Rate My Professor Mohamed Khimji

Mohamed F. Khimji serves as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Western University. He holds an LLB from the University of Bristol and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Born and raised in Tanzania as a first-generation university graduate, Khimji previously served as the David Allgood Professor in Business Law at Queen’s University, where he was Director of the Business Law Program, Associate Dean (Academic Policy), and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies). He earlier held the Stephen Dattels Chair in Corporate Finance Law at Western University and taught at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law. Khimji has also served as an Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Valencia.

His research focuses on corporate finance law, secured transactions, and related areas of business law. Selected publications include “Registry Abuses in PPS Regimes – A Comparative Analysis” (2025) in the Canadian Business Law Journal, “The Role of Knowledge in Secured Financing Priority Disputes – Three Recent Cases” (2021) in the Banking and Finance Law Review, “Oppression – Reducing Canadian Corporate Law to a Muddy Default” (2016) in the Ottawa Law Review (with Jon Viner), and “Piercing the Corporate Veil in the Canadian Common Law Courts – An Empirical Study” (2015) in the Queen’s Law Journal (with Christopher C. Nicholls). He is co-author and co-editor of Business Organizations: Practice, Theory, and Emerging Challenges (2nd ed., Emond, 2017). Khimji has received the Stanley M. Corbett Award for Excellence in Teaching from Queen’s University Faculty of Law and has held leadership roles on boards including the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation and Small World Music.