About the author

• Author: John D. McCamus
• Pages: 1185-1185

1185

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John D. McCa mus, BA, MA, LLB, L LM, LSM, LLD (Hon), FRSC, is a

professor of law and university professor at the Osgoode Hall Law

School of York University, a faculty which he served as dean from

1982 to 1987. He is a member of the Ontario Bar. Prior to joining t he

faculty at Osgoode, he spent a year as a law clerk at the Supreme Court

of Canada for Chief Justice Laskin. At Osgoode, his principal a reas

of research and teaching have included private law, especially restitu-

tion and contract; commercial law; and information practices law. His

published work includes numerous books, articles, and government

reports on these and other topics; a text, co-authored with the late

Peter D. Maddaugh, The Law of Restitution, 2d ed. (Aurora, ON: Canada

Law Book, 2004); and a casebook, Cases and Mater ials on Contracts, 4th

ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2010), co-edited with

Professors Waddams, Neyers, Waldron, and Girgis. From 1990 to 1993,

he was a member and then, from 1993 to 1996, chair, of the Ontario

Law Reform Commission. In 1998, he was appointed by the American

Law Institute to the Adv isory Committee for the recently published

Restateme nt of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, 3d (2011). Since 2000,

he has been an as sociated scholar in t he Toronto off‌ice of Davies Ward

Phillips & Vineberg LLP. From 2007, he has served as chair of Legal

Aid Ontario.