Stephen Allan Scott
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| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| alma_mater = McGill University B.A., B.C.L.
Oxford University D.Phil
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Stephen Allan Scott (born May 25, 1940) is a Canadian law professor at McGill University.
Career
Scott was born in Montreal in 1940. He graduated from Westmount High School and graduated with first class honours from McGill University with a BA in 1961 with a BA in Economics and Political Science. Next he attended Oxford University on fellowships, before attending the McGill University Faculty of Law in 1963.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aoY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=n58FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4087,4095962&dq=stephen+scott+mcgill&hl=en |title=Scholarship at McGill given Scott |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |date=August 23, 1965 |newspaper=Montreal Gazette}} He graduated from the law school with a BCL in 1966, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal. In 1969 he graduated with a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He became a Full Professor of Law in 1977 and has been a Professor-Emeritus since 2003.{{cite web |url=http://people.mcgill.ca/stephen.scott/ |title=Biography: Stephen Scott |access-date=April 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522221954/http://people.mcgill.ca/stephen.scott/ |archive-date=May 22, 2013 }} He represented clients before the provincial and federal courts of Canada throughout his career.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xhMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=46EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4714,1448790&dq=stephen+scott+mcgill&hl=en |date=January 22, 1976 |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |title=Judgement on Ouellet contempt charge expected tomorrow |author=Leon Levinson}}
Known as McGill's leading scholar on the Canadian Constitution.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1996-02-18/in-quebec-these-shivers-arent-coming-from-the-cold |date=February 18, 1996 |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |title=In Quebec, These Shivers Aren't Coming From The Cold |magazine=Businessweek}} Scott has a history of making statements in favor of Canadian nationalism and the rights of anglophones and minorities in Quebec{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C1c_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=m1IMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3752,3549951&dq=stephen+scott+mcgill&hl=en |newspaper=Windsor Star |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |date=January 25, 1978 |title=Quebec Language Law}} as well as statements about federal jurisdictional issues{{cite news |url=http://www.ngnews.ca/Regional/2007-06-14/article-319715/So-sue-me-Go-for-it/1 |title=So Sue Me? Go For It! |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |publisher=Halifax Daily News |date=June 14, 2007}} and specifically the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PatUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rjsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4216,102252&dq=stephen+scott+mcgill&hl=en |title=The Canadian Illusion |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |date=November 11, 1981 |newspaper=Palm Beach Post}}
In 1996 Scott made national news in Canada by arguing that if the Province of Quebec could separate from Canada, then parts of Quebec could choose to stay with Canada, or could separate from Quebec to form their own countries—including Quebec anglophones and native populations.{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/canada/montrealers_5-2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970614224155/http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/canada/montrealers_5-2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 1997 |title=Separation Anxiety |publisher=PBS |accessdate=April 19, 2013 |date=May 2, 1996 |author=Charles Krause}}
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