Douglas F. Harrison
ARBITRATOR | MEDIATOR | COUNSEL
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member of the Law Society of Ontario
ARBITRATOR | MEDIATOR | COUNSEL
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member of the Law Society of Ontario
Douglas F. Harrison is an arbitrator of commercial disputes, both domestic and international. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is a member of the CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals (as both an arbitrator and a mediator), the panel of arbitrators of ICDR Canada, and the rosters of a number of other arbitral institutions including the London Court of International Arbitration, ICC Canada, and the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.
Douglas F. Harrison not only mediates business disputes but his recent mediations also include environmental disputes, product liability claims and defamation actions. He completed the Harvard Law School Executive Education course, Mediating Disputes.
He also acts as legal counsel in select matters, including designing arbitral procedures, enforcing arbitral awards and opinion work.
Services are provided through Harrison ADR Professional Corporation.
Mr. Harrison brings to his arbitration and mediation practice over 30 years of experience as a litigator with Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto, conducting a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice for clients from around the world. He was also Vice-Chair of the firm's national Claims & Risk Management Committee for several years and a member of the firm's national Professional & Ethics Committee.
Mr. Harrison's legal expertise spans a wide range of corporate and commercial disputes and topics, and also includes environmental law, product liability, defamation, professional liability, insolvency and directors and officers insurance. He handled numerous arbitral mandates as counsel, and was also involved in the enforcement of international commercial and investor-state arbitral awards.
His industry expertise includes mining, aerospace, chemicals, financial services, food processing, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, logistics, manufacturing and media.
Best Lawyers in Canada - 2021 (International Arbitration, Corporate & Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Law and Class Action Litigation).
Acritas Star - independently rated lawyer, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Mr. Harrison is internationally recognized as an expert in global product liability law and litigation by Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Barrister & Solicitor, Law Society of Ontario (called in 1988)
LL.B., University of Toronto, 1985
B.A., Political Studies, Queen's University, 1982
ADR Institute of Canada
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals (Global, Product Liability, Pro Bono)
ICC Canada Arbitration Committee (Executive)
ICDR Canada
Institute for Transnational Arbitration
International Arbitration Institute
International Council for Commercial Arbitration
London Court of International Arbitration
Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (Executive, Education & Programming)
University of Toronto, University Tribunal (Co-Chair)
Mr. Harrison is also a Vice-Chair of the International Mediation Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and volunteers as an arbitrator for the Vis Moot, the Virtual Vis East Moot and various Vis Pre-Moots.
State Instrumentalities - Piercing the Corporate Veil - Canada, in Enforcing Arbitral Awards Against States, IAI Series on International Arbitration No. 12, forthcoming
Removing an Arbitrator for Incapacity or Undue Delay, Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration, vol. 1, 2019 (excerpted in New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020) https://bit.ly/3hE2TDN
The Law of Product Warnings and Recalls in Canada, 2nd ed., LexisNexis Canada, 2019, with Alex Colangelo
Mr. Harrison is a contributor to The Lawyer's Daily, an online publication of LexisNexis Canada - see his recent article about the White Paper on arbitration as an effective remedy for human rights abuses at sea: https://bit.ly/3hSeiz6
Virtual Arbitrations: Experience to Date & What the Future Holds, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, Virtual Annual Meeting, June 2020
Thinking Big After the Singapore Convention: The Growing Promise of Cross-Border Mediation, American Bar Association, Section of International Law, Virtual Annual Meeting, May 2020
ADR Advocacy: Advanced Techniques, The Advocates' Society, Toronto, November 2019
Piercing the Corporate Veil in Domestic Law: A Comparative Approach, International Arbitration Institute, Enforcing Arbitral Awards Against States, Paris, October 2018
Photography 3.0: Speech, Privacy and the New Normal, Union Internationale des Avocats, 61st Congress, Toronto, October 2017
Harrison ADR Professional Corporation
Richmond-Adelaide Centre
120 Adelaide Street West, Suite 420
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5H 1T1
dharrison@harrisonadr.com