About the Author

• Author: Vern Krishna
• Pages: 515-515

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About the Author

Vern Krishna, CM, QC, FRSC, FCPA, has earned a B Comm (Man-

chester), MBA, LLB (Alberta), DCL (Cambridge), and LLM (Har-

vard). He is now a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. He

is also Of Counsel, Tax Chambers LLP (Toronto). Professor Krishna

is Queen’s Counsel, a member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of

the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Governor General’s 125th

Anniversary Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada). He

has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1991

and served as its Treasurer from 2001–03.

Professor Krishna is the author of seventeen texts in law, includ-

ing, most recently, Volumes 1 (Personal) and 2 (Corporate) of e

Fundamentals of Canadian Income Tax, Income Tax Law (2012), three

volumes on general taxation, corporate taxation, and international

taxation in Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, and the Editor of Canada’s Tax

Treaties. He is listed in Who’s Who, and Lexpert has recognized him in

Best Lawyers in Canada in Tax Law, Estates and Trusts, and Appellate

Advocacy.