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Professor Bradford W. Morse
BA Rutgers LLB B.C. LLM Osg.H.
BRADFORD W. MORSE is currently the Dean of Law and Professor of Law at the University of Waikato Te Piringa - Faculty of Law in Hamilton, New Zealand. He remains a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, at the University of Ottawa where he served in the past as Vice-Dean and Director of Graduate Studies, among a variety of other administrative duties since joining the faculty in 1976. He has taught a wide variety of courses concerning Canadian and comparative Indigenous law issues, as well as in labour, trusts, property and civil liberties. His career includes appointments as Executive Director of the Native Legal Task Force of British Columbia (1974-75); Research Director of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba (1988-91); and Chief of Staff to the Hon. Ronald A. Irwin, Canadian Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1993-1996).
He has served as legal advisor to many First Nations as well as national and regional Aboriginal organizations since 1974 in a broad range of constitutional, land claim, governance, economic and treaty issues. He has been a consultant to various royal commissions, government departments and Indigenous peoples' organisations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and as a Chief Federal Negotiator on several land claims and treaty issues in Canada. Professor Morse has been a visiting scholar to a number of law schools over his career including the Universities of New South Wales, Melbourne, Monash, Hong Kong, and Victoria University of Wellington as well as Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Native American Legal Research Center at Oklahoma City University. He has authored over 100 books, articles, book chapters and commission reports.
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