Matthew Lewans, BComm, LLB (University of Saskatchewan), BCL (Oxon), LLM (University of Auckland), SJD (University of Toronto)

Professor, Faculty of Law - Admin
Associate Dean, Faculty of Law - Admin

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Law - Admin
Email
lewans@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-9211
Address
451 Law Centre
8820 - 111 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Associate Dean, Faculty of Law - Admin
Email
lewans@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Matthew Lewans is a Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Called to the Saskatchewan Bar, he practiced law for several years before pursuing graduate degrees at the University of Oxford, the University of Auckland, and the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests concern the interface between administrative law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including the University of Toronto Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Queen’s Law Journal, McGill Law Journal, Constitutional Forum, and the Alberta Law Review, and he has presented his research to local, national, and international audiences. Professor Lewans’ book, Administrative Law and Judicial Deference (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2016), explores the normative underpinnings of the common law doctrine of judicial deference from historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives.