Public Policy and Administration Professor at York University
Ian was a member of the Department of Political Science from 1985, and is now a member of York's School of Public Policy and Administration, which was established in 2006. He was the Master of McLaughlin College at York University from 2004-2009, and again in 2011-12.
He was also the Director of the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law Program from 2006-2009. He has been the Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Justice system Administration, and the Graduate Diploma in Democratic Administration. Before his retirement, he taught courses in Canadian public law, the Charter of Rights, judicial administration, program evaluation, political ethics, Canadian government, and public administration. He has been coordinator of York's undergraduate program in public policy and administration, as well as the undergraduate director in the political science department. He was an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts from 1997 to 2000. He has been associate director of York's MPA Programme, and co-director of the professional development LLM programme in administrative law. He is a member of the Executive of the York Collegium for Practical Ethics, and the Centre for Public Policy and Law. From 2003 to 2004, he was Chair of the York University Senate.
On the research front, Ian's most recent books are The Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal: 50 Years of History (2021, with Martine Valois, Craig Forcese and Peter McCormick), Beverley McLachlin: The Legacy of the Supreme Court Chief Justice (2019, with Peter McCormick) and Honest Politics Now (2017, with David Shugarman). In 2014, he published The Charter of Rights and Freedoms: 30 + Years of Decisions that Shape Canadian Life (Lorimer). In 2006, his book The Courts was published as part of the Canadian Democratic Audit series. He was the principal author of Final Appeal, which was published in 1998 and co-authored with Carl Baar, Peter McCormick, George Szablowski and Martin Thomas. The book analyses decision-making in Canadian appeal courts, and is based on interviews with 101 of Canada s appellate court judges, including 8 of the 9 Supreme Court of Canada judges. He has just completed his chapter contributions to a book marking the 50th anniversary of the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal (with Martine Valois, Craig Forcese and Peter McCormick).
Ian is Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Justice Partnership.
Ian Greene's CV is here: CV Greene August 2023.
