About the Author

• Author: Vern Krishna
• Pages: 293-293

About the Author 293

About the Author

Vern Krishna, CM, QC, FRSC, FCGA, MCIArb, earned a B Comm

(Manchester), MBA, LLB (Alberta), DCL (Cambridge) and LLM

(Harvard). He is a professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of

Law. He is also of Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and Execu-

tive Director of the Tax Research Centre at the University of Ot-

tawa. Professor Krishna is a member of the Order of Canada, an

honourary Doctor of Laws from the Law Society of Ontario, and a

Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been a Bencher of the Law So-

ciety of Upper Canada since 1991 and served as its Treasurer from

2001–03.

Professor Krishna is the author of e Fundamentals of Can-

adian Income Tax, now in its 9th edition, Income Tax Law (2012),

three volumes on general taxation, corporate taxation, and inter-

national 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 Trusts & Estates and

Tax Law.