2016 Prime of Life Achievement Award

Professor Emeritus Daniel Ish started his faculty career at the U of S in 1975. Soon he established himself as a beloved professor of tax and labour relations law. He developed an innovative focus on the law on cooperatives and was Director of the Centre for the Study of Cooperatives (1989-95). He served as the Dean of the College of Law during three different terms: 1982-88, 1996-87 & 2002-04.

Following retirement, he became the Chief Adjudicator of the Indian Residential Schools Adjustment Secretariat as part of the agreed settlement process by courts in nine provinces to determine claims for compensation for thousands of residential school survivors. This process was reported to have resulted in awards of $3 billion to the residential school survivors. For his role in this process, Dan was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2014. Earlier, he was given the designation of Queen’s Counsel by the Province of Saskatchewan (1991).