Sanjeev Anand

Sanjeev Anand became Dean of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan On July 1, 2011. Prior to that, he was a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, a Master of Laws degree from the University of Alberta, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in law from Osgoode Hall Law School. Dr. Anand teaches and researches in five fields: substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, evidence, and constitutional law. He has authored over thirty articles in such scholarly journals as the Queen's Law Journal, the Dalhousie Law Journal, the Alberta Law Review, the Saskatchewan Law Review, the Canadian Bar Review, the Canadian Criminal Law Review, the National Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Criminal Law Quarterly.

Dr. Anand is the co-author (with Eric Colvin) of Principles of Criminal Law,3d ed. (2007), a treatise that critically explores the general principles underlying the law of criminal culpability in Canada and he is the co-author (with Nicholas Bala) of Youth Criminal Justice Law, 2d ed. (2009), a book that analyzes jurisprudential developments concerning the Youth Criminal Justice Act. His work has been cited by courts across the nation, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

He has done considerable consulting on law reform issues in the criminal law field with the federal government and he is a frequent media commentator on criminal and constitutional law issues. In 2005, Professor Anand was appointed Independent Chairperson presiding over serious disciplinary offence hearings under the federal Corrections and Conditional Release Act in relation to inmates at the Edmonton Institution maximum security penitentiary. Prior to entering the academy in 1999, Dr. Anand was Appellate Counsel in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Alberta Department of Justice. Before that he was a Crown Prosecutor in Edmonton. Professor Anand began his career as a Legal Aid staff lawyer whose practice primarily dealt with the defense of young offenders.