Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Customs and Excise (2021 Reissue) / Damages (2021 Reissue)

Bruce Feldthusen, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., is currently a professor of law at the University of Ottawa. He retired from the University on June 30, 2024. He has been teaching and writing about tort law for over forty years, primarily in Canada, but also in the United States and Australia. He was a professor of law at the University of Western Ontario from 1977 to 1999 and served as Dean of the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa from 2000 to 2013. He is co-author of Canadian Tort Law, 12th Edition, with Margaret Hall, Erik Knutsen and Hilary Young, as well as Canadian Tort Law, Cases Notes & Materials, 16th Edition, with Lewis Klar. He is also known for his book, Economic Negligence, now in its sixth edition, which is frequently cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. He was one of the first legal academics to study civil remedies for victims of sexual assault. Feldthusen was the research director for the Ontario Law Reform Commission’s 1989 study on Exemplary Damages, which has been cited with approval and adopted in many common law jurisdictions in Canada and abroad. He has also practised law, and worked frequently as a litigation consultant on issues in tort law.

Lawrence David, B.A., B.C.L./LL.B., LL.M., serves as Legal Counsel with Canada’s federal Department of Justice. He is also Part-Time Law Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. Previously, he served as Policy Advisor at Canada’s Privy Council Office, supporting the Prime Minister, the Minister of Democratic Institutions, and Cabinet. In 2015-16, he served as Law Clerk to Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella at the Supreme Court of Canada. David’s political and public service career also includes positions at the Parliament of Canada (House of Commons and Senate), the Attorney General of Canada, and the Quebec Court of Appeal. He has advised legislators, Cabinet Ministers and judges, devised legal strategies in successful litigation at several levels of court, and helped design statutes and judgments of significant national importance. He is a first-generation Canadian and lawyer. He completed his legal education at Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2018) and McGill University (B.C.L./LL.B., 2014).

Greg Kanargelidis, B.Comm., LL.B., LL.M., has more than 30 years of experience practising in the areas of international trade, customs and commodity tax law. He heads the International Trade and Investment group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, and is recognized as one of the leading international trade and customs lawyers in Canada and the world. Greg has extensive experience representing Canadian and foreign clients with respect to cross-border trade and investment issues. He advises clients on multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements, bilateral investment agreements, economic sanctions, export and import controls, and government procurement disputes. Greg has substantial experience in and regularly assists clients with trade remedy matters. Greg is a noted expert in all areas of customs law, and also assists clients with respect to planning, compliance and appeals involving federal and provincial commodity taxes.

Brenda C. Swick, B.Sc. (Hons Econ), LL.B., leads the International Trade Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. One of Canada’s leading practitioners in international trade and investment law, Ms. Swick also offers extensive experience in government contracting, anti-corruption enforcement and compliance, and government relations. Her practice focuses on economic sanctions, export, import and technology transfer controls, defence trade controls, blocking measures, national security measures, antidumping, countervail and safeguard measures, customs and tariffs, government contracting as well as anti-corruption enforcement and compliance. The Government of Canada appointed Ms. Swick as an expert arbitrator under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA, and this appointment will continue under CUSMA.