Craig Scott (politician)
| Craig Scott | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Toronto—Danforth |
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In office March 19, 2012 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Jack Layton |
| Succeeded by | Julie Dabrusin |
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March 14, 1962 Windsor, Nova Scotia |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Kovit Ratchadasri |
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| Occupation | law professor |
Craig M. Scott (born March 14, 1962) is a Canadian politician and academic. Formerly a law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a director of the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, he was elected as the New Democratic Party candidate in a federal by-election in Toronto—Danforth on March 19, 2012, following the death of Jack Layton in August 2011.
Scott was born and raised in Windsor, Nova Scotia. From 1979 to 1981, he attended Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Canada, where he gained the International Baccalaureate Diploma. He then earned undergraduate degrees from McGill University and from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College. He has a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University and a Masters of Law from the London School of Economics. His academic specialty is international law with a focus on human rights law. Scott was a professor in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1989 to 2001. He was Osgoode Law School's Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 2001 to 2004 and has remained on the faculty subsequently.
Openly gay, Scott and his partner Kovit Ratchadasri previously owned the Craig Scott Gallery, an art gallery on Berkeley Street near Toronto's Distillery District.
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