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Peter Kissick

Adjunct Associate Professor

Overview

Peter Kissick is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Smith School of Business, Queen's University. An award-winning instructor and former Director of the Commerce Program, Peter also teaches in the Queen's Faculty of Law.

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Academic Area

  • Business Ethics

Interest Topics

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Ethics
  • Law

Faculty Details

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Full Bio

W. Peter Kissick is an Associate Professor, teaching Law and Ethics at the Smith School of Business. He is also a lecturer in the Queen's Faculty of Law.

Peter holds both an LL.B and an LL.M degree from Queen's University Faculty of Law. Professor Kissick has practiced in the field of business law since 1990, more specifically in the areas of securities law, banking, intellectual property and most recently electronic business and business start-ups. Since 1998, Peter has taught business law in the undergraduate Commerce and Masters level programs at Smith. He has also designed and taught the Commerce Program's core Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility course; he has also authored a significant number of Business Ethics cases.

Recently Peter has been actively involved in assisting students in Smith's Masters of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.

In the Faculty of Law, Peter has taught various courses, and has been heavily involved in Queen's Law's Certificate in Law Program, having been a Lead Instructor in Queen’s Law’s introductory course in law and course designer and instructor of the Corporate Law course in that program.

Peter was the founding Director of the Queen's Business Law Clinic, which he led from 2009 until 2015. Peter has received numerous faculty awards for his teaching in Commerce and Queen's Law, as well as several nominations for university-wide teaching awards at Queen's.

He is a past Director of the Queen's Commerce Program. Since his call to the Ontario Bar in 1990, Peter has practiced as an associate at the Toronto law firm Smith, Lyons, after which he joined the in-house legal department of The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Currently, in addition to his work at Smith, he has his own consultative business law practice in which he specializes in providing advice to smaller entities at various stages of their growth, and he has participated on the advisory boards of several companies and organizations. Peter Kissick is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Academic Degrees

Master of Laws (LL.M)
Faculty of Law/School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, Queen’s University (1998)

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
Queen’s University (1988)

Academic Experience

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
Associate Professor (1998 - Present)
Director, Undergraduate Program (2004-2007)

Publications

Cases Authored

Admissions Decisions at Northeastern University”, co-authored with Moira Jackson, Smith School of Business case #9-L07-5-002 (September 2007)

“Helping Hand”, co-authored with Moira Jackson, SSB case #9-L08-5-001 (January 2008)

“Yellow Ribbons”, SSB case #9-R09-5-002 (September 2009)

“AC Financial Inc”, SSB case (August 2010)

“Good Coffee Company”, SSB case used in Comm104 (February 2013)

“VetLab and Dr. Brylin’s Hire”, SSB case used for ICBC 2016 Ethics competition and in COMM104 (September 2015)

“Kevin Just and the Toronto Raptors”, SSB case used by Queen’s Commerce Law Association case competition (March 2016)

“Resuscitating Dancing Penguin’s Image”, SSB case used for ICBC 2017 Ethics competition (August 2016)

“EntreServe Ltd.: The Shotgun Clause Dilemma”, SSB case used for ICBC Ethics competition (July 2017)

“ZRH Digital Solutions Inc.: Ready for the Big Time?”, SSB case used by the Queen’s Commerce Law Association case competition (January 2018)

“Sandra Attley’s Endorsement Deal with Pegasus Canada Inc.” co-authored with Kate Rowbotham, SSB case used for ICBC Ethics competition (June 2018)

“TDS and the Cannabis Market”, SSB case used in COMM103 (October 2018)

“Protecting Elderly Consumers”, SSB case used in ICBC Ethics Competition (June 2019)

“Hiring the Manager, Client Relations at DGS”, co-authored with Christine Coulter, SSB case used for ICBC HR competition (October 2019)

Chapters in Book Authored

“An Introduction to Business Ethics”
“Law and Ethics”
“An Introduction to Stakeholder Analysis”
Also authored the bulk of the teaching materials accompanying text book.

