Bernard Hibbitts

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Bernard J. Hibbitts is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and publisher currently teaching in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is best known as the founder and publisher of JURIST, the Webby award-winning online legal news service, established in 1996.

A Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, Hibbitts is a graduate in law of Oxford University (B.A. Juris 1983), Dalhousie University (LL.B. 1984), the University of Toronto (LL.M. 1986), and the Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1988). His work has been published in the New York University Law Review, the McGill Law Journal, American Ethnologist, the British Medical Journal, Intellectual Property, Afronet, and Wired Magazine.