Peter Carver
Research Fellow
Peter Carver B.A., M.A., LL.B., LL.M.
Phone: (780) 492-3313
Email: pcarver@law.ualberta.ca
Peter Carver's present teaching responsibilities at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, include Canadian Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Immigration Law and Mental Health & the Law. He is the coordinator of the Faculty's Perspectives Program for the first year law class on the subject of disability and the law. Professor Carver has a joint appointment between Law and the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. This joint appointment reflects his interests in health law and disability issues. After practising law in Vancouver, he joined the Office of the Ombudsman of B.C. in 1991. In 1997, he was appointed to the Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board, a federal tribunal. He has taught as a sessional instructor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, and the UBC Faculty of Law.
Publications
Peter Carver, "Fact or Fiction? Alberta Adopts the Community Treatment Order" (2010) 19:1 Health Law Review 17.
Peter Carver & Barbara Billingsley, "Sections 7 and 15(1) of the Charter and Access to the Public Purse: Evolution in the Law?" (2007) 36 Supreme Court Law Review 221.
Peter Carver, "Mental Health Law in Canada" in Jocelyn Downie, Timothy Caulfield & Colleen Flood, eds., Canadian Health Law and Policy, 3rd ed. (LexisNexis Canada, 2007) at 399.
Peter Carver, "Disability Rights and the Law" in David Turner & Max Uhlemann, eds., Law for the Helping Professions, 3rd ed. (Sedgwick Society, 2007) at 357.
The Long Arm of Administrative Law: Research Ethics Governance in Canada, with Michael Hadskis, (2005), 13 Health Law Review 19 -33.
The Dialogue Theory of Constitutional Review in Canada: Recent Challenges 36 Hosei Riron: Journal of Law and Politics (Niigata University) 390-407 (March 2004).
Mental Health Law, Chapter 13, pp. 268-303, in Canadian Medical Law, eds. B. Sneiderman, J. Irvine, and P. Osborne. (Carswell, 3rd edition, 2003).
Shelter from the Storm: A Comment on Suresh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (2002) 40:2 Alberta Law Review 465-493.
A New Direction for Mental Health Law: Brians Law and the Problematic Implications of Community Treatment Orders. Health Care Reform and the Law in Canada. (University of Alberta Press: Edmonton, 2001), eds. T.A. Caulfield and B. Von Tigerstrom.
