Management & Staff
Professional Staff
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J. Owen Saunders Telephone: (403) 220-3975 Office: MFH 3349 |
Mr. Saunders was appointed Executive Director of the Institute effective January 1, 1990. He has been a Research Associate with the Institute since 1980, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Calgary since 1984. He holds a B.A. (Hon. Econ.) from St. Francis Xavier University, an LL.B. from Dalhousie University, and an LL.M. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science). His main areas of interest include natural resources policy, international trade law, energy law, transboundary water law, and environmental and constitutional law.
His publications include work on such topics as The Uruguay Round of GATT and Economic Regionalism; NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation; The Mexico Factor in North American Free Trade; Legal Aspects of International Diversions; Energy, Natural Resources and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement; and Interjurisdictional Issues in Canadian Water Management.
His recent research has included work on trade law, electricity deregulation, domestic and transboundary water law and policy, and problems associated with resource development and federalism.
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Monique M. Passelac-Ross Telephone: (403) 220-3973 Office: MFH 3345 Publications |
Monique Passelac-Ross has been a Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Resources Law (CIRL) since 1989. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the Université de Toulouse, France, an LL.M. from the University of Montreal and a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning (M. Env. Des.) from the University of Calgary. Her research interests include forestry law, natural resources law and policy, Aboriginal law and environmental law, with a focus on the interface between Aboriginal rights and resource development. She was involved in a multi-year national research project on the boreal forest (Sustainable Forest Management Network or SFMN) funded under the Network of Centres of Excellence Program. Her research dealt with the impact of forestry development on Aboriginal and treaty rights, Aboriginal involvement in forest use and management, and multiple resource uses. She was also involved in a multi-year research project considering the impacts of energy development on human rights. Her most recent research focuses on Aboriginal rights to water. She is applying her analysis to the case of the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta. She has published several articles on the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate and its application in the Alberta context, notably in the context of oil and gas and oil sands development.
Support Staff
| Nancy Money Telephone:(403) 220-3976 Office: MFH 3347 |
Nancy Money, the Institute's Director of Administration, has a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta. She is responsible for financial management, office administration, coordination of publicity and promotion and management of the Institute's conference and seminar program. She administers the Institute's publicity programs. |
| Sue Parsons Telephone: (403) 220-3200 Office: MFH 3353 |
Ms. Parsons, Assistant to the Executive Director and the Information Resources Officer, promotes and organizes the Contract Law Course and assists with the conference and seminar programme. She also provides secretarial support and is responsible for the administration and distribution components of the Institute's publications program. She produces the Institute's newsletter and also maintains CIRL's website, library holdings and the Resources newsletter database. |