Colin J. Gillespie

Colin J. Gillespie
Born	(1941-05-11) May 11, 1941 Adelaide, South Australia
Nationality	Australian; Canadian
Education	B.Sc. 1961, Melbourne University Ph.D. 1967, Monash University LL.B. 1980, University of Manitoba
Occupation(s)	Physicist, lawyer, and writer.

Colin J. Gillespie (born 11 May 1941) is an Australian physicist and Canadian lawyer and writer. He is the author of some 30 scientific research publications in quantum physics, biophysics, neurophysiology and radiation biology. He has also written on social planning, class actions, aboriginal law, environmental management and indigenous constitutions. He is an avid traveler, having spent time in more than 50 countries in all six continents.

Life and career

Gillespie was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised in Evenley near Brackley in England and in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from Melbourne Grammar School in 1958. In the next decade Australian artist Leon Schwengler was a strong influence on Gillespie's personal philosophy as well as his interest in science and subsequent scientific career. In 1961 he graduated from Melbourne University with a B.Sc., majoring in nuclear physics and minoring in mathematics and theory of statistics. He then attended Monash University, graduating in 1967 with a Ph.D in quantum mechanics. He went on to do post-doctoral work in biophysics with the National Research Council of Canada (1967–1969), and research in neurophysiology and radiation biology with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (1970–1975). In 1971 with Gordon Gislason, Gillespie developed a program for sensitively measuring radiation-induced strand breaks in mammalian DNA. He became a consultant to aboriginal tribes on implications of hydro-electric development (1975–1977). He was a consultant in 1978 to the Alberta Cancer Hospitals Board and the Alberta Government Committee on Advanced Medical Technology. While working at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta he developed a program for actuarial analysis of cancer survival with Adalei Starreveld and co-wrote with Donald Chapman a text on radiation physics, chemistry and biology in mammalian cells. Most recently he co-authored an editorial on "The Power of Biophysics" in the Red Journal. Gillespie has been a visiting and invited lecturer at the Physics Department, Adelaide University, Australia; Biochemistry Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Physics Department, Calgary University, Calgary, Canada; Animal Health Division, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne, Australia; Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Canadian Biochemical & Biophysical Society inaugural lecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; Neurobiology Division, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States; L.H. Gray Laboratories, London, United Kingdom; Institute for Atomic Energy in Agriculture (ITAL), Wageningen, Netherlands.

In 1978 Gillespie went to law school at the University of Manitoba and graduated in 1980 with a LL.B. He was admitted to the Manitoba Bar Association in 1981 and the Saskatchewan Bar in 1987. He specialized in environmental, aboriginal (and especially indigenous) as well as constitutional law. He also pursued a special interest in Aboriginal child protection at Weechi-it-te-win Family Services. Much of his work as a lawyer was for aboriginal clients, often pro bono. He negotiated or litigated settlement of claims against a hydro-electric utility and the governments of Manitobaand Canada. He was involved in settling a class action against paper companies and governments for mercury poisoning of tribes in Ontario. He was counsel to multi-national corporations on environmental licensing. He was strategic counsel to a company that was building the world’s first commercial spaceport at Fort Churchill and was involved in negotiating the purchase of surplus SS-25 intercontinental ballistic missiles from STC Complex in Russia. He learned from tribal elders of the constitutions of two indigenous peoples, Pimicikamak and the Anishinabe Nation in Treaty No. 3, and their respective governments and helped them bring them up to date. He worked on cases in the Supreme Court of Canada, most notably the case on whether the Government of Canada could unilaterally patriate the constitution of Canada from the United Kingdom and the case concerning the validity of laws in Manitoba that were made in English and not French.

Scientific career

• Research Fellow, National Research Council of Canada(1967–1969)
• Research Officer, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited(1970–1976)
• Consultant on implications of hydro-electric development (1975–1977)
• Consultant to Alberta Cancer Hospitals Board & Alberta Government Committee on Advanced Medical Technology (1977–1978)
• Co-authored an editorial on "The Power of Biophysics" in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics

Legal career

• Associate, Taylor Brazzell McCaffrey(1981–1982) Partner, Taylor McCaffrey (1983–2007), managing partner (1988–1989), senior counsel (2007–2010)
• Adjunct Professor, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Graduate Studies] (2000–2007)

Leading cases

• The unilateral patriation case (Man. C.A. and S.C.C.)
• The Bilodeau case (s. 27 of the Manitoba Act) (Man. C.A. and S.C.C.)
• The Air Canada et al. sales tax case (S.C.C.)
• Westco Storage Ltd. v. Inter-City Gas Utilities Ltd. (C.A.; S.C.C. leave denied)
• Old St. Boniface Residents Association v. City of Winnipeg (C.A.; S.C.C.)

