BA Joint Honours, anthropology/geography (McGill), MA International Affairs (Carleton), LLB (Ottawa), LLM (Yale), on the bars of Ontario, New York and the District of Columbia, Assistant Professor.
As of 2005-2006, Craig teaches public international law, national security law, administrative law, and public law & legislation and co-teaches the law of Canadian democracy. He also runs the annual Foreign Policy Practicum and supervises the Public Interest Research Initiative.
Much of Craig’s present research and writing relates to international law, national security, human rights and democratic accountability. He is the co-author, with part-time Professor Aaron Freeman, of the Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian Democracy. His past academic and public policy work with groups such as Rights & Democracy and Amnesty International has focused on issues of business and international human rights, especially in conflict zones.
Craig joined the Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in 2003. Before that, Craig was law clerk to Mr. Justice Andrew MacKay at the Federal Court of Canada in 1997-1998 and was a lecturer at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, while completing graduate work at Yale, Craig served as research director for the Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission, co-chaired by the Honourable Ed Broadbent and Mr. Avie Bennett. From 2001 to 2003 Craig practiced international trade law with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Washington D.C., representing clients in proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Trade Representative and the World Trade Organization. While in law school he served briefly as a staff researcher for Ralph Nader’s Essential Information in Washington D.C. and worked on land claims issues for an aboriginal organization in Guyana, South America.
