David Percy, KC, MA (Oxford), LLM (Virginia)

About

Professor David Percy, QC, was Interim Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2019 to 2020 and Dean of Law from 2002 to 2009. His teaching and research interests are in energy law, water law and contracts. He is co-editor of Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, now in its ninth edition and used at law schools across Canada. He wrote The Framework of Water Rights Legislation in Canada, as well as books on wetlands and groundwater.

Percy is a former president of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. He has received major teaching awards at the national, university and Faculty levels. In 2013, he was awarded the University Cup, the highest honour a University of Alberta academic can receive for research, teaching and service to the university and to the community.

Since 2000, he has worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on water law and agriculture in six African countries.

Among his special Interests: he was an international rugby referee and continues to referee rugby in Alberta. He pursues hiking and cross-country skiing, enjoys theatre and music and is an avid movie-goer.

Research

• Borden Ladner Gervais Chair of Energy Law and Policy
• Walter Allocation Law
• Tradable Water Rights
• Protection of Instream Flows in Water Allocation Statutes
• Aquaculture Law
• Energ Law and Policy
• Climate Change

LAW 410A - Contracts

A discussion of the prerequisites to the creation of contractual obligation: offer and acceptance, intention and certainty, consideration, the requirements of writing and capacity. The effect of misrepresentations and terms of the contract, together with the problems of exclusion clauses and of standard form contracts. Questions of discharge from contractual obligation on the grounds of mistake, undue influence, duress, unconscionable transactions and frustration. Remedies for breach of contract.

LAW 410B - Contracts

A discussion of the prerequisites to the creation of contractual obligation: offer and acceptance, intention and certainty, consideration, the requirements of writing and capacity. The effect of misrepresentations and terms of the contract, together with the problems of exclusion clauses and of standard form contracts. Questions of discharge from contractual obligation on the grounds of mistake, undue influence, duress, unconscionable transactions and frustration. Remedies for breach of contract.

LAW 543 - Energy Law

This course surveys the legal methods by which the major sources of energy in the prairie provinces are produced, transported, and regulated; the ownership of natural resources; the interaction between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples, including the developing role of Indigenous Peoples in resource development; the development of renewable energy in the form of solar and wind power; and emerging sources of energy such as geothermal resources and hydrogen.

LAW 553 - Water Law

The law and policy relating to the allocation of the right to consume water, with a focus on Western Canada, and the maintenance of water quality. The issue of water scarcity in an era of climate change and its ramifications in Canada and the world. Indigenous water rights and the protections of aquatic resources. Jurisdiction over water and the role of the federal government in water management. Water in International Law in North America and the world, with a focus on the law applicable to International Rivers.

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