About the author

• Author: Christopher Nicholls
• Pages: 519-520

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher C Nicholls is a Professor of Law at Western University’s

Faculty of Law where he is the inaugural holder of the W Geoff Beattie

Chair in Corporate Law, and a 2013 recipient of a Western University

Faculty Scholar Award.

Before coming to Western University in 2006, Professor Nicholls

was a member of the faculty 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 Business Law.

Prior to beginning his academic career, he practised corporate and se-

curities law in Toronto and in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Professor Nicholls has been a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Pro-

fessor of Law at the Harvard Law School, a Herbert Smith Visitor at the

University of Cambridge, a Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School,

a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Tokyo, and the Falcon-

bridge Visiting Professor of Commercial Law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

He has also been a visiting professor at the law faculties of Queen’s Uni-

versity and the University of Toronto. He has acted as a consultant to

private law f‌irms, government and regulatory agencies, and has lectured

to academic and professional audiences in Canada, the United States, the

United Kingdom, Australia, South America, and Japan.

He has previously served as a Member (Commissioner) of the Nova

Scotia Securities Commission, as Head of Research and Policy for the

Capital Markets Institute, Rotman School of Management, University

of Toronto, and as a Research Fellow for the Filene Research Institute,