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Richard Devlin

b. 1960

Canadian jurist

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Born 1960. Richard Devlin is a Canadian jurist and university teacher.

Richard Francis Devlin (born November 25, 1960) is a Canadian law professor at Dalhousie University. In the late 1990s Devlin, alongside fellow professor Wayne MacKay, was accused by fellow Professor Carol Aylward of being one of the parties that denied her a tenured appointment out of his racial prejudice. Aylward sued both of the professors, as well as others, for denying her the appointment on racial grounds. He was thus named in the lawsuit Cowan et al. v. Aylward et al as a party to oppressing Aylward's academic trajectory, which reached the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. Devlin and Carol Aylward, the woman who accused him of racist treatment, were former coauthors on academic publications.

In 2020, Devlin was appointed the Acting Dean of the Schulich School of Law to replace Camille Cameron while she was on medical leave for a year. Prior to this, Devlin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.

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Richard Francis Devlin, Richard F. Devlin

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Who is Richard Devlin?

Canadian jurist

When was Richard Devlin born?

Richard Devlin was born on 25 November 1960 in Belfast.

What is Richard Devlin's occupation?

Richard Devlin is a jurist and university teacher.

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Richard Devlin is Canadian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Richard Devlin

· Wikidata: Q99193597

· DBpedia: Richard Devlin (legal scholar)

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