Interests
Commercial equity and corporate law, especially personal property, secured financing, and corporate and contract governance issues.
CV / Biography
Currently: Trustee, British Museum; Member of the Board of Governors, London Business School; Bencher of Middle Temple; Academic Member, South Square, Gray's Inn; Panel Member, PRIME Finance; Director and Fellow, International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; Fellow, European Law Institute; Fellow, Academia Europaea; Visiting appointments: Merralls Fellow (2016) and Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne; Cheng Yu Tong Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong; Distinguished Fellow, Australian Centre for Private Law, University of Queensland. Syndic, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment. Panelist on ALI’s Restatement Fourth, Property International Advisory Panel (2015-)
Previously: Treasurer, British Academy; Member of Council, British Academy; Member of Council, AHRC; President, Society of Legal Scholars; member, Judicial Appointments Committee Diversity Forum; member of Operating Board and chair of Audit Committee, Cambridge University Press; member, Advisory Council for the Study Group for a European Civil Code; consultant, UK Law Commission; member of working groups of the Bank of England Financial Markets Law Committee and the UK Company Law Review.
Publications
Books
Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (ed) (Hart Publishing, 2020)

Revolution and Evolution in Private Law (ed) (Hart Publishing, 2018)

Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies (ed) (CUP, 2017)

Gower's Principles of Modern Company Law (ed) (Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, 2016) 10th Edition

Sealy and Worthington's Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (OUP, 2016) 11th Edition
Palmer's Company Law -- Part 8A: Management of the Company (ed) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2014)

The Law of Personal Property (with M Bridge, L Gullifer, G McMeel) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2013)
