Ian F.G. Baxter was educated at Aberdeen University, and was a Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln's Inn and Osgoode Hall. He has served as Director of the Commercial Law Programme of Osgoode Hall Law School, and of the Family Law Project, Ontario Law Reform Commission. In 1953 he joined the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School and, in 1966, the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Law.