About the author

• Author: Roderick J. Wood
• Pages: 697-697

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roderick J Wood is the FR (Dick) Matthews QC Professor of Business

Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton. He teaches

and publishes in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law, personal

property security law, and commercial law. He has co-authored books

on secured transactions law in Canada and in New Zealand, and has

written extensively in various law journals. He is the 2004 recipient of

the Tevie H Miller Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Law,

a 2005 recipient of the AC Rutherford Award for Excellence in Under-

graduate Teaching at the University of Alberta, and a 2006 recipient of

a McCalla Professorship for his contribution to research in law at the

University of Alberta. Professor Wood was appointed as the inaugural

Estey Chair in Business Law at the College of Law, University of Sas-

katchewan, during the 2014–15 academic year.

Professor Wood has served as associate dean (1997 to 1999) at the

Faculty of Law, as a board member of the Alberta L aw Reform Institute

(1997 to 2001), and as commissioner of the Law Comm ission of Canada

(2001 to 2006). Professor Wood was a member of the Canadian delega-

tion at diplomatic conferences in Luxembourg in 2007 and Berlin in

2012 that produced international instruments governing the secured

f‌inancing of rail assets and space assets, and was a member of the draft-

ing committee that produced the text of the Luxembourg Protocol to the

Unidroit Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment.