Dwight Barnaby
Part-time Professor
Dr. Barnaby has explored a wide variety of subjects during his long academic odyssey, studying history and literature at Harvard University; history and philosophy at Yale University; the history and philosophy of medicine at the London Society of Apothecaries; classical studies at the University of Waterloo; medicine at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Düsseldorf; philosophy at Cambridge University; and law at the University of Toronto and at Oxford University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge and a D.Phil. in law from Oxford.
His chief interests in law include the history and philosophy of law, tort law theory, constitutional law, and theories of rights and their limitations. He is currently preparing a book on the historical influences on Canada’s present understanding and treatment of constitutional rights, focusing on the use of section 1 of the Charter.
He co-taught the seminar, ‘Policy and Law Reform,’ at the University of Ottawa Law School during the Winter Term, 2011. In the Fall of 2011 he will be teaching ‘Foundations of the Common Law.’