Peter Wardell Hogg CC QC FRSC (12 March 1939 – 4 February 2020) was a New Zealand-born Canadian legal scholar and lawyer.
He was best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law, with the most academic citations in Supreme Court jurisprudence of any living scholar during his lifetime, according to Emmett Macfarlane of the University of Waterloo.
[1] Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 12 March 1939, Hogg attended Nelson College from 1952 to 1956.
In 2003 he accepted a position as scholar in residence at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
[6] Hogg supported judicial restraint in cases dealing with disputes over Canadian federalism.