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,CONTEMPORARY CANADIANBusiness Law PRINCIPLES & CASES
12th
E dition
John A. Willes, QC
BA, LLB, MBA, LLM
Barrister-at-Law
Barrister and Solicitor, Notary
Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University
John H. Willes
BComm, LLB, MBA, LLM, CIM, FSALS
Barrister and Solicitor, Notary
,Contemporary Canadian Business Law: Principles and Cases
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John A. Willes
John A. Willes is an Ontario Barrister and Solicitor, and Emeritus Professor of Labour
Relations and Business Law at the School of Business, Queen’s University. He was
called to the Bar of Ontario in 1960, and joined the faculty of Queen’s University
on a full-time basis in 1969, where he assumed responsibility for the business law
program. Throughout his teaching career, he carried on an extensive commercial and
labour arbitration practice, practised law as Counsel to a Kingston, Ontario, law firm,
and from 1986 to 2000, acted as a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Public Service Grievance
Board. During his long career as a lawyer, he has provided legal advice to many
clients with extensive business interests in Canada, the United States, and abroad. He
was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel by the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of
Ontario in 1984.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen’s University, Bachelor of Laws
and Master of Laws degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and a
Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto.
In addition to Contemporary Canadian Business Law (12th ed.) (McGraw-Hill
Canada), he has authored numerous academic monographs and cases, and is the
author of Contemporary Canadian Labour Relations (McGraw-Hill Canada), Canadian
Labour Relations (Prentice Hall), and Out of the Clouds, the official military history of
the First Canadian Parachute Battalion in World War II. Professor Willes is the co-
author with John H. Willes of International Business Law (McGraw-Hill, U.S.A., 2004),
and Fundamentals of Canadian Business Law (2nd ed.) (McGraw Hill Canada, 2008).
John H. Willes
John H. Willes is an Ontario Barrister and Solicitor. For many years, he taught at
Queen’s University in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Business, in the LLB,
BComm, and MBA programs. He is the former co-ordinator and principal instructor
of the International Business and International Law Programme at Herstmonceux
Castle International Study Centre in the United Kingdom.
He holds Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Business
Administration degrees from Queen’s University, and a Master of Laws from Vrije
University, Brussels, Belgium. He also holds a Canadian Investment Manager designa-
tion from the Canadian Securities Institute. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society
for Advanced Legal Studies, in London, England, and was a Visiting Fellow at the
University of London, England, in 2002.
In addition to serving clients in North America and Western Europe, his business
activities included advising on legislative transition in the republics of the former
Soviet Union and enterprise restructuring and business management in the People’s
Republic of China. He is a past member of the editorial advisory boards of Financial
Crime Review and the European Financial Law Review. He is the co-author, with John
A. Willes, of International Business Law (McGraw-Hill, U.S.A., 2004), and Fundamentals
of Canadian Business Law (2nd ed.) (McGraw-Hill Canada, 2008).
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