Shortlisted for the 2000 Walter Owen Book Prize
This best-selling text has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect industry changes since publication of the first edition in 1998. George Takach is one of Canada's leading practitioners and teachers in this new legal field. Computer Law 2/e brings together elements of many diverse branches of law, from intellectual property law to criminal and constitutional law, from laws concerning individual privacy, to laws governing domestic and international commerce. In an area of human enterprise where change rules and rules change at a lightning pace, Mr. Takach has brought a synthesis that will guide Canadian law and lawmakers along the information highway in the twenty-first century.

George S. Takach is a Toronto-based partner of McCarthy Tétrault where he is head of the High Tech Law Group. Mr. Takach practises business law, with an emphasis on software, computers, technology, and related matter. A recent survey conducted by Lexpert, a law directory publisher, ranked Mr. Takach among a handful of the leading lawyers in Canada in the Computer Law field.
Mr. Takach previously taught computer law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and currently (since 1990) teaches a course in Computers, Information and the Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He holds a B.A. (Hons.) in political economy from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in International Relations from Carleton University, and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto.

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• Short-listed, Walter Owen Book Prize