Faculty Profiles
Russell Brown, Associate Professor, B.A. (Brit. Col.), LL.B. (U. Vic.), LL.M., S.J.D. (Toronto)
Phone: (780) 492-1962
Dr Russell Brown joined the Faculty of Law in 2004. A recipient of the Faculty’s Tevie H Miller Teaching Excellence Award, Professor Brown currently teaches Tort Law and Civil Procedure. His research interests lie generally within tort law (particularly recovery for pure economic loss and factual causation) and public authority common law liability for takings. He is the author of Pure Economic Loss in the Canadian Law of Negligence (LexisNexis, 2011) (http://www.lexisnexis.ca/bookstore/bookinfo.php?pid=2156). His torts scholarship has also appeared in (among other journals) the McGill Law Journal, the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, the Journal of International Biotechnology Law, the Dalhousie Law Journal, the University of British Columbia Law Review, and the Canadian Business Law Journal, and he has authored the sole comprehensive treatment of Canadian public authorities’ common law liability for takings. His work was recognized with an award for “outstanding paper” from the Literati Network (UK). In addition to contributing to academic conference proceedings, he has been invited to speak to lawyers, judges and policy-makers across Canada and in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He has been called to the Bars of British Columbia (1995) and Alberta (2008).
Before studying law, Professor Brown worked within provincial (British Columbia) and federal governments. He was also a Legislative Intern at British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly and has served on various public and private boards.
Professor Brown is presently the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) of the Faculty of Law. He is also the Chair of the Health Law Institute Board (http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/hli/), a member of the governing board for the Canadian Forum for Civil Justice (http://cfcj-fcjc.org/), and an advisor to the Canadian Constitution Forum and to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. He has served as Chair of both the University Appeals Board and the University Practice Review Board and has sat on various committees of the University’s General Faculties Council.
Professor Brown supervises graduate students at both the LLM and PhD level.
