About the authors

• Author: Jamie Cassels
• Pages: 627-627

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jamie Cassels, BA, LLB, LLM, QC, is President and Vice-Chancellor

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

Dean, at the Faculty of Law, and past Vice President Academic and

Provost at the University of Victoria. Professor Cassels’s areas of exper-

tise 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 (1993) and, with Craig

Jones, The Law of Large Scale Claims (2005). Professor Cassels is the

recipient of several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the

Canadian Association of Law Teachers Award for Academic Excellence

and the national 3M award for Teaching Excellence.

Elizab eth Adjin-Tettey, LLB (Hons), LLM, LLM, DJur, is a Professor and

Associate Dean, Administration and Research at the Faculty of Law,

University of Victoria. Professor Adjin-Tettey’s teaching and research

interests are in the areas of torts, remedies, in surance, and critical race

and feminist theories, and she has written several articles and book

chapters in these areas. Her recent work has focused on the marginal-

izing effects of traditional torts and remedial principles, and how best

to protect the interests of consumers of insurance products while en-

suring the overall viability of the private insurance system.