Diana Ginn

Professor Diana Ginn began teaching at the law school in the fall of 1992 and was a member of the Faculty of Law for more than 30 years. She received the LSS & DLAA Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997, was presented with the class ring from the 2005 graduating class and won the Hanna and Harold Barnett Award in Law for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Law four times (2005, 2012, 2014 and 2020). Ginn’s research and writing interests cover a variety of topics including religion and the law, administrative law, aboriginal title and property law, health care issues and gender issues. She has developed and taught courses in law at Hue University in Vietnam and the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax. She has acted as a coach and examiner in the Negotiations and Conflict Management Programme at Dalhousie and facilitated a variety of seminars on conflict resolution. In 2016-2017, while on sabbatical, she held the Simon Visiting Fellowship at the University of Manchester, England. Post-retirement, she will continue working on several writing projects but her focus will be family, including her five grandchildren.