A New Law Dean North Of The Border: Philip Bryden Joins Alberta

For those of you with roots in Canadian law schools, here's some news of interest.  Philip Bryden, currently the law dean at the University of New Brunswick, will become the new dean at the University of Alberta as of July 1.  He will replace Alberta's current dean, David Percy, who has served since 2002. 

Phil Bryden received his BA from Dalhousie, won a Rhodes Scholarship and received his law degrees at Oxford, and took his LLM from Harvard.  He became dean at UNB in 2004.  He was a member of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1985 to 2004 and served as the Faculty's Associate Dean from 1993-1996. Before joining the Law Faculty at UBC, Dean Bryden practiced law in New York City with Donovan Leisure Newton and Irvine from 1979-81.