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Peter Hogg
Peter Wardell Hogg, C.C., Q.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C. (born 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law.
Hogg earned his LL.B. from the University of New Zealand in 1962, his LL.M. from Harvard University in 1963, and his Ph.D. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. In 1970, he was appointed Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and was appointed Dean in 1998. In 2003 he accepted a position as scholar in residence at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Honours
- 1980 - appointed a Queen's Counsel
- 1988 - named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
- 1991 - made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- 2003 - promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.
- 2003 - received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the law and legal scholarship in Canada.
- 2003 - received from the Law Society of Upper Canada an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Selected works
- Constitutional Law of Canada
- Liability of the Crown
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