Simon Archer

Associate

Simon Archer is a member of the Koskie Minsky Pension and Benefits Practice Group. He was a Senior Research Associate with the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, and is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy at York University.

Simon is a former member of the Pension Executive Committee and member of the Securities Sub-Committee of the Ontario Bar Association. Simon has been Adjunct Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Department of Political Science, York University, and Adjunt Faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He served as Clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and researcher for the Law Commission of Canada. He has published and spoken in the areas of pension and benefits, financial institutions, capital markets and corporate governance.

Simon’s strengths includes a background in research and policy and a focus on investments and governance issues in pension plans. Recent work for clients involved policy and law reform submissions, advising a major professional association on innovative pension plan development, and advising the Board of Trustees of a national pension plan.

Experience

Publications

Law Reform and Legislative Update: A Review and Discussion of Bill 236 and Proposed Amendments to the PBSA and ITA” (OBA Institute, 2010).
"Nolan v. Kerry and Its Place in Pension Deliberation", online: The Court <http://www.thecourt.ca>.
“Class Proceedings as a Framework for Employee and Retiree Claims” (2005) 2(1) Can. Class Action Rev. 5.

“Third Party Liability and International Financial Institutions” in P Odell and C Willett (eds.) Global Governance and the Quest for Justice (Oxford: Hart, 2005).
"'On the Date of the Partial Wind-up': Monsanto v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services)" (2005) 41 Can. Bus. L.J. 413.
“Voluntary Governance or a Contradiction in Terms?” in D. Murphy & R. Shah, (eds.), Transparency, Accountability & Governance (London: Greenleaf, December 2003).

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy, York University
Member, Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers
Member, Canadian Bar Association

Contact Information

416-595-2267

416-204-2816 (Fax)

sarcher@kmlaw.ca

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Education

LL.B.,
Osgoode Hall Law School
M.A.,
University of Toronto
PhD (cand.),
Osgoode Hall, York University

Called to the Bar

Ontario, 2002