THE WELDON PROFESSORS Professor OLABISI AKINKUGBE teaches Contracts and JudicialDecision Making, International Trade Law, and International Human Rights Law. He is an Editor and Co-founder of Afronomicslaw Blog - a blog dedicated to the analysis of all issues relating to international economic law in the Global South. He co-organized the 2019 Purdy Crawford workshop. His stream theme was Sustainable Development Goals, Trade, Investment, and Inequality. He is currently planning a workshop in September 2020 on Theoretical and Methodological Approaches for the Study of International Economic Law in the Global South. The workshop builds on an earlier online symposium. Professor NAYHA ACHARYA teaches Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Ethics, and Introduction to Law for undergraduate students. Her central research focus right now is ADR, in particular, mediation as a dispute resolution process. She also writes about procedural theory generally, and has written and presented at a workshop on higher education teaching and learning this year. Professor Emeritus BRUCE ARCHIBALD published Capabilities Approaches and Labour Law through a Relational and Restorative Lens in Brian Langille (ed) The Capability Approach to Labour Law and Restorative Regulation of Criminality at Work in Canada in the volume Criminality at Work, edited by Alan Bogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland and Jonathan Herring. Both books were published by Oxford University Press. He is enjoying the freedom from regular teaching which flows from his new emeritus status and the privilege of supervising graduate students and doing bits of research. Professor KIM BROOKS is grateful to have been able to get to know many of the members of the graduating class of 2020 and is sorry she missed out out on raising a glass to them in person in May. She was delighted with the hard work of the Bowman moot team and with students in tax, international tax, and the Dalhousie Law Journal courses. She’s excited about the launch of our renovated Business Law Specialization. 2019-2020 was the ‘year of Japan’ for Professor ALDO CHIRCOP. On behalf of MELAW, he was convenor of the first Canadian-Japanese Scholarly Exchange on the Law of the Sea for leading subject scholars from across Canada and Japan, with generous support of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). He was also MOFA guest at ocean law workshops in Kobe and Tokyo and gave a keynote address at a virtual conference in Sapporo. Professor STEVE COUGHLAN brought out a new book, co-authored with Alex Gorlewski (’13), entitled The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law. The book takes a unique approach, setting out the rules of the criminal justice system in seventy separate annotated flowcharts. The book functions on a stand-alone basis, but is also a companion volume to Steve’s Criminal Procedure, the fourth edition of which appeared this year. Two of Steve’s other books Detention and Arrest, and Canadian Law Dictionary, originally authored by John Yogis (’64) were cited by the Supreme Court of Canada this year. In addition, he was chosen by Canadian Lawyer as one of the Top 25 Most Influential in the Justice System for 2019. Professor ROB CURRIE was delighted to see the publication of two textbooks: Kindred’s International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 9th ed (co-edited with colleague Phillip Saunders), published in the fall of 2019; and the third edition of International & Transnational Criminal Law (co-authored with Joseph Rikhof), published January 2020. He is also pleased to be teaching a new experiential learning course, Criminal Appeals Practice, which he co-created with Schulich grad Lee Seshagiri (’06). 54 |
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Associate Dean, Academic MICHAEL DETURBIDE was busy organizing the transition of classes and examinations online in 2020. He taught Business Associations, and was acting Director of the Law and Technology Institute in 2020. He chaired the Studies Committee and was a member of the Academic Committee and Admissions Committee. His new book (with Professor Teresa Scassa of the University of Ottawa) entitled Digital Commerce in Canada was published in April by LexisNexis. Acting Dean RICHARD DEVLIN has continued to serve as Chair for the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. In that role, in collaboration with the Board of Directors, he has provided feedback to Canadian Judicial Council on revisions to the Ethical Principles for Judges. In particular, CALE has argued that the Principles should: 1) be reconstituted as a code of conduct, 2) address Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples; 3) include an explicit duty of judicial confidentiality, 4) pursue a larger discussion of judges’ obligations to promote access to justice; 5) endorse technological competence; and 6) provide guidance on post-retirement return to practice. Professor JOCELYN DOWNIE was excited to launch two new courses in public policy and law. First was an intensive course that brought students and major players together to explore the case study for this year - the process of changing abortion policy on Prince Edward Island. Second was a seminar that she co-taught with Laurel Broten (President and CEO of Nova Scotia Business Inc. and former Ontario Minister of Environment, Children & Youth Services, Women’s Issues, Education, and Intergovernmental Affairs). She also released a personal directives app to enable Nova Scotians to ensure their health and other personal care wishes are followed when they can longer speak for themselves (in collaboration with the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia - see legalinfo.org “online apps”). Professor MARIA DUGAS teaches Legal Research and Writing and Torts. In October she presented at a judicial conference run by the National Judicial Institute. She was also a panelist at the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers’ Annual Conference held in Halifax, speaking about alternative legal careers. This summer she plans to continue her work in Critical Race Legal Theory, looking at issues around racism in sport. Professor ELAINE GIBSON had a busy year teaching tort law and damage compensation, medical malpractice, public health law, and introduction to legal ethics. She has been researching and speaking about the failures of the tort system to provide adequate redress to victims of medical malpractice and, in recent months, state quarantine powers in times of pandemic, as well as the need for provision of personal protective equipment to health care providers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Professor DIANA GINN continues to publish in the field of law and religion. Along with three co-applicants, she has received a SSHRC Connections Grant to explore possible links between how public schools teach about religion, and students’ understandings of citizenship. She is involved with an Access to Justice Project on procedural fairness before administrative tribunals, and continues to update the Nova Scotia Real Property Practice Manual. This year, Professor Ginn taught Property Law and ADR.
