Convocation Speaker Christopher Nicholls Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
Currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Canadian Business Law Journal (CBLJ) , he previously served as the CBLJ’ s Associate Editor and Corporate Finance Specialist Editor, as a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology , as Research Fellow with the Filene Research Institute (Madison, Wisconsin), and as Head of Research and Policy, Capital Markets Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. In 2015, he was named a member of the Business Law Agenda Expert Panel appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. He is a past member of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission and, from 2016-2022, served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, one of two national financial industry self-regulatory organizations that amalgamated in 2023 to form the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) Recognized as one of Canada’s pre-eminent experts in corporate law and governance, securities regulation and the regulation of financial institutions and capital markets, Professor Nicholls has acted as a consultant to law firms, government and regulatory agencies and as an expert witness. He has lectured to academic and professional audiences in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, South America, and Japan. A member of the Ontario bar, he formerly practised corporate and securities law, first with major firms in Toronto, then as a corporate finance and securities attorney in Bermuda. He is the author or co-author of seven books and many academic articles dealing with corporate law and finance, financial institutions, and capital market regulation. His work has been cited across Canada by securities commissions and courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Christopher C. Nicholls is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) and Harvard University. He holds the W. Geoff Beattie Chair in Corporate Law at Western Law. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and has also been a visiting professor and scholar at prestigious institutions including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, University of Toronto, Queens University, and Osgoode Hall Law School, and was the inaugural holder of Dalhousie Law School’s Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law. Over the past two decades, he has been regularly invited to speak in judicial education programs for Canadian (federally appointed) superior court judges organized by the National Judicial Institute.
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