Synopsis
Continuing a 30 year tradition, Contemporary Canadian Business Law , provides students with a clear understanding of the legal environment for business professionals, owners and managers in Canada. The objective of Contemporary Canadian Business Law is to inform and educate business law students who will need to identify when legal advice may be required. Students taking undergraduate business law courses are unlikely to become lawyers and are more interested in applying the principles to situations commonly found in the contemporary business world. Instructors look for a text which speaks to their students as business students rather than as potential law students.
Contemporary Canadian Business Law takes a learning goals approach to the law. A range of pedagogical tools are available to students to add clarity in development and explanation, scope, depth, interest and debate on the application of legal principles and rules to business problems.
About the Author
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 has carried on an extensive commercial and labour arbitration practice, practiced law as counsel to a Kingston, Ontario, law firm, and since 1986, acted as a vice-chair of the Ontario Public Service Grievance Board. He was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel by 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, he has authored numerous academic monographs and cases, and is the author of Contemporary Canadian Labour Relations (McGraw-Hill), Canadian Labour Relations (Prentice Hall) and Out of the Clouds, the official military history of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in World War II.
John Henry Willes is an Ontario barrister and solicitor, teaching at Queen’s University in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Business, in the LLB, Bcomm, and MBA programmes. He is the past co-ordinator and a 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, as well as a Canadian Investment Manager designation from the Canadian Securities Institute. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, in London England. In addition to serving clients in North America and Western Europe, his business activities include 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 member of the editorial advisory boards of Financial Crime Review and the forthcoming European Financial Law Review.
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