Canadian Corporate Law - Cases, Notes & Materials, 4th Edition

Bruce Welling, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., is Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He also serves as Counsel to a patent law firm and is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. He is the author of various corporate law and property law texts.

Lionel D. Smith, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., D.Phil., M.A., is James McGill Professor of Law at McGill University. Prior to that, he was Professor of Law at the University of Alberta and Oxford University. His research interests are in trusts, unjust enrichment, comparative law, and company and commercial law. He is the author of various trusts law texts.

Leonard I. Rotman, B.A. (Toronto – With Distinction), LL.B. (Queen’s), LL.M. (Osgoode Hall), S.J.D. (Toronto), is Professor of Law and Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, which he joined in August, 2020. He was previously Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, where he taught from 2012-2020. He joined Dalhousie from the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, which he joined as Assistant Professor in 1998, became Associate Professor with tenure in 2000, and Full Professor in 2001. He was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta from 1996-8 and a member of the Ontario Bar from 1994-2012. Professor Rotman has been invited to serve as Visiting Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA and University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, was named the inaugural Visiting Scholar at the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and was awarded a T.C. Beirne Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Fiduciary Law (2005) was shortlisted for the 2007 Walter Owen book prize as the best new book in Canadian law. He is also the author of Parallel Paths: Fiduciary Doctrine and the Crown-Native Relationship in Canada (1996), Contributing Editor (with Bruce Welling and Lionel Smith) of Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 4th ed. (2010), and Contributing Editor-in-Chief of Constitutional Law: Cases, Commentary and Principles (2008) (with Bruce Elman and Gerald Gall, eds.). Professor Rotman is the author of numerous essays, chapters and law review articles addressing substantive issues in Aboriginal Law, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law and Governance, Equity, Fiduciary Law, Legal History, Remedies, Trusts, Unincorporated Associations, and Unjust Enrichment/Restitution. He is also formerly Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice. He has presented papers at conferences and law schools in Canada, the United States, England, France, Israel and New Zealand, and his work has been cited by domestic and international commissions and courts.