Phillip Saunders, KC

Professor Phillip Saunders K.C. (BA ’76, MA ’82, LLB ’84) retired after teaching for more than 30 years in the Faculty of Law. He joined the law school in 1992, teaching Public International Law, Law of the Sea, Environmental Law, Torts, Judicial Remedies and Oral Advocacy and was cross-appointed for several years to the School for Resource and Environmental Studies. Saunders was an adjunct professor at China’s National Institute for South China Seas Studies. He participated in joint research, training and conflict-resolution projects in Southern and Southeast Asia, Southern and East Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and the European Union, focusing on maritime boundary issues and international law of the sea. He was also Dalhousie’s dean of law from 2005-2010, helping secure the transformational Schulich Grant, thus becoming the first dean of the renamed Schulich School of Law. In retirement, he will continue writing and training projects, including co-editing the 10 th ed. of Kindred’s International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada.