HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495
Dawn Russell
B.A. (St. Thomas Univ.) 1977; LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1981; LL.M. (Cambridge) 1985.
Associate Professor
Telephone: (902) 494-7115
E-mail: dawn.russell@dal.ca
Professor Russell practiced law in Halifax for five years with the leading Atlantic law firm of Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales before beginning her career as a law teacher in 1987. She has taught in the areas of International Law, Law of the Sea and Ocean Law and Policy. Her writings have focused on international and comparative oceans law and policy, particularly on topics such as domestic fisheries management, the role of international fisheries organizations, high seas fishing of straddling stocks, and maritime boundary delimitation. Professor Russell is on the Editorial Advisory Board of International Insights and of the Ocean Yearbook. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Council on International Law and of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law.
Dean, Dalhousie Law School, (July 1, 1996 -June 30, 2005); Acting Dean, 1995-1996; Associate Professor, 1992-present; Assistant Professor 1987-1992; Associate Lawyer, Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, 1983-1987 and associated on a part-time basis with the same firm until July 31, 1995. Admitted to the New Brunswick Bar, August 1982, and to the Nova Scotia Bar, February 1983; Co-Chair of the Nova Scotia Law Reform Commission, 1995-2002.
Professor Russell is on leave effective July 1, 2011. She is currently the President of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Teaching subjects:
International Law, Business Associations, Law of the Sea and Oceans Law and Policy.
Publications in scholarly and professional journals, including:
- "Managing Fisheries Resources Beyond 200 Miles: Canada's Options to Protect Northwest Atlantic Straddling Stocks", Oceans Institute of Canada, 1990;
- co-author of Supreme Court of Canada Decision-Making: The Benchmarks of Rand, Kerwin and Martland (Carswell, 1990);
- "Paedophilia: The Criminal Responsibility of Canada's Churches" (1992) 15 Dalhousie Law Journal 380.
Research interests:
Corporate Law; Law of the Sea, International Law; Maritime Boundary Limitation, UN Reform, UN Enforcement Actions.
Professional activities:
Editorial Board, Ocean Yearbook; Executive Board, Canadian Council on International Law; Member, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society Bar Council; Director, Oxford Frozen Foods; Public Director, Canadian Investor Protection Fund.
Courses:
Selected Publications:
The Regulation Of Tidal Energy Development Off Nova Scotia: Navigating Foggy Waters (2006)