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Jason Neyers

Professor

Law

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  • Professor
    Law

BIO

Jason Neyers is a Professor of Law at Western University Canada. He has published in leading law journals in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore and is also the co-editor/co-author of 18 books on private law, including Fridman’s The Law of Torts in Canada, and Fridman’s The Law of Contracts in Canada. His work has been cited by the Supreme Courts of Canada, the United Kingdom, and of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, and numerous appellate and first instance courts across the Commonwealth. Professor Neyers has been a visiting scholar at Melbourne Law School, Sydney Law School and the Auckland University of Technology.  He is the moderator of the Obligations Discussion Group (ODG), which is an international mailing list devoted to all aspects of the law of obligations and is a founding member of Western University’s Tort Law Research Group. In 2019, he was named the Jay McLeod Professor of the Year by Western’s Student Legal Society and has been selected to the USC Teaching Honour Roll on several occasions. Professor Neyers was named Western Law’s Faculty Scholar in 2015 (given to honour outstanding scholarly achievements) and has been the Cassels Brock LLP Faculty Fellow in Contract Law. Prior to taking up his academic appointment he was a law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.