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E-mail:  gvanert@litigationchambers.com

Gib van Ert is a litigation associate at Hunter Litigation Chambers practicing general civil litigation and administrative law. Gib was called to the bar in 2004 after serving as a law clerk in both the Supreme Court of Canada and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Gib has degrees from McGill University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, England, and is the author of several books and articles on international and constitutional law.

Education  
B.A. (Hons.) in History, McGill University, 1995 
B.A. (Hons.) in Law, University of Cambridge, 1998 
LL.M., University of Toronto, 2000 
 
Clerkships 
British Columbia Court of Appeal, 2001-2002
Supreme Court of Canada, January-December 2003

Bar Admission 
British Columbia, 2004

Selected Publications

Chapter four, "Canada" in D. Sloss, ed., The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Using International Law in Canadian Courts, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008)

"What is reception law?" in O. Fitzgerald (ed), The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006) 85

"Labour Conventions and Comprehensive Claim Agreements: A New Model for Subfederal Participation in Canadian International Treaty-Making" (with S. Matiation) in O. Fitzgerald (ed), The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006)

"The Admissibility of International Legal Evidence" (2005) 84 Canadian Bar Review 31

International Human Rights Law (with M. Freeman) (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004)

"Judicial notice and reception theory: thoughts on the contribution of Ronald St. John Macdonald" [2002] Canadian Yearbook of International Law

"The Problems and promise of Spraytech v. Hudson" [2001] Canadian Yearbook of International Law 371-385

"The legal character of provincial agreements with foreign governments" (2001) 24 Les Cahiers de Droit 1093-1124

"Using treaties in Canadian courts” [2000"] Canadian Yearbook of International Law
3-87

"Nationality, State succession, and the right of option: the case of Quebec" [1998] Canadian Yearbook of International Law 151-180