Nicholas S. Rafferty
B.A., LL.B., M.A., (Cantab.), LL.M. (Ill.)
Professor.
Member of the Alberta Bar.
University of Calgary
Faculty of Law
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Office: 4310 Murray Fraser Hall
Telephone: (403)220-7325
Fax: (403) 282-8325
email: rafferty@ucalgary.ca
Professor Rafferty is the winner of numerous teaching awards, including Students' Union Teaching Excellence Awards in 2006/2007, 1999/2000, 1998/1999. 1997/1998, 1993/1994 and 1988/1989 These awards recognizes the outstanding achievement and contributions to students in the classroom by exceptional teachers.
In 2006, Professor Rafferty was the first winner of the Faculty of Law's Howard Tidswell Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. Non-exclusive criteria for the Award are teaching excellence in a defined period, prolonged high level teaching performance, teaching methodology, and contribution to curriculum.
Professor Nicholas Rafferty delivered the University's third annual Lecture of a Lifetime on April 22, 2010. This event, presented by the University of Calgary Senate, and sponsored by the University of Calgary Alumni, the Calgary Jewish Community Council and the Ismailia Community, acknowledges and showcases one faculty member with a long record of exceptional teaching at the U of C.
Professor Rafferty is on a research and scholarship leave June 30, 2011 to December 31, 2011.