Elaine B. Willis holds degrees from Mount Allison University (BA), Dalhousie University (DPA), and Queen's University (MPA).

Ms. Willis has a variety of experience in the broader practice of industrial relations, including serving as a mediator for the Ontario Crown Employees' Grievance Settlement Board. She also provides research services to the Ontario Police Arbitration Commission and, formerly, to the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.

In collaboration with K. Banting, M. Hawes, and R. Simeon, Ms. Willis organized the Canada-U.S. Project, a major multi-year, multi-disciplinary research program funded by the Donner Canada Foundation, and focused on public policy and political agendas in Canada and the United States. Ms. Willis has published work in the areas of public policy and industrial relations, including the volume Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States, which she edited in 1991, the volume Policy Choices: Political Agendas in Canada and the United States ,( co-edited with K. Banting, M. Hawes, and R. Simeon), also published in 1991, and "Democracy and Performance: Governance in Canada and the United States" (co-authored with R. Simeon) which appeared in Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997).

From 1993 through 2003, Ms. Willis was co-editor (with G. Simmons, K. Swan, and D. Carter) of Labour Arbitration Cases. During the 1990s through the mid-2000s, she was the editor of Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (CLAS). Since 2004, she has been the editor of Labour Arbitration Cases.

She was the co-author of Labour Arbitration: The Year in Review (published by Canada Law Book), from 2005-2007, and is currently the co-author of the annual Willis & Winkler on Leading Labour Cases (Thomson-Reuters).

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Willis & Winkler on Leading Labour Cases 2022, Softbound book

Willis & Winkler on Leading Labour Cases 2022, Softbound book