Gerard Kennedy

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Gerard J. Kennedy, BA (Hons), JD, LLM, PhD is Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. His scholarship concentrates on the role of courts in society, specifically through analyzing civil justice and procedure and administrative law and procedure, and public law more generally. He has authored over thirty journal articles on these topics, and five books, including The Charter of Rights in Litigation: Direction from the Supreme Court of Canada; The Civil Litigation Process (with Janet Walker, Erik Knutsen, and Catherine Piché); Public Law (of which he was the general editor with Philip Bryden and Malcolm Lavoie), and Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada (with Lorne M. Sossin). He has practiced civil litigation in Toronto and remains an active member of the legal profession, as a member of the bars of Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta. He serves on the Alberta Judicial Council, the Federal Courts Rules Committee, and the (advisory) boards of Advocates for the Rule of Law, the Centre for Constitutional Studies, and the Edmonton Bar Association.