Michael Bridge KC (Hon), FBA is Cassel Professor of Commercial Law Emeritus at the London School of Economics, a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Formerly, he held chairs at McGill University Montreal, the University of Nottingham and UCL. Furthermore, he was formerly a member of the Lando Commission on European Contract Law and played leading roles in the Trento Project on the Common Core of European Law and the European Civil Code Study Group. He is presently a Door tenant at 20 Essex Street Barristers>' Chambers; Bencher of the Middle Temple; member of the CISG Advisory Council; International Advisor to the Fourth US Restatement on Property Law.