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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

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.

He was elected as a Saskatchewan Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party in 1988 and was re-elected in 1993 and 1997.


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