Michael Bridge is the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. He is a Barrister and Bencher of the Middle Temple and a Fellow of the British Academy. He previously held chairs in law at McGill University, the University of Nottingham, and University College London, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Laws. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds, Malaya, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and Mainz, and at Monash, Tulane and Bilgi (Istanbul) Universities. His research interests are in secured transactions and insolvency, international and domestic sale of goods, uniform law, private international law, comparative private law, and personal property law.