Endowed chairs

Current chair: Kerri Froc (January 1 - December 31, 2025)

Kerri Froc is an Associate Professor at University of New Brunswick Law, as well as a Trudeau and Vanier Scholar. She has taught courses at Carleton University, Queen’s University and University of Ottawa on feminist legal theory and various aspects of public law, among others.

Kerri received her PhD from Queen’s University in 2016 and holds a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa, a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Regina.

Before completing her doctorate, she spent 18 years as a lawyer, as a civil litigator in Regina, a staff lawyer for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), and as a staff lawyer in the areas of law reform and equality at the Canadian Bar Association. She is a member of the Saskatchewan and New Brunswick bars.

About the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair

The Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair was established in 1989 under an agreement between the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan and the University of Saskatchewan. The chair was renamed the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan H. Robert Arscott Chair in 2014 in honour of H. Robert (Bob) Arscott, F.C.A., who served as secretary of the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan from 1973 until his retirement in 2013.

Income from the endowment for the chair is used to remunerate its holder, the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Professor, and to support teaching and research at the graduate and undergraduate level at the college.

The wide terms of reference for this chair accommodate appointments in any area of law or in law and policy. Incumbents are accomplished legal scholars or other outstanding persons with a background in law and a demonstrated interest in scholarly investigation and practice relating to issues in law and policy. Although the holder of the chair has teaching duties, she or he will also engage in research and other scholarly activities, such as conferences and special seminars related to the chair. 

Past chairs

Professor Glen Gardner: September 2023 - August 2024
Professor Gemma Smyth: January 2023 - June 2023
Dr. Annie Rochette: January 2022 - December 2022
Dr. Kent McNeil:  July 2019 - December 2019
Dr. Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter, Esq. August 2015 - August 2016
Professor Christine Zuni Cruz: July 2014 - August 2015
Professor John Wade: July 2013 - June 2014
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Dr. Sydney L. Harring: August 2012 - December 2012
Dr. Richard Bauman (January 2009 - June 2009)
Dr. John Whyte (January 2008 - December 2008) 
Honourable Mr. Justice Grant Hammond (September 2006 - December 2006)
Professor Judy Fudge (January 2004 - July 2004)
Professor Denise Reaume (January 2003 - June 2003) 
Professor Julien Payne, QC (July 1999 - January 2001)
Dr. Alan C. Cairns (January 1997 - December 1998)
Professor Michael Taggart (January - December 1996)
Dr. Sydney L. Harring (July 1994 - June 1995)
Dr. Richard Gosse, QC (January 1993 - June 1994)
Dr. Allan Blakeney, QC, PC, OC (July 1990 - June 1992)

Current chair: Dino Kritsiotis (January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025)

Dino Kritsiotis is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, where he has taught since October 1994. He serves as Co-Director of the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre (NILSC), where he is the founding head of the International Humanitarian Law Unit (established in 2012).

Professor Kritsiotis is a recognized authority in the field of public international law, where he specializes in the legal regulation of force and armed conflict (international humanitarian law), as well as the history and theory of public international law. He is co-editor (with Michael J. Bowman) of Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and his lectures on "International Law and the Problematization of Consent" from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg in November 2018, will appear as Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War (Vol. IV: Intervention by Consent) (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Recent publications include "Fourteen Ways of Looking Back at the Treaty of Versailles," London Review of International Law (2020), Vol. 8, pp. 43-88, and "The Elusive Peace of Panmunjom," in Matthew R. Craven, Sundhya Pahuja and Gerry J. Simpson (eds.), International Law and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 49-77.

Among his current projects, Professor Kritsiotis is co-editor (together with Eyal Benvenisti of the University of Cambridge) of the Cambridge History of International Law (Vol. XII: International Law After the Cold War). He is also working on a detailed reading and re-reading (in light of the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice) of the Caroline correspondence (1838-1842) between Great Britain and the United States of America. This formed the basis of "A Return to the Caroline Correspondence," which was delivered as the inaugural Sir Elihu Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture at the University of Cambridge in October 2017.

Professor Kritsiotis sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law (Oxford University Press); the Human Rights Law Review (Oxford University Press); the African Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Juta Publishing) and the Journal of the Use of Force and International Law (Hart Publishing). He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law (Oxford University Press) and was a founding convenor (with Anne Orford of Melbourne Law School and J.H.H. Weiler of NYU) of the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law (2012-2022).

About the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights

In January 1979 the late Ariel F. Sallows, QC, of North Battleford, Saskatchewan signed a trust agreement ensuring the future establishment of a chair funded from his estate. The Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights is the first endowed chair at the College of Law, and the first endowed chair of human rights in any college of law in Canada. The chair, called the Sallows Professor of Human Rights, supports courses and research in human rights at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Past chairs

Catherine Bell (September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023)
Rachel Loewen Walker (July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022)
Paul Finkelman (January 2016 - December 2016)
Kim Pate (July 2014 - December 2015)
Dr. Siobhan Wills (July 2013 - December 2013) 
Ms. Mary Eberts (January 2011 - December 2012)
Dr. John Whyte (July 2010 - December 2010)
Dr. Roy Adams (July 2009 - June 2010)
Dr. Marilou McPhedran (January 2007 - December 2007)
Dr. Penny Andrews (January 2005 - December 2005)
Francisco Forrest Martin (July 2000 - June 2002)
Professor John Foster (July 1997 - June 1999)
Professor Shelley Wright (January 1996 - December 1996)
Dr. Rebecca Wallace (January 1994 - June 1994)
Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama (July 1992 - June 1993)
Mr. Martin Ennals (July 1991 - October 1991)
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (July 1988 - June 1991)
Mr. Paul J. Mahoney (February 1988 - July 1988)
Dr. Virginia Leary (July 1986 - December 1987)

Current chair

The Estey chair is currently vacant.

About

The Estey Chair in Business Law was established in 2012 by John and Bill Estey in honour of their father, the late Willard “Bud” Estey, former Justice of Supreme Court of Canada. Their donation of $2 million is the largest-ever private donation to the college. Chairholders are expected to teach business law courses within the college, conduct high quality research in their field of expertise and share their knowledge and insight by engaging in outreach activities with the wider legal community.

The Estey Chair in Business Law is intended to attract outstanding scholars in the area of business law. Chairholders will be expected to teach business law courses within the college, conduct world-class research in their field, as well as share their expertise and engage in outreach activities with the wider legal community.

Past chairs

Professor Virginia Torrie: August 2023 - July 2024
Professor Anna Lund: January 2023 - June 2023
Michael W. Milani, KC: July 2022 - December 2022
Professor Cally Jordan: August 2015 - June 2017
Professor Roderick Wood: July 2014 - June 2015