Education
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Victoria in 1994.
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Russell Brown
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Career
He is currently a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Brown was raised in Burns Lake, British Columbia. He also has a Master of Laws degree in 2003 and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree both from the University of Toronto in 2006.
He was admitted to the Bar of British Columbia in 1995 and to the Bar of Alberta in 2008.
Brown was admitted to the Bar of British Columbia in 1995 and to the Bar of Alberta in 2008. He was an associate at Davis & Company (now DLA Piper Limited Liability Partnership) in Vancouver from 1995 to 1996 and at Carfra & Lawton (now Carfra Lawton Limited Liability Partnership) in Victoria from 1996 to 2004.
His main areas of practice were commercial law, medical negligence, personal injury, insurance law and trusts and estates. Brown is the author of a treatise on claims under negligence law for economic loss, as well as the author or co-author of over 30 published law review articles, book chapters and review essays on tort law, property law and civil justice.
He called the Canada Health Acting “an inappropriate intrusion into sacrosanct provincial swimming pools,” referred to third party election spending limits as "odious" and "restriction on private expenditure during elections" as "objectionable", described human rights commissions as "puritanical functionaries", and described himself as a "conservative libertarian".
On February 8, 2013, he was appointed to the Court of Queen"s Bench of Alberta. He was then appointed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta on March 7, 2014. As a Court of Appeal judge sitting in Edmonton, Justice Brown also served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Nunavut.
He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on August 31, 2015.
Membership
From 2004 to 2013, Brown was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta, both as a professor (tenured from 2009) and for the last two years as an associate dean In addition, while a member of the University of Alberta"s Faculty of Law, Brown published posts on the faculty"s blog expressing his views on a number of topics.
