Donald Malcolm McRae, CC, ONZM, FRSC, (born 1944) is a Canadian-New Zealand legal scholar at the University of Ottawa.[1] McRae was born in Napier, New Zealand in 1944.[citation needed] McRae was previously the professor of law at the University of British Columbia.[2] He was selected as a panel judge for the first Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement and Israel–United States Free Trade Agreement discussion panels.[2] McRae has authored several books relating to fisheries, oceans and international law. McRae was appointed by governor general David Lloyd Johnston as a companion of the Order of Canada on December 26, 2014.[3] He was appointed an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2017 New Years Honours List.[4]