Prof. Alexandra Mogyoros is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research explores the relationships between branding, trust, intellectual property, and freedom of expression. She teaches property law, intellectual property law, and first-year legal methods.
Alongside her academic work, Prof. Mogyoros advises governments, public agencies, and non-profit organizations on intellectual property policy, law and technology, constitutional law, advertising regulation, and access to information.
She holds an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in biology and philosophy from the University of Guelph and a Juris Doctor from the University of Ottawa. She earned a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) with Distinction from St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, and completed her DPhil in Intellectual Property Law at St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research examined certification trademarks, including sustainability labels and other ethical signalling mechanisms. Her graduate studies were supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship.
Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University, Prof. Mogyoros held research roles and fellowships at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Edinburgh, Cape Town, and Oxford. She clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justices Thomas Cromwell and Malcolm Rowe, completed her articles at a Toronto litigation boutique, and practised litigation in Ontario. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.
Prof. Mogyoros is also an Associate Member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