Chapters authored in Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, 2nd edition – (Pearson/Prentice Hall: 2010): “Law and Morality”; “Corporate Structure and Shareholders”; “Sample Stakeholder Analysis”

Book Inclusions: The Law and Business Administration in Canada, 10th edition and 11th edition (Pearson/Prentice Hall: Toronto):  Authored “Contemporary Issues” (in law) pages throughout text and authored “companion website for 10th edition

Teaching

School of Business

1998 - Present: Queen’s Commerce - Commerce 381 – Annually teaching between 1 and 3 sections of a course in Introduction to Business Law to upper year Bachelor of Commerce students. Class (section) enrolment averages 50-60 students and the classes meet twice a week for a total of three hours. Methods used for teaching include lectures, class discussion, and group presentation and incorporates technology including Powerpoint slides, a course web site, electronic discussion board and e-mail.

1999 – 2005; 2011-Present: Queen’s Commerce - Commerce 382 – One term each academic year, teaching of a course in Advanced Business Law, to approximately 80 upper year Bachelor of Commerce students. The structure of the course and teaching methods are similar to those of the COMM381course, although the material presented is somewhat more challenging to the students.

2007-2013, 2016: Queen’s Commerce - Commerce 104 – Annually teaching three sections of this required 2nd year undergraduate business course - Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.  Class enrolment averages 65-70 students per section.  In 2007-2008, I substantially redesigned the course; the teaching methods featured were traditional lecture, class discussion and case-type methods of teaching.  I have authored 7 articles and cases used in this course as well as editing the course textbook.

2015-Present: Smith Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MEI883: Taught or co-taught “Innovation in Practice” lecturing on legal skills necessary for entrepreneurs.

2002 - 2005: Queen’s Executive MBA- MBUS988 - Teaching Business Law in the Queen’s School of Business Executive M.B.A. Programs - both in the Ottawa classroom and Nationally via videoconference; in class teaching incorporated many of the methods used in the undergraduate teaching, while the videoconference was used to deliver lectures and coordinate discussions to the National classes.  

QSB Guest Lecturer - Guest lecturer on business law and business ethics issues in several classes within the Queen’s Bachelor Commerce Program; and lecturing on business law in the Queen’s MBA Programs (QMBA, Queen’s Cornell MBA).

2005: Queen’s School of Business - Graduate Studies Teaching Seminar – Coordinated teaching course for QSB graduate students (PhD) and delivered several of the sessions.

Faculty of Law

2009-2015: Queen’s Law - Queen’s Business Law Clinic (Director): Created a clinical business law program and course in Queen’s Faculty of Law, whereby I supervise (currently 17) upper year Queen’s Law students on case work for local small businesses, entrepreneurs and not for profit organizations.  Acted as instructor, administrative director of the clinic and the review counsel for the students’ client work.

2013-2015: Lead Instructor, LAW201: Was lead and principal instructor and course administrator (and implemented the first course offering) of Queen’s Law course (“Introduction to Law in Canada”) offered to approximately 300 undergraduate students - a lecture course introducing legal concepts team taught by Queen’s Law Faculty.

2013-2020: Lecturer, LAW201.

2016-Present: LAW204: Course author for online and blended course called “Corporate Law” offered by Queen’s Law to non-law students.  Course instructor in Summer 2017, Winter 2018 and Fall 2019.

Awards

Teaching Awards

Law Students Society Teaching Award (2011)

Nominee, Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching, Queen’s University (2003, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2014)

Winner of Teaching Excellence Award, Queen’s Commerce Society (selected by graduating QSB Bachelor of Commerce class) (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2017)

Winner of Professor-Student Life Award as determined by graduating QSB Bachelor of Commerce class (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008)

Service

Professional Activities

2003-Present: Member of various Queen’s University and Smith School of Business committees, including: University Timetable Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Undergraduate Diversity Committee; Undergraduate and MBA Academic Progress Committees; Smith Academic Appeals Committee (member and Chair).

2004-Present: Volunteer service to Queen’s University and Smith School of Business including admissions and awards application review and attendance and participation (usually speaking or judging) at student events and conferences.

Pro bono community legal work: United Way Serving Frontenac Lennox & Addington; Literacy Kingston; KAMHA

2018-Present: (Volunteer) Review Counsel and Guest Lecturer, Queen’s Business Law Clinic

Professional Certifications

Called to the Bar of Ontario
1990

Professional Affiliations

Member in good standing, Law Society of Upper Canada