Jamie Baxter
Associate Professor of Law; Associate Dean, Research
Connect with me
Email: jamie.baxter@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-7113
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Property and land law
- Food and agricultural law
- Local government law
- Law, economics and political economy
- Access to justice
Education
- B.ArtsSc, MA (McMaster)
- JD (Toronto)
- LLM, JSD (Yale)
Bar admissions
- Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario), 2011
Bio
Before studying law, Jamie completed his graduate studies in economics, focusing on rural and community development, and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky. After law school, he articled with a solo practice in Toronto specializing in cases of state and institutional misconduct, civil rights and Indigenous rights, and taught part-time in the Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph. Jamie then clerked at the Federal Court of Canada before returning to graduate studies in law.
Teaching
- Property in its Historical Context (LAWS 1005)
- Planning Law (LAWS 2015)
- Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility (LAWS 2099)
Research Interests
I am interested mainly in food systems, agriculture, land, rural-urban connections, and local governance. Most of my work looks at what are sometimes called the "working rules" that shape human interaction and cooperation--those rules and norms that operate where formal laws and actual practices meet.
