Pablo A Hernández González-Barreda is lecturer in law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain.
From the foreword: We in the United Kingdom think we know what beneficial ownership means, although the author is right in saying that we cannot explain it, and we think we know what it must have been intended to mean in tax treaties, but it required Pablo Hernandez from Spain to make us see all the contradictions that are involved and make sense of them by including interesting civil law comparisons. -- Dr John Avery Jones CBE