Janet Walker

Walker is an author and scholar in private international law and procedure. She has authored more than 60 peer reviewed articles, as well as contributing to a number of text books and other works.[14] She is the author of the current edition of Canadian Conflict of Laws (LexisNexis, 6th edition 2005+), which has been cited more than 400 times in Canadian courts and described as "the most cited private law work in Canadian jurisprudence",[5] and was co-author of the previous edition. She is also the author of the Conflict of Laws volume of Halsbury's Laws of Canada (LexisNexis Canada, 1st issue and subsequent issues 2006; 2011; 2016; 2020), General Editor of The Civil Litigation Process (6th-9th eds, Emond Montgomery, 2005; 2010; 2015; 2020), General Editor of Class Actions in Canada (1st and 2nd eds, Emond, 2013, 2018), Co-editor of Private International Law in Common Law Canada (3rd-5th eds, Emond Montgomery, 2010; 2016; 2023), co-author of Civil Litigation (Irwin, 2010) and co-editor of Common Law, Civil Law and the Future of Categories (LexisNexis, 2010).[15] Walker is an Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration.

Walker is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). She is a member at Toronto Arbitration Chambers, a door tenant at Atkin Chambers, London, and member at Sydney Arbitration Chambers. She is a past Chair of the ICC Canada, and serves as a member of the ICC Commission,[16] Honorary Secretary General of the International Association of Procedural Law, an Executive Board Member of CIArb Canada, and as a Board Member at the International Construction Law Association. She was the founding chair of the Toronto Chapter of CIArb, the Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto, (now the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society "TCAS"),[17][15] a member of Arbitralwomen, and a Freeman of the City of London at the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators.

Walker's arbitration matters include disputes relating to construction, distribution agreements, licenses, franchises, agricultural manufacturing, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, heavy equipment sales, employment, manufacturing supply agreements, and pharmaceuticals. She has served as sole arbitrator, chair and co-arbitrator in arbitration under the institutional rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC),[18] Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR),[19] Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) as well as ad hoc arbitrations. She is a member of several institutional panels including those of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC),Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Presidential Panel, Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC),[20] Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board International (KCAB), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC),[21][22] Shenzhen Commission on International Arbitration (SCIA), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and of the former Canadian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce.[5] She is also a Recommended Arbitrator at the Ukrainian Chamber of International Commercial Arbitration (UCICA), a panel member of the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM) as well as a member of the Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto, and the ILA Committee on International Commercial Arbitration. Walker also served as a member of the organising committee of ICCA Sydney 2018 and is Founder and Co-Chair of CanArbWeek.

For more than twenty years, Janet consulted and provided expert evidence on questions of jurisdiction, judgments and applicable law in 60+ crossborder disputes. She has also offered expert assistance to members of the profession in the public and private sectors in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.[8]

Walker was the common law advisor to the Federal Courts (Canada) Rules Committee from 2006 to 2015. She is Secretary General of the International Association of Procedural Law, and is a former president of the Canadian branch of the International Law Association.[5] Walker was the CIArb Academic Advisor in 2014-2015[23] and she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg as well as the Global Advisory Board, New York International Arbitration Center.

She has also served as a member on a wide variety of international and Canadian task forces and working groups including:

• Unidroit/American Law Institute Project on Transnational Principles and Rules of Procedure;
• Uniform Law Conference of Canada National Class Action Reform Project;
• International Bar Association Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Collective Redress;
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section Working Group on Protocols for Parallel Class Actions;
• International Law Association Committee on International Arbitration;
• Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society Commercial Arbitration Act Reform Working Group; and
• Uniform Law Conference of Canada - International Arbitration Legislation Project, Advisory Board.[12]