Bradford W. Morse
Full Professor (on Leave)
57 Louis Pasteur St.
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
B.A. (Rutgers), LL.B. (B.C.), LL.M. (Osg.H.), of the Bar of Ontario, Full Professor
Professor Morse has been a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa since 1976 and a full professor since 1986. Professor Morse has served as Vice-Dean from 1983 to 1985, Director of Graduate Studies in Law from 1990 to 1992, Chair of Admissions (1998-2002) and Co-Director of Graduate Studies (January 2005 - July 2007). Professor Morse has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of New South Wales, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Queensland, the Canadian Visiting Fellow of 1987 to Australia hosted by Macquarie University, as well as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the USA while serving as a visiting scholar at the Native American Legal Resource Center of the Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1997. He has also presented numerous papers at conferences and guest lectures throughout Canada, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea.
Professor Morse's experience as a legal consultant or counsel includes among others: the Australian and Canadian Law Reform Commissions; the Canadian Sentencing Commission; Aboriginal Development Commission (Australia); the Waitangi Tribunal of New Zealand; the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission; the governments of Canada, Ontario, British Columbia and New Zealand; the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, various Aboriginal organizations including: the Native Council of Canada/Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Assembly of First Nations, Metis National Council, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Federation of Newfoundland Indians, Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians, Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association, Council for Yukon Indians, United Native Nations of B.C., Native Council of Prince Edward Island, Ojibway Child and Family Services, New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council, among others; and a number of First Nations over the years including the Walpole Island First Nation from 1977 to 1993.
Professor Morse has been directly involved in the establishment of Aboriginal legal services programs and child welfare agencies as well as in land claims, environmental disputes, constitutional, treaty and self-government negotiations, economic development projects, legislative drafting and other Aboriginal governance matters. He has also served as counsel in litigation on aboriginal and treaty rights as well as an expert witness before numerous parliamentary and legislative committees and administrative tribunals. He was the Director of Research and Planning for the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba (1988-1991).
Professor Morse served as Executive Assistant to the Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs from late 1993 until early 1997. During this period, Professor Morse supervised a staff of over 20 departmental employees and assistants to the Minister and was intimately involved in all aspects of the Minister's and the Department's responsibilities concerning First Nations as well as in the North. He has also served as Chief Federal Negotiator on several land claims.
He has also published widely.
For further information, please view my full Resume July 2008