Dale Gibson

Dale Gibson was Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Manitoba, where he taught from 1959 to 1991; in 1991, he was appointed the Belzberg Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, where he taught until 2001, after which he practiced law full time and pursued his avocation of writing prolifically about Prairie legal history. Earlier in his career, he was an advisor to the Federal and Manitoba governments during the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and wrote several of the earliest books on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also chaired the Manitoba Human Rights Commission.