Managing the Law: The Legal Aspects of Doing Business, 6th edition

Mitchell McInnes, PhD (Cambridge), LLM (Cambridge), LLB (Alberta), BA(Alberta), of the Alberta Bar, Professor

Professor McInnes is a member of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law. He previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Melbourne, and Deakin University in Australia. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and served as a Legal Research Officer with the Alberta Court of Appeal.

Professor McInnes' research focuses on Unjust Enrichment, Restitution, Trusts, Torts, Contracts, Remedies, and Wills. He is the author of The Canadian Law of Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (2014), and a co-author of Managing the Law: The Legal Aspects of Doing Business (2002, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2021), Oosterhoff on Trusts (2004, 2009, 2014, 2019), Oosterhoff on Wills and Succession (2016, 2021), Fridman's Law of Torts in Canada (2020), Introduction to the Law of Torts (2020), Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (2000,2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019), and Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution (2004), He served as editor for Understanding Unjust Enrichment(2006) and Restitution: Developments in Unjust Enrichment (1996).

In addition, Professor McInnes has published more than 150 articles, comments, and reviews in leading journals, including the Law Quarterly Review, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Canadian Bar Review, and the University of Toronto Law Journal. His work has been relied upon by a number of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the High Court of Australia, and the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

In 2016, Professor McInnes received the Law Society of Alberta's Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship. His efforts in the classroom have been recognized by the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which is the University of Alberta's highest teaching award (2011), and the Tevie H Miller Teaching Excellence Award, the Faculty of Law's highest teaching award (2008, 2015). While teaching at the University of Western Ontario, he received the University of Western Ontario's Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Legal Society's Professor of the Year, and the Edward G Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching. On several occasions, McLean's magazine named him as one of Canada's leading university teachers.

Malcolm Lavoie, BA (Hons) (UBC), MSc (LSE), BCL, LLB (McGill), LLM, SJD (Harvard), of the Alberta Bar, Associate Professor

Malcolm Lavoie is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. His research deals with property law, judicial remedies, federalism, and issues of Indigenous land tenure and jurisdiction. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the McGill Law Journal, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the UBC Law Review, and the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, he was a graduate student at Harvard Law School, where his work was supported by a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Weatherhead Center Graduate Research Fellowship, Fulbright Student Award, and a Project on the Foundations of Private Law Student Fellowship. He clerked for the Hon. Justice Frans Slatter of the Alberta Court of Appeal (2012-2013) and for the Hon. Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada (2013-2014).He is a past recipient of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT)Scholarly Paper Award and the Harvard Project on the Foundations of Private Law Writing Prize. His scholarship has also been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.

In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Lavoie is an active member of the Alberta Bar. He is Associate Counsel with Miller Thomson, LLP, a national business law firm. In his practice, he advises First Nations governments on a range of legal issues. He also consults on commercial litigation and regulatory matters. He has previously argued before the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Lavoie currently serves on the Alberta Judicial Council and the board of the Edmonton Bar Association.

J. Anthony VanDuzer, LLM (Columbia), LLB (Ottawa), BA (Queen's), of the Bar of Ontario, Professor and Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law

Professor VanDuzer has taught and practised extensively in the area of corporate and commercial law for more than 30 years. Following five years in private practice, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He teaches a variety of advanced business and international economic law subjects, for which he has received several teaching awards. He has taught in the University of Ottawa's Executive MBA program as well as at universities in the UK, Germany and New Zealand. Since 2003, he has been an Adjunct Research Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

Tony has written more than ninety published articles and papers on subjects ranging from pharmaceutical patents and health care to corporate law. He has also written several significant books on business law, including The Law of Partnerships and Corporations, 4th ed. (Concord: Irwin, 2018); and Merger Notification in Canada (with Albert Gourley), Toronto: CCH Canadian, 1994). His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada as well as provincial superior courts and courts of appeal.

Over the past decade, he has often been called on to advise Canadian government agencies and organizations on business and trade law issues. He completed a study for the Canadian Competition Bureau in 1999 on anti-competitive pricing practices. Many of his recommendations for reform of the Competition Act were included in amendments to the Act in 2009. His study for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the impact of the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services on the delivery of health, education, and social services in Canada was presented to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2005.

Tony has worked with international development agencies around the world, such as the Canadian International Development Agency and the World Bank, delivering workshops, drafting new laws, and providing other forms of technical assistance to foreign governments on issues related to business and trade. He played a key role in the drafting of Russia's foreign trade law and business registration law.