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Biography

Catherine Walsh teaches and writes principally in the areas of secured transactions and private international law. Formerly a professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick, her move to 91社区 in July 2001 reflects her strong interest in the comparative and international dimensions of these subjects.

She has a long standing commitment to law reform, and has been actively involved in a number of national and international reform initiatives, including participating as a member of the Canadian delegation to Working Group VI of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in the development of a series of multilateral legal instruments in secured transactions law.

She is the co-author, with Ronald Cuming (Saskatchewan) and Roderick Wood (Alberta), of聽Personal Property Security Law聽(Irwin Law, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2012). She has been a contributing co-author from the outset of Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text and Materials, the 4th edition of which was published by Emond-Montgomery in 2016.

Before commencing her law studies, Catherine Walsh worked as a CUSO volunteer in Ghana, an experience that contributed to her subsequent interest in comparative and international private law.

Education

B.C.L. (Oxford) 1979

LL.B. (UNB) 1978

B.A. (Dalhousie) 1972

Employment

Full Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2001-

Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2003-2005

Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, 1994-2001 (Assoc. Prof 1986-1994; Assist. Prof. 1981-1986)

Counsel, Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales, 1999-2002

Associate Lawyer, McKelvey Macaulay Machum (now Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales), Saint John, 1980-1981

Law Clerk to the Chief Justice, New Brunswick Court of Appeal, 1979-1980

Recent Publications

鈥淭he Role of Party Autonomy in Determining the Third-Party Effects of Assignments: Of 鈥淪ecret Laws鈥� and 鈥淪ecret Liens鈥� (2018) 81 Law and Contemporary Problems 181

"General Jurisdiction over Corporate Defendants under the CJPTA: Consistent with International Standards?"聽(2018) 55 Osgoode Hall LJ 163听

聽鈥淎 Transnational Consensus on Secured Transactions Law? The 2016 UNCITRAL Model Law鈥� in Transnational Commercial and Consumer Law: Current Trends in International Business Law (Springer: 2018) (chap. 3)

鈥淭he law applicable to the third-party effects of an assignment of receivables: whither the EU?鈥� (2017) 22 Uniform L Rev 781

鈥淧roposals for Changes to the Canadian Personal Property Security Acts鈥� (2017) 59 C.B.L.J. 145聽(co-authored with Ronald Cuming, Tamara Buckwold, Anthony Duggan, Roderick Wood and Clayton Bangsund)

聽鈥溾�楩unctional Formalism' in the Treatment of Leases in Secured Transactions Law: Comparative Lessons from the Canadian experience鈥� in S. Bazinas & O. Akseli, eds, International and Comparative Secured Transactions Law: Essays in honour of Roderick Macdonald (Oxford: Hart, 2017) 25

鈥淭ransplanting Article 9: The Canadian PPSA Experience鈥� in Louise Gullifer & Orkun Akseli, eds. Secured Transactions Law Reform: Principles, Policies and Practice (Oxford: Hart, 2016) chap. 2)

Areas of Interest

Secured Transactions Law, Private International Law, International Business Law