Tom Isaac

Appointed Director, AME BC
Aboriginal Law Specialist
McCarthy Tétrault LLP

 
Tom Isaac is a partner in the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault and National Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Aboriginal Law Group.  He advises industry and government clients across Canada on aboriginal, energy, natural resource and environmental assessment matters and regularly acts as a negotiator for industry and governments dealing with aboriginal groups. 

He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, the Northwest Territories Supreme Court and the British Columbia Environmental Appeal Board dealing with aboriginal legal matters.  He was a former Chief Treaty Negotiator for the Province of British Columbia and prior to that was Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of the Northwest Territories responsible for establishing Nunavut. 

He is the author of Aboriginal Law: Commentary, Cases and Materials (3 editions), Aboriginal Title and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Maritimes: The Marshall Decision and Beyond, along with four other books and numerous articles on aboriginal legal matters.

Mr. Isaac’s published work in this area has been cited with approval by courts across Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal.  Mr. Isaac is a member of the law societies of British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.