David Percy, Q.C., University of Alberta, has written extensively on Alberta's laws in regard to water and water rights. In this presentation, he summarizes the progression of water law and water rights policy in Western Canada and provides some possible solutions for current and emerging challenges.
David R. Percy, Q.C. was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2002 until 2009. In January 2010, he was appointed as the first holder of the Borden Ladner Gervais Chair of Energy Law and Policy at the University of Alberta. His teaching and research interests lie in 2 fields: Contracts and Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is co-editor of Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, now in its eighth edition and 3 books on Water Law, including the Framework of Water Rights Legislation in Canada. David Percy is a former President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. He worked on the development of the Alberta Water Act (1999) and in 2009, he cochaired the Minister's Advisory Panel on Water Management and Allocation in Alberta. He has worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on Water Law and Aquaculture in five African countries. In 1995, David Percy won the W.P.M. Kennedy Award for outstanding merit in Canadian law teaching. In 1996 he won the Rutherford Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Alberta and in 2000, he received the Tevie H. Miller Award for Teaching at the Faculty of Law.
Dr. Percy's presentation was part of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists' Banff Conference, 2012.
