Eugene Oscapella

Eugene Oscapella, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., is a Barrister and Solicitor in Ottawa, Canada. Mr. Oscapella completed undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Toronto in 1974 and received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of Ottawa in 1977. He obtained his Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1979. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980. From 1980 to 1981, Mr. Oscapella served as a commission counsel with the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. From 1982 to 1985, he was Director of Legislation and Law Reform for the Canadian Bar Association. Since 1985, Mr. Oscapella has been an independent adviser on Canadian legislative and social policy issues.

Mr. Oscapella has written and lectured extensively in Canada and abroad on privacy and drug policy issues. He is a former chair of the drug-policy group of the Law Reform Commission of Canada and a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. He sat for several years on the policy committee of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association and is a member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation, a drug-policy think-tank based in New York and Washington, DC.