Former Western Law professors Grant Huscroft and Bradley Miller have been appointed to serve on the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
“These prestigious appointments are a great reflection on the strength and depth of the public law scholarship and academic program at the Faculty,” says Dean Iain Scott.
“They’ve both made major contributions to important constitutional law issues and have been tremendous colleagues. I know they will contribute greatly in their new public service roles,” Scott adds.
Grant Huscroft was appointed to the Court of Appeal in December. Bradley Miller was appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in December and promoted to the Court of Appeal in June.
They established the Public Law and Legal Philosophy Research Group at Western in 2008. The group attracted some of the world’s top legal scholars to Western to collaborate on projects related to constitutional interpretation, judicial reasoning, and philosophy of law.
“We’re very proud that two such highly esteemed legal scholars from Western have been appointed to the bench and we wish them well in this exciting new chapter of their careers,” says Western University President Amit Chakma.
Both have published widely in constitutional law and constitutional theory. Additionally, Huscroft is a noted administrative law scholar.
They are the editors (along with Grégoire Webber) of Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning, recently published by Cambridge University Press and The Challenge of Originalism: Theories of Constitutional Interpretation (CUP 2011).
“It was a pleasure to work in public law at Western, and a privilege to have worked with so many fine scholars and students over my academic career,” says Huscroft.
“Western has provided a fantastic platform for engagement in public law and I’m enormously proud of the work we have done over the past 10 years,” says Miller.
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