About the Authors

• Author: Jamie Cassels/Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey
• Profession: Professor of Law, Vice President Academic, and Provost, University of Victoria/Professor of Law, University of Victoria
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jamie Cassels, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Q.C., is Vice President Academic and

Provost of the University of Victoria. He is also Professor of Law, and

former Dean, at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. Prof. Cassels’

areas of expertise are Contracts, Torts, Remedies, and Legal Theory, and

he has written several books and numerous articles on these subjects,

including The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 1993), and, with Craig Jones, The Law of

Large Scale Claims (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005). Professor Cassels is the

recipient of several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the

1999 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award for Academic Ex-

cellence and the national 3M award for Teaching Excellence.

Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, B.A. (Hons.), LL.M., LL.M., D.Jur., is an Associ-

ate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, where she

has been teaching since 1998. Professor Adjin-Tettey’s teaching and

research interests are in the areas of torts, remedies, insurance, and

critical race and feminist theories, and she has written several arti-

cles and book chapters in these areas. Her recent work has focused on

the marginalizing effects of traditional torts and remedial principles,

examining issues such as the implications of parental responsibility

legislation for under-privileged parents, inequities in the assessment

of damages for impaired working capacity, and judicial responses to

historical abuse claims by Aboriginal plaintiffs.