Peter Hogg

Peter Hogg CC QC FRSC
Hogg speaking at the University of Western Ontario in 2010
Born	Peter Wardell Hogg (1939-03-12) March 12, 1939 Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Alma mater	University of New Zealand Harvard University Monash University
Occupation	Constitutional law scholar
Notable work	Constitutional Law of Canada

Peter Wardell Hogg, CC QC FRSC (born March 12, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as the leading authority on Canadian constitutional law.

Early life and education

Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Hogg attended Nelson College from 1952 to 1956. He earned his LL.B. from the University of New Zealand in 1962, his LL.M. from Harvard University in 1963, and his Ph.D. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1970.

Career

In 1970, he was appointed Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto and was appointed Dean in 1998. In 2003 he accepted a position as scholar in residence at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

Hogg has written several books, including Constitutional Law of Canada, the single most-cited book in decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2004, he was lead counsel for the Canadian Government in the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage reference. Hogg also advised the committee that studied Marshall Rothstein's nomination to the Supreme Court, saying the creation of the committee was important to Canada's legal history and informing it that it should not ask political questions about abortion and same-sex marriage.

Honours

• 1980 - appointed a Queen's Counsel
• 1988 - named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
• 1991 - made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
• 1996 - awarded Law Society Medal by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
• 2003 - promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.
• 2003 - received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the law and legal scholarship in Canada.
• 2003 - received from the Law Society of Upper Canada an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
• 2005 - received from Universite de Montreal an honorary Doctorate.
• 2006 - received from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.)
• 2006 - received from York University an honorary Doctor of Laws.

Selected works

• Hogg, Peter W. (2007) [1st ed. pub. 1977]. Constitutional Law of Canada (5th ed.). Toronto: Carswell. ISBN 978-0-7798-1337-7.
• —; Monahan, Patrick J.; Wright, Wade K. (2011) [1st ed. pub. 1971]. Liability of the Crown (4th ed.). Toronto: Carswell. ISBN 978-0-7798-3635-2.
• —; Magee, Joanne E.; Li, Jinyan (2013) [1st ed. pub. 1995]. Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law (8th ed.). Toronto: Carswell. ISBN 978-0-7798-5513-1.