Past & present memberships

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Biophysical Society
• Canadian Institute for Administration of Justice
• Canadian Bar Association
• Selden Society
• Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution

Past offices

• vice-president Canadian Mental Health Association Winnipeg Region
• chairperson Strategic Planning Committee, chairperson Housing Appeal Board
• member-at-large Manitoba Advisory Committee on Sustainable Development Implementation
• director & president Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
• director Canadian Council on Children and Youth
• campaign chairperson of YM/YWCA International Development Committee

Awards

• Commonwealth Scholarship (1959)
• Monash Post-Graduate Scholarship (1961–1967)
• National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1967-1970)
• William Rachman Prize for Legal Research & Writing (1979)
• University of Manitoba Alumni Association Scholarship (1979)
• Cathy Turner Prize in Evidence (1980)
• Alf Francis Memorial Prize (1980)
• Hon. Mr. Justice Hudson Prize in Jurisprudence (1981)
• Law Society of Manitoba Prize (1981)

Publications

1960s

• Gillespie, C.J. (1966). "Electron Tunneling between Superconducting Thin Films". In Tomlin, S.G. (ed.). The Physics of Thin Films. University of Adelaide Press. p. 121.
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• Gillespie, C.J. (1967). Study of Superconductors by Electron Tunneling (Doctoral Thesis). Monash University.
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1970s

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• Gislason, G.S.; Gillespie, C.J. (1971). A Fortran Program to Analyse Sedimentation Profiles of Irradiated DNA (Report No. 61). Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment. {{cite book}}: no-break space character in |type= at position 11 (help)
• Gillespie, C.J. (1971). "The Energy of Cation-Anion Pairs in a Lecithin Membrane". Biophysical Society Abstracts. 11: 11A.
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• Dugle, D.L.; Gillespie, C.J. (1972). "Sedimentation of High Molecular Weight Single Strand DNA from Mammalian Cells". Radiation Research Society Abstracts: 4.
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• Gillespie, C.J. (1973). "The Validity of the Independence Principle and the Constant Field Equation". Biophysical Journal. 13: 165A.
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• "Kinetics of the Single-Strand Repair Mechanism in Mammalian Cells", D.L. Dugle & C.J. Gillespie, in Molecular Mechanisms for Repair of DNA, eds. P.C. Hanawalt & R.B. Setlow, Plenum Press, New York (1975) vol. B, 685.
• "Survival of X-Irradiated Hamster Cells: Analysis in Terms of the Chadwick-Leenhouts Model", C.J. Gillespie, J.D. Chapman, A.P. Reuvers & D.L. Dugle, in Cell Survival after Low Doses of Radiation: Theoretical and Clinical Implications, ed. T. Alper, The Institute of Physics & John Wiley, London (1975), 25.
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• "Radioprotectors, Radiosensitizers, and the Shape of the Mammalian Cell Survival Curve", J.D. Chapman, C.J. Gillespie, A.P. Reuvers & D.L. Dugle, in Cell Survival after Low Doses of Radiation: Theoretical and Clinical Implications, ed. T. Alper, The Institute of Physics & John Wiley, London (1975), 135.
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• "Radiation Inactivation of Mammalian Cells by Single- and Double-Events", J.D. Chapman, A.P. Reuvers & C.J. Gillespie, Biophysical Journal (1975) 15, 17A.
• "Chemical Radiosensitization Studies with Mammalian Cells Growing in Vitro", J.D. Chapman, D.L. Dugle, A.P. Reuvers, C.J. Gillespie & J. Borsa, in Radiation Research - Biomedical, Chemical and Physical Perspectives, eds. O.F. Nygaard, H.I. Adler & W.K. Sinclair Academic Press, New York, (1975) 752.
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• "DNA Damage and Repair in Relation to Mammalian Cell Survival: Implications for Microdosimetry", C.J. Gillespie, D.L. Dugle, J.D. Chapman, A.P. Reuvers & S.D. Doern, in Symposium on Microdosimetry, Euratom, Commission of the European Communities (1976), 799.
• "Radiation Chemical Probes in the Study of Mammalian Cell Inactivation and their Influence on Radiobiological Effectiveness", J.D. Chapman, A.P. Reuvers, S.D. Doern, C.J. Gillespie & D.L. Dugle, in Symposium on Microdosimetry, Euratom, Commission of the European Communities (1976), 775.
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• "Social Planning Issues in the North", C.J. Gillespie, Canadian Institute of Planners Forum (1976), 10.
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1980s

• "Radiation-Induced Events and Their Time Scale in Mammalian Cells", J.D. Chapman & C.J. Gillespie, in Advances in Radiation Biology, ed. J.T. Lett, Academic Press, New York, (1981) 9, 143.
• "The Scope of the Class Action in Canada", C.J. Gillespie, Manitoba Law Journal (1981) 11, 215.
• "On Public Appropriation of Indian Water Rights", C.J. Gillespie, Resources: Spring 1987, Vol. 18, No. 4.

1990s

• "Enforceable Rights from Administrative Guidelines?", C.J. Gillespie, Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice (1990) 3, 204.
• “Environmental Regulatory Flexibility in Manitoba”, J.M. McKernan & C.J. Gillespie, Proc. AWMA (1993) 151.05.
• “Managing Environmental Assessments in Canada”, C.J. Gillespie & J.M. McKernan, Proc. AWMA (1993) 151.07.

2000s

• "The Nature and Legal Capacity of Pimicikamak and its Government", Colin Gillespie, Taylor McCaffrey (2004).

2010s

• "The Power of Biophysics - Let's Use It", J. Donald Chapman & Colin J. Gillespie, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics (2012) 84, 309.
• "This Changes Everything" (2012), Winnipeg: Big Fizz Inc.
• "Time One: Discover How the Universe Began" (2013), Winnipeg: Big Fizz Inc.

External links

Colin Gillespie, http://www.colingillespie.com/

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