About the Author

• Author: J. Anthony VanDuzer
• Pages: 727-728

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. Anthony VanDuzer, BA, LLB, L LM, is a full professor and former vice

dean at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, of the University

of Ottawa. He holds the Hyman Soloway Cha ir of Business and Trade

Law at the law school and is an adjunct rese arch professor at the Nor-

man Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. At

the University of Ottawa, he teaches contr acts and upper-year courses

on domestic and international business law, and has received several

teaching awards. He ha s also taught in the Universit y of Ottawa’s Exec-

utive MBA program, at Queen’s University’s International Studie s Cen-

tre, and at the faculties of law at the Univers ity of Muenster in Germ any

and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Prior to his academic

career, Professor VanDuzer worked as a corporate lawyer at Fasken.

As a consultant, Professor VanDuzer has advised Industry Canad a,

the Competition Bureau, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter-

national Trade, the Law Society of Ontar io, the NAFTA Secretariat, and

the Commonwealth Secretar iat. He was a member of the Academic Ad-

visory Council to t he deputy minister for inter national trade from 2002

to 2006, and has participated in technical assistance projects involving

transition and developing economies, including Ar menia, Bangladesh,

China, El Salvador, Georgia, Kyrgyzsta n, Russia, Thaila nd, Ukraine,

Vietnam, and the countrie s of the Caribbean Community. He has acted

as an outside legal asses sor for the Central and Eastern European Law

Initiative of the America n Bar Association in its reviews of a foreign

trade law for Bosnia-Herzegovin a and a Competition Protection Act for