Chairs

Chair of Natural Resources Law

The Chair of Natural Resources Law was established through the generous donations from the Calgary legal community and a number of resources companies. The role of the holder of the Chair is to teach and conduct research in the areas of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law within the Law Faculty, and to interact closely with members of the legal profession engaged in practice in the field. Over the years an eminent scholar with an international reputation was appointed to the Chair.

The Merv Leitch, Q.C. Memorial Visiting Chair

This chair has been established in honour of C. Mervin Leitch, BA, LL.B. Q.C., who passed away in mid-1990. The Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Egmont, he served as Attorney-General and Provincial Secretary, Provincial Treasurer, and Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. Prior to his political career he was active in legal professional associations, serving as President of the Calgary Bar Association and as a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta. He was a partner in the Macleod Dixon law firm in Calgary. In addition to being a director of several Canadian corporations, he was also on the Board of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. 

Calgary Bar Association Milvain Chair in Advocacy 

In 1979 in honour of Chief Justice Milvain of the Trial Division, Supreme Court of Alberta who retired at the beginning of that year, the Calgary Bar Association undertook to fund a Visiting Chair in Advocacy at the Law Faculty. The purpose of this Chair is to enable the Law Faculty to invite a leading counsel to the Faculty each year to participate in the Faculty’s Trial Advocacy course and to present a special lecture to students and to members of both the practising and academic legal communities. The Chair is named the Calgary Bar Association Milvain Visiting Chair in Advocacy as a tribute to the wisdom, humanity and sound guidance which the Chief Justice exercised as a member of the Bench.