Philip Bryden

Biography

 Professor Philip Bryden served as Dean of Law at the University of Alberta from 2009 to 2014. During the 2014-15 academic year he will be on administrative leave, spending the fall term as the Schulich Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law and the winter term as a Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide’s Adelaide Law School. Prior to joining the University of Alberta, Professor Bryden served as Dean of Law at the University of New Brunswick from 2004 to 2009. Before moving to the University of New Brunswick, he was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 2004 and served as the Faculty's Associate Dean from 1993 to 1996. In addition to his career as an academic, Professor Bryden practiced law in New York City with Donovan Leisure Newton and Irvine from 1979 to 1981. He also served as a special assistant to Canadian Secretary of State Gerald Reagan (1981 to 1982) and as a law clerk to Madam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1983 to 1984). From 1993 to 2004 he carried on a part-time practice of law as Associate Counsel to Heenan Blaikie in Vancouver.

Research Interest

 Law