Tom Telfer, Western University
Faculty of Law
Professor
London, Ontario
ttelfer@uwo.ca
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(519) 661-2111 ext. 88379
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Professor Telfer joined the Faculty in 2002 from the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law where he taught for eight years. He was a Visiting Professor to the Western Law Faculty in 2000. He has also been a Visitor at the University of Toronto, Victoria University of Wellington and most recently...
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Professor Telfer joined the Faculty in 2002 from the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law where he taught for eight years. He was a Visiting Professor to the Western Law Faculty in 2000. He has also been a Visitor at the University of Toronto, Victoria University of Wellington and most recently the University of Auckland. Professor Telfer's research and teaching interests include bankruptcy law, commercial law, international sales and legal history.
He has written a number of articles on insolvency law, secured transactions and consumer law, and has presented papers at major conferences in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He is the co-editor of International Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (440 pages) and is a co-author of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Texts and Materials, 1st ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2003) (677 pp) and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Texts and Materials, 2nd ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2009 (844 pp).
In Auckland, he was an active participant in the work of the New Zealand Research Centre for Business Law and the Legal Research Foundation as the editor in chief of the New Zealand Law Review. Professor Telfer provided expert advice on insolvency law reform to the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development and was for several years the sole academic member of the New Zealand Law Society Joint Insolvency Committee.
In Canada he serves on the editorial Board of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law and is the Specialist Editor in Insolvency Law for the Canadian Business Law Journal (CBLJ). He also serves as the Book Review Editor for the CBLJ.
Professor Telfer has been active on the law reform front. He is the author of two reports for the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. The first considers provincial exemption law while the second reviews the provisions of the federal Interest Act. He has participated in two written submissions to Parliament on the issue of insolvency reform. In May 2003, he appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, 37th Parliament, 2nd Session as part of a joint academic submission on insolvency reform.
Professor Telfer is currently working on a monograph that will examine the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law from an historical perspective.
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He has written a number of articles on insolvency law, secured transactions and consumer law, and has presented papers at major conferences in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He is the co-editor of International Perspectives on Consumers' Access to Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (440 pages) and is a co-author of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Texts and Materials, 1st ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2003) (677 pp) and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Texts and Materials, 2nd ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2009 (844 pp).
In Auckland, he was an active participant in the work of the New Zealand Research Centre for Business Law and the Legal Research Foundation as the editor in chief of the New Zealand Law Review. Professor Telfer provided expert advice on insolvency law reform to the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development and was for several years the sole academic member of the New Zealand Law Society Joint Insolvency Committee.
In Canada he serves on the editorial Board of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law and is the Specialist Editor in Insolvency Law for the Canadian Business Law Journal (CBLJ). He also serves as the Book Review Editor for the CBLJ.
Professor Telfer has been active on the law reform front. He is the author of two reports for the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. The first considers provincial exemption law while the second reviews the provisions of the federal Interest Act. He has participated in two written submissions to Parliament on the issue of insolvency reform. In May 2003, he appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, 37th Parliament, 2nd Session as part of a joint academic submission on insolvency reform.
Professor Telfer is currently working on a monograph that will examine the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law from an historical perspective.
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