Personal Property Security Law

Roderick Wood teaches and publishes in the areas of commercial law, bankruptcy and insolvency law, and debtor-creditor law. He has co-authored books on secured transactions law in Canada and New Zealand, is the author of a treatise on Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law, and has written over two dozen articles in various law journals. He is the 2004 recipient of the Tevie H Miller Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Law, a 2005 recipient of the AC Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Alberta, and a 2006 recipient of a McCalla Professorship for his contribution to research in law at the University of Alberta. He is also a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law Faculty. Professor Wood has served as associate Dean at the Faculty of Law (1997–1999), as board member of the Alberta Law Reform Institute (1997–2001), and as commissioner of the Law Commission of Canada (2001–2006). Professor Wood was a member of the Canadian delegation at Diplomatic Conferences in Luxembourg in 2007 and Berlin in 2012 that produced international instruments governing the secured financing of rail assets and space assets, and was a member of the drafting committee that produced the text of the Luxembourg Protocol to the Unidroit Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment.

Catherine Walsh is a professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and was formerly a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick. Her principal teaching and research interests are secured transactions law and private international law with a focus on their comparative dimensions. In addition to publishing law review articles and commentary in these fields, she co-authored a national casebook on private international law and is the author of an annotated commentary on the New Brunswick Personal Property Security Act (PPSA). She has contributed to law reform initiatives in the field of secured transactions law at the provincial, national, and international levels. Her law reform contributions have ranged from advice on the implementation of PPSA-type legislation in particular jurisdictions, to reports on the interface between secured transactions law and intellectual property law, and between secured transactions law and private international law. Additional contributions include whether and how to implement international initiatives into national law. Her service contributions at the international level include assisting as an expert member of Canadian delegations to several intergovernmental organizations, most predominantly the Working Group on Secured Transactions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Professor Cuming joined the faculty at University of Saskatchewan College of Law in 1966. He focuses on national and international secured financing law, leasing law, debtor-creditor law and bankruptcy. He was the principal draftsperson for Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan in the preparation of Personal Property Security Acts, legislation which also acted as models for five other jurisdictions in Canada. Professor Cuming is also a technical advisor to World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and other international agencies in the area of commercial law reform of developing countries.
Ronald Cuming received a USSU Teaching Excellence Award in 1992–93 and the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award in 1998. Recent publications include various Personal Property Security Act handbooks for the western provinces, which he co-authored, as well as numerous articles and book chapters published in Canada and internationally.