BRUCE ZIFF teaches property law, property theory, and land titles at the University Alberta, where he has been a member of the Faculty of Law since 1981. He was educated at Carleton, University of Ottawa, and Oxford.

Professor Ziff is a recipient of the A.C. Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1988). and served as the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law from 1989-91. In 1991-92, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong in Australia. The following year served as a Special Counsel for the Alberta Law Reform Institute, where he produced a report on reform of the law governing the matrimonial home. Shortly afterwards, he was retained to assist in a law reform project in Ukraine.

Ziff is the author of Principles of Property Law (2006) in its 4th edition, and Unforeseen Legacies: Reuben Wells Leonard and the Leonard Foundation Trust (2000). He is a co-editor of Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation (1997), and A Property Law Reader, 2nd ed. (2008).