{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Short description|New Zealand–Canadian legal scholar (1939–2020)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Peter Hogg | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|QC|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = Peter_Hogg_Law.JPG | alt = | caption = Hogg speaking at the University of Western Ontario in 2010 | birth_name = Peter Wardell Hogg | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1939|03|12}} | birth_place = Lower Hutt, New Zealand |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2020|2|4|1939|12|3}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | spouse = | awards = <!--notable national level awards only--> | website = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Victoria University College | Harvard University | Monash University}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | discipline = Law | sub_discipline = Constitutional law | workplaces = {{unbulleted list | {{nowrap|Victoria University of Wellington}} | York University}} | doctoral_students = Randal Graham | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = ''Constitutional Law of Canada'' | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Peter Wardell Hogg''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|QC|FRSC}} (12 March 1939 – 4 February 2020) was a New Zealand–born Canadian legal scholar and lawyer. He was best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law, with the most academic citations in Supreme Court jurisprudence of any living scholar during his lifetime, according to Emmett Macfarlane of the University of Waterloo.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/renowned-legal-scholar-and-lawyer-peter-hogg-dead-at-80/325955 |title=Renowned legal scholar and lawyer Peter Hogg dead at 80 |website=Canadian Lawyer |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 12 March 1939, Hogg attended Nelson College from 1952 to 1956.<ref name="York obit">{{cite web |url=https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/02/05/passings-peter-hogg-dean-emeritus-at-osgoode-hall-law-school-dead-at-80/ |title=Passings: Peter Hogg, dean emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, dead at 80 |date=5 February 2020 |publisher=York University |access-date=7 February 2020 |archive-date=7 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207190748/https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/02/05/passings-peter-hogg-dean-emeritus-at-osgoode-hall-law-school-dead-at-80/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | chapter=Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005 | title=Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 | year=2006 | edition=6th | type=CD-ROM}}</ref> He earned his LLB from Victoria University College, a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, in 1962,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university12.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Hi–Hy |website=Shadows of Time |access-date=7 February 2020}}</ref> his LLM from Harvard University in 1963, and his PhD from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1970.
==Career== In 1970, he was appointed Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was appointed Dean in 1998. In 2003 he accepted a position as scholar in residence at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Hogg wrote several books, including ''Constitutional Law of Canada'', the single most-cited book in decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2004, he was lead counsel for the Canadian government in the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage reference.<ref>''Reference re Same-Sex Marriage,'' [http://www.canlii.org/ca/cas/scc/2004/2004scc79.html <nowiki>[</nowiki>2004<nowiki>]</nowiki> 3 SCR 698]</ref> Hogg also advised the committee that studied Marshall Rothstein's nomination to the Supreme Court, saying the creation of the committee was important to Canada's legal history and informing it that it should not ask political questions about abortion and same-sex marriage.<ref>John Ward, "Even the paintings seemed bored as MPs question high court nominee: Column Constitutional expert Peter Hogg called it a historic moment. Then he carefully outlined the kind of historic questions the MPs shouldn't ask," ''Daily Townsman'', Cranbrook, BC: February 28, 2006, pg. 4.</ref>
Hogg supported judicial restraint in cases dealing with disputes over Canadian federalism.<ref name="Constitutional Compliance">{{cite book|title=Canadian Constitutional Law|publisher=Emond Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1-77255-070-2|edition=5th|location=Toronto|page=31|ref=Federalism debate|editor1-last=Macklem|editor1-first=Patrick|editor2-last=Rogerson|editor2-first=Carol}}</ref>
Hogg was the academic supervisor of Randal Graham during Graham's PhD studies at Osgoode Hall Law School.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Peter Hogg, taken from Emond Publishing website|title=From the forward of Statutory Interpretation: Theory and Practise by Randal Graham|url=https://emond.ca/Store/Books/Statutory-Interpretation-Theory-and-Practice?r=%2FDivision%2FLegal-Practice%3Fpage%3D6 |website=emond.ca |access-date= 11 August 2022}}</ref>
==Death== Hogg died on 4 February 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blakes.com/people/find-a-person/h/peter-hogg |title=About Peter |publisher=Blake, Cassels & Graydon |access-date=5 February 2020 |archive-date=5 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205223357/https://www.blakes.com/people/find-a-person/h/peter-hogg |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="York obit"/>
==Honours== * 1980 – appointed a Queen's Counsel * 1988 – named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. * 1991 – made an Officer of the Order of Canada. * 1996 – awarded Law Society Medal by the Law Society of Upper Canada. * 2003 – promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-3583 |title=Mr. Peter Wardell Hogg |website=The Governor General of Canada}}</ref> * 2003 – received the Canadian Bar Association's Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the law and legal scholarship in Canada. * 2003 – received from the Law Society of Upper Canada an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) * 2005 – received from Université de Montréal an honorary Doctorate. * 2006 – received from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) * 2006 – received from York University an honorary Doctor of Laws.
==Selected works== * {{cite book |last1=Hogg |first1=Peter W. |year=2007 |orig-year=1st ed. pub. 1977 |title=Constitutional Law of Canada |edition=5th |location=Toronto |publisher=Carswell |isbn=978-0-7798-1337-7}} * {{cite book |last1=Hogg |first1=Peter W. |last2=Monahan |first2=Patrick J. |author-link2=Patrick J. Monahan |last3=Wright |first3=Wade K. |author-mask=1 |year=2011 |orig-year=1st ed. pub. 1971 |title=Liability of the Crown |edition=4th |location=Toronto |publisher=Carswell |isbn=978-0-7798-3635-2}} After Hogg's death, this text now includes his name as an honourific, with the most recent edition thus: {{cite book |last1=Monahan |first1=Patrick J. |last2=Wright |first2=Wade K. |last3=Chamberlain |first3=Erika |year=2024 |title=Hogg's Liability of the Crown |edition=5th |location=Toronto |publisher=Thomson Reuters Canada |isbn=978-1-0382-0554-4}} * {{cite book |last1=Hogg |first1=Peter W. |last2=Magee |first2=Joanne E. |last3=Li |first3=Jinyan |author-mask=1 |year=2013 |orig-year=1st ed. pub. 1995 |title=Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law |edition=8th |location=Toronto |publisher=Carswell |isbn=978-0-7798-5513-1}}
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==External links== {{cite web |last1=Fine |first1=Sean |title=New Zealander Peter Hogg quietly shaped Canadian law |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-new-zealander-peter-hogg-quietly-shaped-canadian-law/ |publisher=The Globe and Mail |access-date=26 April 2020 |date=21 February 2020}}
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