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C. Ian Kyer

Headshot: C. Ian Kyer
B.A., M.A. (University of Waterloo), Ph.D., LL.B. (University of Toronto), of the Ontario Bar.

Dr. Kyer practices information technology law at RPM Technologies. He has been ranked as one of the leading 500 Lawyers in Canada by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. For several years he has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Internet and E-commerce Lawyers. He has also been rated twice as one of the top 25 IT lawyers in the world in Euromoney’s The Best of the Best. Furthermore, Dr. Kyer has been granted the highest rating, “AV”, by Martindale-Hubbell. He was the recipient of the University of Waterloo 2009 Arts Alumni Achievement Award.

While in law school, Dr. Kyer was the editor in chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He has written eight biographies for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and a number of articles and books in the information technology field.

 

Osgoode Society Books by C. Ian Kyer

Book cover coming soon
2015
A Thirty Years War: The Failed Public/Private Partnership that Spurred the Creation of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1891-1921
By: C. Ian Kyer
by Ian Kyer, Independent Historian. Published by Irwin Law. The thirty year franchise granted by the City of Toronto to the privately owned Toronto Railway…
Book Cover: Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963
2013
Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963
By: C. Ian Kyer
by C. Ian Kyer, Lawyer and Historian, published with Irwin Law, 2013. Ian Kyer holds a Ph.D. in history and was for many years a…
Book Cover: The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario, 1923-1957.
1987
The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario, 1923-1957.
By: C. Ian Kyer, Jerome Bickenbach
by C. Ian Kyer And Jerome Bickenbach. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1987. Disagreements over legal education have by no means been restricted to…

Chapters

‘Regina v Stewart: Is Information Property?’ in Eric Tucker, James Muir, Bruce Ziff, eds. Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and Irwin Law, 2012), pp. 353-392.

‘The David Fasken Estate: Estate Planning and Social History in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario’ in Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, John T. Saywell, eds. Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume Ten: A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 410 – 445.

‘Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario’ in G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips, eds. Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In Honour of R. C. B. Risk (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp. 335 – 358.

‘The Transformation of an Establishment Firm: From Beatty Blackstock to Faskens, 1902-1915,’ in C. Wilton, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law – Volume VII: Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective (Osgoode Society and UTP, 1996), pp. 161-206.

Oral Histories

2011
Ian Kyer
284 Pages

Computer law pioneer Ian Kyer discusses technology practice development, legal education, and Fasken Martineau’s technological evolution

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