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Ian Greene

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School of Public Policy and Administration

Professor Emeritus

Office: 230 McLaughlin College
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 55384
Email: igreene@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/igreene/

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Ian is a Professor Emeritus and University Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration. Now mostly retired, he taught courses in Canadian public law, the Charter of Rights, court organization and management, and public sector ethics. He is a former Master of McLaughlin College, and the former Director of the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law program. He serves on the Executive of the York Collegium for Practical Ethics.

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Ian is a former Master of McLaughlin College. Now mostly retired, he taught courses in Canadian public law, ethics in the public service, the Charter of Rights, ethics and administrative law, and theoretical perspectives in public law.

He has been coordinator of York's undergraduate program in public policy and administration, as well as the undergraduate director in the political science department. He was an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts from 1997 to 2000. He has been associate director of York's MPA Programme, and co-director of the professional development LLM programme in administrative law.

He is a member of the executive of the Collegium for Practical Ethics, and from 2003 to 2004, he was Chair of the York University Senate.

On the research front, Ian's newest co-authored books are Beverley McLachlin: The Legacy of a Supreme Court Chief Justice (Lorimer, 2919) and Honest Politics Now (Lorimer, 2017). The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was published by Lorimer in 2014. The book tells the story behind the most important Supreme Court decisions on the Charter and Aboriginal rights. He authored The Courts (UBC Press) in 2006, and was the principal author of Final Appeal, which was published in 1998 and co-authored with Carl Baar, Peter McCormick, George Szablowski and Martin Thomas. The book analyses decision-making in Canadian appeal courts, and is based on interviews with 101 of Canada s appellate court judges, including 8 of the 9 Supreme Court of Canada judges. Ian's co-authored book with David Shugarman, Honest Politics, was published in March, 1997. His other books are The Charter of Rights (1989), and Judges and Judging (1990), with Peter McCormick. As well, he was a member of the research team, led by Prof. Maureen Mancuso at the University of Guelph, which published A Question of Ethics (Oxford) in 1998 (second edition, 2006). Ian is a co-author of a book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Federal Court, which will be published in 2021.

Degrees

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, University of Alberta

Professional Leadership

Master, McLaughlin College, 2004-2009, and 2011-13 Director, Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law Program, 2006-2009 Chair, York University Senate, 2003-2004 Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, 1997-2000 Co-ordinator, Graduate Diploma in Justice System Administration, 2000–2009, & 2014-15

Community Contributions

Co-Chair, York University Retirees Association, Executive Member, YU-CARE (Centre for Aging Resarch and Education), Executive Member, York Collegium for Practical Ethics, Executive Member, International Justice Partnership

Research Interests

Public Administration , Ethics, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ethical Politics, Court and Tribunal Administration, Public Policy and Administration