Schulich School of Law
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495

Research, Journals and Publications

Professor Steve Coughlan (centre) is one of Canada's leading criminal law scholars, and has also received several awards for his teaching.

Our research mission is encapsulated in a motto inscribed in a stained-glass window in the dean’s office:  Dalhousie Law faculty seek “to embrace knowledge of law in all its implications and as an instrument for achieving great social ends.”  

Faculty members with national and international reputations seek to advance the frontiers of legal knowledge using a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives. Research is carried on across the spectrum of public and private law, and emphasizes international, comparative, interdisciplinary, historical and critical approaches.

The Schulich School of Law is home to two Canada Research Chairs, in Ocean Law and Governance and in Health Law and Policy; three institutes: the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, the Health Law Institute, and the Law and Technology Institute; the Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law; and two University Research Professorship.  Three learned journals are edited by faculty members:  the Dalhousie Law Journal, the Ocean Yearbook, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. 

Professors Philip Girard and Richard Devlin Appointed University Research Professors

Professor Philip Girard has been appointed University Research Professor for a five year term (2006-2011).  This honour is awarded by the University to a limited number of faculty members who have made outstanding contributions through their research work.  Only 15 Professorships are in effect at any time, and Professor Girard joins Professor Richard Devlin as the second member of the Schulich School of Law to be recognized with this award.