Faculty Profiles
David R. Percy, Q.C. Borden Ladner Gervais Chair in Energy Law and Policy, M.A. (Oxford), LL.M. (Virginia)
Phone: (780) 492-5537
Professor David Percy became Dean of the Faculty of Law in 2002 and served in this role until 2009. His teaching and research interests are in contracts, construction law and natural resources law, including oil and gas law. He is co-editor of Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, now in its seventh edition and used at law schools across Canada. He wrote The Framework of Water Rights Legislation in Canada, as well as books on Wetlands and Ground Water. Dean Percy is a former President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers.
In 1995, Professor Percy received the W.P.M. Kennedy Award for outstanding merit as a law teacher in Canada; in 1996, he won the Rutherford Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Alberta. In 1999, Professor Percy received the Tevie H.Miller Teaching Excellence Award in the Faculty of Law.
Since 2000, Dean Percy has worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on water law and agriculture in six African countries.
Special Interests: Dean Percy was an international rugby referee and continues to referee rugby in Alberta. He pursues interests in hiking and cross country skiing. He enjoys theatre, music and is an avid movie goer.
