About the Author

• Author: Christopher C. Nicholls
• Profession: Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
• Pages: 374-374

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christophe r C. Nicholls holds the Stephen Dattels Chair in Cor porate

Finance Law at the University of Western Ontario. He is a graduate

of the University of Ottawa, Osgoode Hall L aw School, and Harvard

Universit y.

Before coming to Western in 2006, Professor Nicholls was a mem-

ber of the Dalhousie University Faculty of Law (now the Schulich

School of Law at Dalhousie University) where he was the inaugural

holder of the Purdy Crawford Chair in Busine ss Law. Prior to joining

the faculty of Dalhousie, he practised corporate and securities law in

Toronto and in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Professor Nicholls has been a vi siting (adjunct) professor at the

University of Toronto Faculty of Law, a visiting professor at Queen’s

University Faculty of Law, a visiting scholar at the Cent re for Corporate

and Commercial Law at the University of Cambridge, the Falconbridge

Professor of Commercial Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and a Her-

bert Smith Visitor to the University of Ca mbridge Faculty of Law.

He has served as a member (Commissioner) of the Nova Scotia Se-

curities Commi ssion, as associate ed itor and corporate f‌inance law spe-

cialist editor for the Canadian Business Law Journal, and as a member

of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.

He is the author of numerous articles and monographs, as well a s four

other books including Securities Law (with Jeffrey MacIntosh, Irwin

Law, 2002).