Mark Gillen has been a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria since 1987. He has taught Securities Regulation, Business Associations, Trusts, Tax, Competition Law, Contracts, and Historical Foundations of the Common Law. His primary areas of research are securities law, trusts and corporate law. He has been a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok every year except one since 1999.
He is the author of Securities Regulation in Canada, 4th ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2019) and of Corporations and Partnerships: Canada (Kluwer, 1992 with many subsequent revisions to 2018). He is co-author with Donovan Waters and Lionel Smith of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 5th ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2021). He is also a co-author of Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Challenges, 2d ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2018) and of The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach, 4th ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2021).