Richard Francis Devlin FRSC (born November 25, 1960) is a Canadian law professor at Dalhousie University. In the late 1990s Devlin, alongside fellow professor Wayne MacKay, was accused by fellow Professor Carol Aylward of being one of the parties that denied her a tenured appointment out of his racial prejudice. Aylward sued both of the professors, as well as others, for denying her the appointment on racial grounds.[1] He was thus named in the lawsuit Cowan et al. v. Aylward et al as a party to oppressing Aylward's academic trajectory, which reached the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.[2] Devlin and Carol Aylward, the woman who accused him of racist treatment, were former coauthors on academic publications.[3] In 2019, Dalhousie made a formal apology for the institution's historical involvement (including its namesake) with racist values.[4]
Richard Devlin | |
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| Born | Richard Francis Devlin November 25, 1960 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Law, State and Violence: Preliminary Inquiries (1984) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Legal ethics, contract law, critical legal studies |
| Institutions | Dalhousie University |
In 2020, Devlin was appointed the Acting Dean of the Schulich School of Law to replace Camille Cameron while she was on medical leave for a year.[5] Prior to this, Devlin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.[6]
References edit
- ^ KIRK MAKIN (2 April 2001). "How teacher of equality ended up in racial figh". Globe & Mail.
- ^ "Cowan v. Aylward (2001), 193 N.S.R.(2d) 111 (SC)". Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. March 2001.
- ^ Barrington Walker (2012). The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays. University of Toronto Press. p. 450. ISBN 9781442646896.
- ^ "Dalhousie University apologizes for racist actions, views of school's founder". THE CANADIAN PRESS. 6 September 2019.
- ^ "Richard Devlin named acting dean at Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law". Canadian Lawyer Magazine. 7 August 2020.
- ^ "SelectedWorks - Richard Devlin, FRSC". works.bepress.com. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
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