Richard H. McLaren is a Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. Professor McLaren has extensive practical experience as a commercial lawyer, mediator and arbitrator. He is Counsel to McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP law firm in London.
Professor McLaren joined the Faculty of Law in 1972 and was Associate Dean from 1979-82. His principle teaching research interests are in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracts, Debtor-Creditor Rights, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Commercial and
Business Law, and Sport and the Law. Major publications: Falconbridge on the Law of Mortgages (4th ed.); Commercial Arbitration Law; Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada (2nd ed.); Canadian Commercial Reorganizations: Avoiding Bankruptcy;The 2008 Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act; and both the Alberta and British Columbia Personal Property Security Acts; and Innovative Dispute Resolution: The Alternative! He is the Editor of Personal Property Security Act Cases (P.P.S.A.C.). He was a Canadian Co-Reporter and special consultant to the American Law Institute's Project on Transnational Insolvency in the three NAFTA countries. He is one of three Canadian academics who are members of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and is the only one who is a member of the American Academy of Commercial Finance Lawyers. Professor McLaren has practical experience as a commercial lawyer, a labour and commercial arbitrator, mediator and professional sports arbitrator.
Appointments include: Higher Board of the Euro-Arab Arbitration System; International Court of Arbitration for Sport (which oversees the International Olympic Committee) for whom he was an on-site arbitrator at the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics in Nagano and Torino respectively; the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Athens, and Beijing respectively; and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.Our Director
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