Lionel Smith

Lionel Smith, B.Sc. (Toronto) 1986, LL.B. (Western) 1989, LL.M. (Cantab.) 1990, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1995, LL.B. (Montréal) 2006, is James McGill Professor of Law and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre of Private and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He is the author of The Law of Tracing (OUP, 1997), a co-author of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 3rd ed. (Carswell, 2005), and a co-author and the English reporter of Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (CUP, 2005; reprinted in paperback, 2009). He has also written numerous articles, book chapters, notes and reviews, and his scholarship has been relied upon by the Supreme Court of Canada, the High Court of Australia, and the House of Lords. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and the Bar of Alberta.