Faculty Profiles
Russell Brown, Associate Professor, B.A. (Brit. Col.), LL.B. (U. Vic.), LL.M., S.J.D. (Toronto)
Phone: (780) 492-1962
Russell Brown joined the Faculty in 2004. A recipient of the Faculty’s Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award, Professor Brown currently teaches Tort Law and Civil Procedure, and has also taught Property Law and Wills Law. His research interests lie generally within tort law (particularly recovery for pure economic loss, factual causation, governmental liability and the philosophy of tort law) and public authority common law liability for takings. His torts scholarship has appeared in (among other journals) the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, the Journal of International Biotechnology Law, the McGill Law Journal, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Dalhousie Law Journal and the University of British Columbia Law Review, and he has authored the sole comprehensive treatment of Canadian public authorities’ common law liability for takings. He has also researched and published on aspects of civil justice (notably on the civil jury but also on civil justice reform generally), frequently in collaboration with Dr. Moin Yahya. He has been called to the Bars of British Columbia (1995) and Alberta (2008).
Before studying law, Professor Brown worked within government, at provincial (British Columbia) and federal levels. He was also a Legislative Intern at British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly and has served on various public and private boards.
Professor Brown is a Fellow of the Alberta Institute for American Studies (formerly the Institute for United States Policy Studies) at the University of Alberta (see http://www.americanstudies.ualberta.ca/), a member of Civitas, a member of the governing board of the Canadian Forum for Civil Justice and of the advisory board to the Canadian Constitution Forum. He has served as Chair of both the University Appeals Board and the University Practice Review Board and is has sat on various committees of the University’s General Faculties Council. He is currently a member of the University’s Senate.
