Craig Brown is counsel to Thomas Gold Pettingill LLP and provides advice to clients on insurance coverage and tort law issues. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches on a wide variety of subjects including insurance and tort law.

Craig graduated LLB (hons) from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1973. He obtained an LLM from the University of Illinois in 1977 and an LLD from the University of Otago in 1994. He served on the legal staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand from 1973 to 1975. Subsequently he taught law at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Illinois.

Craig has been a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario since 1977. Professor Brown’s academic and professional interests centre on insurance law and torts. He is the author of Insurance Law in Canada (now in its 6th student edition) which is also published as part of a loose-leaf series co-authored with Tom Donnelly of Thomas Gold Pettingill LLP. This work has been cited frequently by appellate courts in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and is widely viewed as Canada’s leading insurance law text.

Craig has written three other books on insurance law as well as numerous insurance articles. He has also written on other subjects ranging from lawyers and politics to golf and the law. Professor Brown has served as a consultant to government, industry associations and lawyers on matters relating to insurance law and acts as an arbitrator in insurance matters.