David Lloyd Johnston
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David Lloyd Johnston CC, AB, LL.B born June 28, 1941) is a Canadian academic and author. He is the former Principal of McGill University and the current President of the University of Waterloo.
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, he received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1963, a LL.B. from Cambridge University in 1965 and a LL.B. from Queen's University in 1966.
In 1966, he was appointed an Assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. In 1968, he moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. In 1974, he became Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. In 1979 he became the 14th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, serving until 1994 when he returned to the Faculty of Law as a professor. In 1999 he was appointed the fifth President of the University of Waterloo.
In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1997.
[edit] Selected books
- Computers and Law (1968)
- Canadian Securities Regulation (1977, 3rd ed. 2002)
- Canadian Companies and The Stock Exchanges (1979)
- Business Associations (1983, 3rd ed. 1994)
- If Quebec Goes... The Real Cost of Separation (1995)
- Getting Canada On-line: Understanding the Information Highway (1995)
- Cyberlaw (1997)
- Securities Regulations (1999)
- Communications Law in Canada (2000)
| Preceded by: Robert Edward Bell |
Principals of McGill University 1979–1994 |
Succeeded by: Bernard Shapiro |
Categories: 1941 births | Living people | Alumni of the University of Cambridge | Canadian legal writers | Canadian university and college faculty deans | Companions of the Order of Canada | Harvard University alumni | People from Waterloo Region, Ontario | Presidents of the University of Waterloo | Principals of McGill University | Queen's University alumni | Queen's University faculty | People from Greater Sudbury | University of Toronto faculty | University of Western Ontario faculty
