Faculty directory

Gerry Ferguson

B.A. (St. Patrick's) 1968, LL.B. (Ottawa) 1971, LL.M. (New York) 1972, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1975.

Professor Ferguson was a Research Officer at the Law Reform Commission of Canada from 1972 to 1973, and was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, from 1973 to 1976. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law at UVic in 1976 as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1981. He was appointed in 2002 to one of the first two University of Victoria Distinguished Professorships. He served two terms as Associate Dean from 1980 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1988.

Professor Ferguson was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Malaya and the University of Hong Kong in 1989, the University of Monash in 1990, the University of Airlangga, Indonesia in 1993, and the University of Auckland in 1997. His teaching and scholarly interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, and mental health law. He is the co-author, with Justices Dambrot and Bennett, of the two-volume book, Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions and a co-author of the Annual Review of Criminal Law.

Professor Ferguson is a former member of the National Advisory Council of the Law Commission of Canada, and the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, and an active participant in the Canadian Bar Association, Law Society, and Continuing Legal Education Society activities.

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Gerry Ferguson
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada

Email: Gerry Ferguson
Fax:  250-721-8146
Tel: 250-721-8174

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