Jonnette Watson Hamilton
___________________________ Jonnette Watson Hamilton Telephone: (403)220-7253 |
B.A. (Alta.), LL.B. (Dal.), LL.M. (Col.) Professor Watson Hamilton was called to the Alberta Bar in 1979 and practiced law in Wetaskiwin, Alberta until 1991. She was also a member of the Alberta Farm Debt Review Board from 1986 to 1991 and mediated disputes between insolvent farmers and their creditors.After attending Columbia Law School in New York City in 1991/92 for her LL.M., Professor Watson Hamilton began teaching in the faculty in the fall of 1992. Professor Watson Hamilton has taught the following subjects: commercial transactions, personal property security, banking, bills of exchange, commercial arbitration, sale of goods, dispute resolution, legal profession and ethics, legal process, legal communication, legal research, legal theory, feminist legal theory, property theory, and property law. Her research interests are in the areas of legal theory, legal reasoning, equality, property law and dispute resolution. Her 2010 work for the Alberta Law Reform Institute on a review of 10 years of case law considering the Matrimonial Property Act is available here. |