Dr Grant Hoole joined the law faculty in 2016 as a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on institutionalised legal responses to systemic wrongdoing, or wrongdoing that arises from defects in the internal practices, culture, or regulation of organisations and administrative systems. More broadly, Grant is interested in exploring how legal methods and procedures are best adapted to address multifaceted social problems that are not easily managed through conventional adversarial disputes. His current projects include a critical review of procedures employed by Australian anti-corruption commissions, and internationally comparative research on the design of ad hoc commissions of inquiry.

Grant received concurrent common and civil law degrees from McGill University in 2006 and practised law as a litigator in Canada for two years before pursuing graduate legal studies. He holds an LLM from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Ottawa, where his dissertation examined the link between constitutional principles and the conduct of judge-led commissions of inquiry. He is a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, where he directs the Inquisitorial Justice Project.

Grant teaches in the faculty’s core program in legal ethics.