Morris Odeh
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.Associate at Gowling WLG
- Called to the bar
- 2025
- Languages
- English
Civil Litigation & Dispute ResolutionCivil Litigation & Dispute ResolutionAbout Morris Odeh
Morris Odeh handles complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution as an associate in Gowling WLG's Toronto office, working within the firm's Advocacy Department. The files come from several sectors, with construction, insurance, transportation and finance among them.
Odeh isn't new to the courtroom side of business disputes. Before coming to Canada's bar, Odeh spent several years as a commercial litigator at a full-service firm abroad, advising public and private companies on matters as varied as negligence, breach of contract, defamation, oil spills and urgent injunctions. The call in Nigeria came in 2016, and Ontario followed in 2025.
Research runs alongside the practice. Odeh's Master of Laws at Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law, which asked whether an invention generated by AI could hold up as intellectual property under Canada's patent regime, earned one of the two Governor General's Gold Medals Dalhousie awarded in 2023. During those studies, Odeh also taught legal ethics to first-year students and worked as a teaching assistant and research associate.
Today the associate is also a Vanier Scholar and doctoral researcher at Schulich, studying how collaborative regional platforms can support fair trade, development and business across Africa.
Practice areas
Commercial litigation
Complex commercial disputes for clients in construction, insurance, transportation and the financial sector, handled through Gowling WLG's Advocacy Department.
Liability, contract and injunction work
Prior experience as a commercial litigator abroad covered negligence, product and professional liability, breach of contract, defamation and oil spill matters, along with urgent injunctive relief, for both public and private companies.
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Education & credentials
- Year of Call, Ontario (2025)
- Year of Call, Nigeria (2016)
- Master of Laws (LLM), Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (2022)
- Barrister-at-Law (BL), Nigerian Law School (2016)
- LLB, Benue State University, Nigeria (2015)
Awards & recognition
- Governor General's Gold Medal, Dalhousie University (2023)
Publications & speaking
- Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Access to Algorithmic Training Materials and the Three-Step Test for Text and Data Mining in Nigeria, The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2024)
- The Political Economy of the "Bitcoin" Experiment in the Central African Republic, Afronomics Law (2022)
- Patenting Inventions Generated by Artificial Intelligence: The Way Forward, The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law (2020)
- False Online Publication Injurious to Another: An Examination of Prank as a Defence under Nigerian Law, SSRN (2019)
Memberships & affiliations
- The Advocates' Society: Odeh is a member.
- Toronto Lawyers Association: Odeh is a member.
- Canadian Association of Black Lawyers: Odeh is a member.
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: Odeh is a member.
- Nigerian Bar Association: Odeh is a member.
In the community
- Developed content for Dalhousie University's Human Rights and Equity Services from 2022 to 2024.
- Sat on the Graduate Studies Committee at Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law from 2022 to 2023.
- Served as vice president of the Dalhousie Law Graduate Society from 2021 to 2022.
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