Blaine Baker

Blaine Baker is a graduate of the Western Ontario and Columbia law schools, and was a Bigelow Fellow in Law at the University of Chicago. He has taught in McGill’s Faculty of Law for the last thirty years. During that time he has also been a visitor at the Toronto and Osgoode Hall law schools. Professor Baker is primarily a Canadian legal historian, although he has taught Contracts and Administrative Process in almost every year of his appointment. He served two terms as Associate Dean at McGill, and has thrice been the recipient of University teaching excellence awards. His most recent publications, both with Jim Phillips and published by the University of Toronto Press, are Canadian Legal Thought: Collected Historical Essays (2006) and Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In Honour of R. C. B. Risk (1999).