Steven Penney

Steven Penney is a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. Born and raised in Edmonton, he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. He researches and teaches in the areas of criminal procedure, evidence, and substantive criminal law and is co-author of Criminal Procedure in Canada. Previously, he was Associate Dean (Graduate Studies & Research) at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario; Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, and law clerk to Mr Justice Gérard V La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada. He is the winner of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award (2020) and the Law  Society of Alberta / Canadian Bar Association Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship (2021).