Catherine Walsh

Professor Walsh joined the McGill University Faculty of Law in 2001. >From 1981 to 2001, she was a member of the Law Faculty of the University of New Brunswick. Her principal teaching and research interests are in secured transactions law, comparative commercial law, and private international law. Professor Walsh is a member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, a founding member of the Canadian Conference on Personal Property Security Law, and a former counsel to the Atlantic law firm Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales.

Professor Walsh is the author of numerous reports, articles and book chapters on secured transactions law. Her handbook on the New Brunswick Personal Property Act grew out of her work as project director for the implementation of the New Brunswick PPSA and its innovative electronic registration system. She is the co-author of a law reform study on security interests in intellectual property and the author or co-author of a variety of reform reports for the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. Currently, Professor Walsh is a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group charged with the preparation of a Secured Transactions Legislative Guide. Formerly she was a delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group that produced the UN Receivables Convention. She has played an advisory or consultative role on a number of other secured transactions reform initiatives outside Canada and co-authored with Professor Cuming a guide on secured transactions registration systems for the Asian Development Bank.