David G. Bell

BA (Queen’s), MA Queen’s, LL B (UNB), LL M (Harvard) was called to the NB bar in 1982. After several years of private practice and lecturing in History and Law, Professor Bell joined the Faculty on a full-time basis in 1985. He also taught law for many years at Université de Sherbrooke. His usual subjects are Contracts, Legal History and Trusts.

In 2012 Professor Bell resumed teaching at the Faculty after several years as head of the UNB faculty union. Recent publications reflect diverse historical interests: Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick: A Defining Conflict for Canada’s Political Culture (2013); “Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes” (with J. B. Cahill & H. A. Whitfield) in B. Walker (ed), African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (2012), 363-420; “Petticoat Apostle: The Preaching Adventures of Susannah Lynds McCurdy”, in S. Henderson (ed), New England Planters in the Atlantic World, 1759-1830 (2012), 257-68; and “‘Slamming the Door on Brains’: Two Early 20th-Century Law Schools and the Narrowing of Educational Opportunity”, in C. Backhouse & W. Pue (eds), Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History (2009), 31-48.

He is a member of a number of editorial advisory boards, including the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He co-manages the listserv for Anglican and Episcopal world history.