11/29/2004 3:03:46 PM
November 29, 2004 – Bill Kosar is the new International Business instructor at College of the North Atlantic’s Burin campus. But the lawyer-turned-teacher is still quite busy in the international world of law and publishing.
Kosar holds a Master of Laws degree in European Management and Employment Law from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, has published and spoken globally on international business and foreign investment law, construction law and currency laws, and authored the first published article in the English language on the then New Hungarian Law on Economic Associations in 1996.
Most recently Kosar was approached by publishers McGraw Hill Ryerson to write the study guide for a new legal text book. The 275 page companion to Willes & Willes’, Essentials of Canadian Business Law is a layperson’s version of the text, says Kosar.
“It’s common for study guides to accompany such texts – so students may understand the content in ‘plain English’ without legalese,” he says.
“This guide is… directed at business students, not law students, and therefore bypasses many of the theoretical concepts and jargon with which first-year law students are familiar.”
This is the first time Kosar has written a study guide and he is thrilled to have been asked to do so. He had been in touch with the publishing company initially to query their interest in his own book (currently nearing completion), when they offered him this project. He made the study guide first priority and now that it has been completed he will continue on with his own book entitled Cases and Materials in International Business and Trade Law as Applied and Interpreted in Canada.
He managed to write much of the study guide while preparing to move and actually moving to Newfoundland from Ontario.
“I wrote two or three chapters during a weekend when I first moved to the province, while I was staying in residence at Burin campus,” says Kosar.
He found the atmosphere lent to the creativity, energy and productivity he needed to write the book.
“It was very relaxing; someone took me for a drive around the boot (on the Burin peninsula), I had a bite to eat and still had time for several hours of writing,” says Kosar.
He says this wouldn’t have been possible in his former life.
“Working in Toronto meant a two-three hour drive getting to and from work. Now I can enjoy teaching at CNA and still devote some time to other things.”
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