Faculty directory

Jamie Cassels, Q.C.

B.A. (Carleton) 1976, LL.B. (Western Ontario) 1980, LL.M. (Columbia) 1981, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1991.

Professor Cassels joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in 1981. His areas of expertise include remedies, legal theory, contracts, and torts and civil litigation. He is a member of the Bar of British Columbia and has practised law and consulted on issues of public significance. He has served as the Associate Dean and Dean of the law school, and from 2001 to 2010 he was the Vice-President Academic and Provost of the University of Victoria.

Professor Cassels has published widely in his fields. Among his better-known publications are: a book on the Bhopal gas disaster in India, entitled The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal (University of Toronto Press, 1993); the national casebook (co-authored) Remedies: Cases and Materials (Emond Montgomery, 2006); two treatises Remedies: The Law of Damages (Irwin Law, 2000) (2nd edition Irwin Law, 2008 with Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey); and Complex Litigation: The Law of Large-Scale Claims (Irwin Law, 2005 with Craig Jones). Professor Cassels has written numerous academic articles, including a series examining various forms of discrimination in civil litigation.

Professor Cassels has received numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. He has twice received UVic Law’s Terry J. Wuester Teaching Award and he is also the recipient of the University of Victoria Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2002, he was one of 10 university professors in Canada to be named a 3M Teaching Fellow. In 1999, Professor Cassels received the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award for Academic Excellence and he was named British Columbia Queen’s Counsel in 2003.

 

Jamie Cassels, Q.C.
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada

 

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Tel: 250-721-6396
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