Chris Axworthy

Chris Axworthy QC

Member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly for Saskatoon Fairview
In office June 28, 1999 – November 5, 2003
Preceded by	Bob Mitchell
Succeeded by	Andy Iwanchuk
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar Saskatoon—Clark's Crossing (1988-1997)
In office November 21, 1988 – June 1, 1999
Preceded by	Ray Hnatyshyn
Succeeded by	Dennis Gruending

Personal details
Born	(1947-03-10) March 10, 1947 (age 70) Plymouth, United Kingdom
Political party	Liberal Party of Canada (2004–present) New Democratic Party (1988–2004)

Christopher S. Axworthy, QC (born March 10, 1947, Plymouth, United Kingdom) is a Canadian politician.

After teaching law at the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie Law School, Chris Axworthy came to Saskatoon in 1984 as the founding executive director of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and as a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2003 he returned to the University of Saskatchewan as a professor of law, where he taught until the spring of 2008. In the spring of 2008, he was appointed as Dean of Robson Hall (Faculty of Law - University of Manitoba) for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2008. He is also the President of the Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law. In May 2010, Axworthy assumed the position as the Founding Dean of Law at Thompson Rivers University's new law school, which opened in Fall 2011. On July 15, 2013 he resigned this position.