David Blaikie earned the LL.B. at Dalhousie Law School.
Assistant Professor
Telephone: (902) 494-1010
E-mail: david.blaikie@dal.ca
Biography:
David L. Blaikie teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility and Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Schulich School of Law. He has a cross appointment with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Engineering where he lectures on tort law. He has also developed and taught courses in law at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam and the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Professor Blaikie has undergraduate degrees in philosophy and law from Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts (B.A.) and Dalhousie Law School (LL.B.), and graduate degrees in theology and law from Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1993 and practised mainly insurance defence litigation with the Nova Scotia firm of Patterson Palmer in Truro (now Patterson Law). While in practice, he appeared before various administrative tribunals and courts in Nova Scotia, and wrote briefs for the Supreme Court of Canada. Before pursuing a legal career, he worked as an editor with World Vision Canada and as a correctional officer at a provincial jail.
He is a founder and co-editor (with Dr. Marie-Claude Rigaud, University of Montreal) of The Journal of Arbitration and Mediation. This new international journal, which was started in 2010, is a joint initiative of the University of Sherbrooke School of Law, the Canadian Arbitration Congress and the Schulich School of Law. The journal's mission is to encourage in-depth reflection and debate on issues of concern to both academics and practitioners interested in arbitration and mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution.
Professor Blaikie is the author or co-author of several articles and book chapters, primarily in the area of law and religion. He is the co-author of two books (with Professor Diana Ginn) on the law governing religious organizations in Canada and the United States: The Legal Guide for Canadian Churches (Ottawa: Novalis, 2006) and The Legal Guide for Religious Institutions (New York: Continuum, 2010). He is writing a volume of Halsbury's Laws of Canada on the law of damages (Lexis Nexis). He is also co-editing a book, On Being a Lawyer (Irwin Law), with Darrel Pink, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada. Comprised of about 16 short essays written for the general reader by a diverse group of Canadians, judges, lawyers, artists, academics and journalists, the book will present a balanced discussion and critique of lawyers and lawyering in Canada.
Professor Blaikie is the 2002-2003 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching Law, from the Dalhousie Law Alumni Association and the Dalhousie Law Students' Society, and the 2005-2006 recipient of the Hanna and Harold Barnett Award in Law for excellence in teaching first-year law, presented by the Dalhousie Law Students' Society. He received the Class Ring from the graduating class of 2002 and also from the class of 2010.
He is a board director of the Johnson Scholarship Foundation, an American foundation based in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a mission to assist disadvantaged people attain an education. He is a past board director of the Presbyterian Record, Toronto, Ontario, a magazine published for the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and past director and board chair of the Colchester Residential Services Society, Truro, Nova Scotia, a non-profit organization that provides housing and other services to persons with disabilities.
Professor Blaikie is married to Gay Whitney and they have two daughters, Laura and Kathryn.
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