Gary Botting - Curriculum Vitae

Education

Gary Botting receives his Ph.D. in Law from U.B.C. Chancellor William McEachern, former Chief Justice of British Columbia, May 2004.

2004: Doctor of Philosophy (Law), University of British Columbia. Dissertation: “Executive and Judicial Discretion in Extradition between Canada and the United States.” Graduate focus: comparative law (U.S. and Canada), international criminal law, jurisprudence, interdisciplinary legal studies, and law and society. Worked with Dr. W. Wesley Pue, Dr. Albert McClean, and Michael Jackson QC.

1999: Master of Laws, University of British Columbia. Thesis: “Competing Imperatives: Extradition from Canada to the U.S.A.” Graduate focus: Canadian aboriginal law, international criminal and penal law, postmodernism. Primarily worked with Peter Burns QC, Michael Jackson QC, and Professor Joel Bakan.

1990: Bachelor of Laws, University of Calgary. Focus on Canadian constitutional law, criminal law, international law, intellectual property, and Canadian legal history. Major project published by University of Calgary Press as Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah’s Witnesses (1993).

1982: Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting, University of Alberta. Thesis project: Whatever Happened to Saint Joanne? (original play). Focus: playwriting, screenwriting, dramaturgy. Thesis project supervisor: Professor Bill Meilen.

1975: Doctor of Philosophy (English Literature), University of Alberta. Dissertation: “Three Grades of Thought in the Novels of William Golding.” Graduate focus: Victorian literature, modern American literature, the modern English novel, modern drama. Primarily worked with Dr. Sheila Watson, Dr. Wilfred Watson, and Dr. Norman Page.

1970: Master of Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland (English). Thesis: “Dualism in the Novels of William Golding.” Graduate focus: modern British and American literature, bibliography, textual criticism. Primarily working with Dr. George Storey, Professor Keith Ecclestone, Dr. D.G. Pitt, Dr. Gerald Francis.

1968: Bachelor of Arts, Trent University (English and philosophy major). Activities: editor of student newspaper; editor of Tridentine Literary Magazine. Primarily working with Dr. T.H.B. Symons, Dr. Michael Sidnell, Dr. Richard Sadleir.

1966: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Philosophy and political science.

Employment:

Current

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow, and Visiting Scholar, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington.

Duties: Researching and writing books on law, policy and justice, including indigenous governance, extradition and wrongful conviction.

2002 - Current
Writer, and Barrister and Solicitor
Gary Botting, Barrister
Deep Bay, B.C., Canada

Duties: Writing texts on legal history and law for Butterworths/Nexis-Lexis, Fitzhenry & Whiteside and Transnational Publishers

1991 - 1999
Barrister and Solicitor
Gary Botting & Associates
Victoria, B.C., Canada

Duties: Trial and appellate lawyer with primary focus on criminal appeals and trials, extradition, and refugee claims. *See Legal Scholar/Lawyer

1990 - 1991
Lecturer
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada

Duties: Teaching university English courses to students at the William Head Campus on Vancouver Island.

1990 - 1991
Articling Lawyer
Douglas Christie, Barrister
Victoria, B.C., Canada

Duties: Legal research and preparation of factums for British Columbia Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.

1986 - 1991
Creative Writing Instructor
Lakeland College
Cold lake, Alberta, Canada

Duties: Instructing creative writing (both fiction and non-fiction), developing new techniques in distance education.

1988 - 1990
Research Assistant
Canadian Institute of Natural
Resources Law, Univ. of Calgary

Duties: Preparing a computer database for a major study on mining law in Canada, including researching, synopsizing cases.

1988 - 1990
Vice-president of Liaison
Calgary Region Arts Foundation
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Duties: Assigning liaison officers to work with individual arts groups and supervising distribution of $4 million of gov’t funding.

1972 - 1986
Instructor of English
Red Deer College
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Duties: Teaching university English and creative writing. Terms as coordinator of media relations and English.

1970 - 1972
Producer/Director/Playwright
People & Puppets Incorporated
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Duties: Budgeting, financial planning, programming, playwriting, and directing of plays.

1969 - 1970
High School English Teacher
Crestwood Secondary School
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Duties: Teaching English, grades 10-12. Faculty advisor for student newspaper, creative writing club, drama club.

1964 - 1968
Journalist
Peterborough Examiner
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Duties: Reporting and feature writing for South China Morning Post, China Mail, and Sunday Post-Herald including column.

1961 - 1963
Journalist
South China Morning Post
Hong Kong

Duties: Reporting various news beats, editorial writing, movie reviewer, under the tutelage of Robertson Davies, publisher.

Memberships

Current:

• The Law Society of British Columbia
• The Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Association of Law Teachers
• Canadian Law and Society Association
• International Justice and Extradition Defence Initiative Society (vice-president)
• The Writers Union

Past positions:

• President, Victoria-Haliburton Press Association, Lindsay, Ontario
• Editor, Trent Trends (Trent University's student newspaper), Peterborough, Ont.
• Editor, Tridentine (Trent University's literary magazine), Peterborough, Ontario
• Secretary, Open Theatre, St. John's, Newfoundland
• Producer, Edmonton Summer Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
• Producer, People & Puppets Incorporated, Edmonton, Alberta
• Member, University of Alberta Graduate Faculty Council, Edmonton, Alberta
• Editor, University of Alberta Graduate Students Association Newsletter
• Member, editorial board of Focus, University of Alberta's staff magazine
• Media Relations Coordinator, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
• President, Faculty Association of Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
• Editor, Red Deer College Press, Red Deer, Alberta
• Chairman, Department of English, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
• President, Tren-Tan Developments Ltd., Red Deer, Alberta
• Proprietor, Arabesque Arabians, Alix, Alberta
• Member, editorial board of Journal of Canadian Community Colleges, Toronto
• Founding president, Alberta Publishers Association, Edmonton, Alberta
• Founding board member, Literary Presses Group, Toronto, Ontario
• Board member, Association of Canadian Publishers, Toronto, Ontario
• Vice-president and producer, Central Alberta Theatre, Red Deer, Alberta
• Executive vice-president, Association of Alberta College Faculties
• Member, Institute of Public Relations (MIPR), London, England
• Vice-president of liaison, Calgary Region Arts Foundation
• President, Kaleidoscope Theatre, Victoria, B.C.
• Graduate Supervisor, Leadership Program, Royal Roads University, Victoria.
• President, St. John's College Dining Society, U.B.C.
• Legal counsel and member of the board of several non-profit societies.
• Publisher and President, Hecate's Loom Publishing Ltd., Victoria, B.C.
  
• Member at Large, University of British Columbia Faculty of Graduate Studies Council
• Faculty of Graduate Studies representative, University of British Columbia Graduate Students Council