Prof. Siemens

Professor E. Edward Siemens, C.D., LL.B. ,LL.M

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

Prof. Siemens devotes his full time to legal research, writing, speaking, conducting seminars, and lecturing, and to international arbitrations both as an arbitral panelist or as a sole arbitrator. He has carried out research on corporate law at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, England; and at leading law institutions in Canada.

He is the author of the tremendously successful Directors' Liability in Canada published in 1994, the co-author of Directors' and Officers' Liability, a publication for the United States published in 1995, the author of Directors' Liability in Australia published in Sydney, Australia in 2001, and he has prepared a publication on Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom, and presently is completing a publication entitled Corporate Governance-Principles & Practices which will be available in an e-book format online and on CD.

Prof. Siemens has lectured extensively on various areas of the law, in Canada and in Europe, including lecturing to the legal profession, and is a Professor of Business Law at several universities in Europe lecturing at the Masters level. Most recently he was also a visiting professor in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Rostock, Germany.

He is the founder of u-e-lectures.com which presents his accredited MBA, EMBA, LL.M., and Juris Doctorus courses on Corporate Governance and on Business Law to various universities online. and which may be accessed by subscribers worldwide via the Internet. Currently, he is preparing a Masters level course on International Trade Law also for delivery Online.

Legal Career

Prof. Siemens began his legal career as an air force Judge Advocate in Ottawa, and after completing his law articles, entered private law practice in Canada. As the senior partner of his firm for some twenty years of practice, he has been counsel to numerous corporate clients, including local counsel to several Canadian chartered banks, trust companies, credit unions and foreign banks doing business in western Canada. As counsel, he has appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal of British Columbia, the Court of Queen's Bench in Alberta, and the lower courts in British Columbia and Ontario. He has also conducted arbitrations and he has held several corporate and non-profit directorships.

He did his undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; his graduate law studies at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and his post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London, in London, England.

Lecturing subject areas:

International Business Law
Business Law
International Business Environment
Comparative Law
Corporate Governance
Real Property Law
Wills and Estate Law
Professional Responsibility
Civil Procedure and Litigation
Military Law

Arbitral dispute areas:

International Trade
Sale & Lease Contracts
Intellectual Property
Admiralty
Aviation
Real Property
Insurance

Prof. Siemens may be contacted by e-mail at ees@u-e-lectures.com.