Richard Devlin (legal scholar)

Richard Devlin FRSC
Born	Richard Francis Devlin (1960-11-25) November 25, 1960 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality	Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	Queen's University Belfast Queen's University
Thesis	Law, State and Violence: Preliminary Inquiries (1984)
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Sub-discipline	Legal ethics, contract law, critical legal studies
Institutions	Dalhousie University

Richard Francis Devlin FRSC (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 2019, Dalhousie made a formal apology for the institution's historical involvement (including its namesake) with racist values.

Despite this in 2020 Devlin was appointed the Acting Dean of the Schulich School of Law, though only for a single year. Prior to this, Devlin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.

External links

• Official website