various legal and academic journals.  In 2006 he was appointed Commission Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 (the Air India Public Inquiry). In 2008 the federal government appointed Mr. Kapoor to a roster of Special Advocates who are security cleared to conduct National Security litigation pursuant to the security certificate provisions of the Immigration Refugee Protection Act and in a variety of other contexts.