Professor of Law and Hon. Frank H. Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation Emeritus
Tel.: 416-978-5792
Email: tony.duggan@utoronto.ca

Tony Duggan was appointed to the Faculty in 1999. Previously, he held the Henry Bournes Higgins Chair in Law at Monash University, Victoria, Australia and before that he was on the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne.  He was Associate Dean at the University of Toronto from 2002-2004 and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne from 1980-1983.  He held the Honourable Frank H. Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation at the University of Toronto from 2000 until his retirement in 2020. Prior to retiring, Professor Duggan taught Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy Law and Trusts. He has published widely in these areas and also in the areas of contract law, consumer credit and consumer protection. Professor Duggan was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Business Law Review from 2013-2022.

See also Professor Duggan's SSRN page.
Selected publications

Books

Australian Personal Property Securities Law (4th ed, LexisNexis Australia, 2024), pp i-li and 1-630 (hard cover and e-book), (3rd ed., LexisNexis Australia, 2021), pp i-xlviii and 1-592 (hard cover and e-book), (2nd ed., Lexis Nexis Australia, 2016, reprinted 2016, 2018 and 2020 (two times)), pp i-xlvii and 1-538 ( hard cover and e-book) (with David Brown), Australian Personal Property Securities Law (with David Brown) (LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney, 2012) (hard cover and e-book).

Secured Transactions in Personal Property: Cases, Text and Materials (8th ed.), (Toronto: Emond Publications, 2022) (with Mark Selick and Michael Burke).

The Ontario Personal Property Security Act Commentary and Analysis (3rd ed., Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2020) (with Jacob S. Ziegel and David L. Denomme).

Book Chapters

“Secured Transactions Law Reform in Developed Jurisdictions” in Louise Gullifer and Dora Neo (eds), Secured Transactions Law in Asia (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2021), 51-68.

“Recent Developments in Australian PPSA Case Law and their Relevance to other PPSA Jurisdictions” in John H. Farrar, Vai Io Lo and Bee Chen Goh, Scholarship, Education and Practice in Comparative Law: A Festschrift in Honour of Mary Hiscock (Springer, 2019) 7-38.

“Current Issues in Secured Transactions Law in Canada: An Ontario Perspective” in Louise Gullifer and Orkun Akseli (eds), Secured Transactions Law Reform: Principles, Policies and Practice (Bloomsbury: Hart Publishing, 2016), 95-114.

“Contracts, Fiduciaries and the Primacy of the Deal” in Elise Bant and Matthew Harding (eds), Exploring Private Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 275-297.

Recent Journal Articles

“True Leases and the PPSA: Royal Bank of Canada v. Cutler Forest Products Inc  (2024) 69 Canadian Business Law Journal  (forthcoming)

“In Memoriam: Tribute to Jacob Ziegel” (2024) 68 Canadian Business Law Journal  161-8.

“The Law of Recaption and the PPSA” (2023) 97 Australian Law Journal  264-277

“Hiring Agreements and the PPSA: Gold Valley Iron (in liq.) v. Ops Screening and Crushing Equipment  (2023) 50 Australian Business Law Review  388-397.

“Quinquagenaries” (2023) 46 Dalhousie Law Journal  379-401.

Curriculum Vitae
Research areas
Bankruptcy/Insolvency Law
Business Law
Equity and Trusts

Publications

See also Professor Duggan's SSRN page.