- HBA (Ivey Business School) 1968,
- LLB (U.W.O.) 1971,
- LLM (London) 1972,
- Barrister and Solicitor Law Society of Upper
Canada (1974),
- C.Arb. (1989),
- Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law,
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
- Visiting Scholar Stanford Law School (1987/88),
- Visiting Professor at the London School of
Economics and Political Science and holder of a Senior Research Fellowship at
the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (2002/03).
Principle teaching and research
interests are in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy and
Insolvency, Business and Commercial Law, Contracts and Debtor-Creditor Rights
and Sports Law.
Major publications: Falconbridge
on the Law of Mortgages (4th Ed.) Canada Law Book (1977); Commercial
Arbitration Law, Carswell (1982); Secured Transactions in Personal
Property in Canada, Carswell first edition 1979; (2nd Ed.)(1989),
Canadian Commercial Reorganisations: Preventing Bankruptcy, Canada Law Book
(1994) and Innovative Dispute Resolution: The Alternative!, Carswell
(1994), The Annotated Personal Property Security Act 2004. Editor,
Personal Property Security Act Cases (P.P.S.A.C.) 1979-present, Associate
Editor Ontario Reports 1980 -1982. Canadian Co-Reporter and special
consultant to American Law Institute’s project on Transnational Insolvency
in the three NAFTA countries.
Member of Canadian Bar Association;
American Academy of Commercial Finance Lawyers; Insolvency Institute of Canada,
Canadian Dispute Resolution Institute and National Sports Law Centre, Marquette
University Faculty of Law, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Professor McLaren has practical
experience as a commercial lawyer and is Counsel to MacKewn Winder Kirwin LLP.
He is a labour, commercial and sports arbitrator, and mediator.
Appointments include: International
Court of Arbitration for Sports {CAS} appointed as on site ad hoc arbitrator at
the Winter Olympics in Japan (1998), the Summer Olympics in Sydney (2000) and
Commonwealth Games in Manchester (2002); arbitrator for the International
Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims {ICHEIC}; Inquiries-Rugby Canada
(1999), Chair of the Independent International Review Commission on Doping
Control, United States Track and Field (USATF) (2000/01), Chairman of the ATP
Tennis Anti-Doping Tribunal (2002 - present), Co-chief arbitrator for the ADR
Sport RED system for Canada. Arbitrator for the British Columbia International
Commercial Arbitration Centre, Arbitrator for the American Arbitration
Association {AAA}, Arbitrator for the United States Anti-Doping Agency,
Arbitrator for the National Hockey League Players’ Association and its
sports agents.
