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Eugène Buttigieg (Editor) is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Law and
the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law with the theme ‘Rights and
Remedies in an Integrated European Market’ at the Law Faculty of the University of
Malta. He holds law degrees from the University of Malta (LL.D.), the University of
Exeter (LL.M. with distinction in European Legal Studies) and the University of London
(Ph.D. in Competition Law). He has published widely and is the editor of the book
Enforcing One’s Rights under EU Law (Gutenberg Press 2011) and Rights and Remedies
in a Liberalised and Competitive Internal Market (Gutenberg Press 2012) and author of
Competition Law: Safeguarding the Consumer Interest. A Comparative Analysis of US
Antitrust Law and EC Competition Law (Kluwer 2009) and Supplement 45 of the
International Encyclopaedia of Laws – Intellectual Property (Kluwer 2008) as well as the
author of chapters in, amongst others, Merger Control Worldwide (Cambridge University
Press 2005, 2nd edn 2012), Damage Caused by Genetically Modified Organisms (De
Gruyter 2010), Anti-Cartel Enforcement Worldwide (Cambridge University Press 2009),
Citizenship Policies in the New Europe (Amsterdam University Press 2007, revised 2nd
edn 2009), An Introduction to Maltese Financial Services Law (Allied Publications
2009), Guide to European Company Laws (Sweet & Maxwell 2008), Economic Loss
Caused by Genetically Modified Crops (Springer 2008), The Modernisation of EU
Competition Law Enforcement in the EU (Cambridge University Press 2004), The
Interface between European Union Energy, Environmental and Competition Law (Tartu
University Press 2012) (co-authored) and Competition Cases from the European Union
(Sweet & Maxwell 2008, 2nd edn 2010) (co-authored). He has written various articles on
competition and consumer law in inter alia the European Business Law Review, Journal
of Competition Law and Practice and Consumer Policy Review. He is a member of the
EUI’s EUDO-Citizenship network of experts and was a board member of the Malta
Resources Authority between 2001 and 2009 and a member of Malta's Copyright Board
from 1994 to 2005. He has acted as advisor to various regulatory bodies and government
ministries and companies. He is the co-founder and secretary-general of the Maltese
Association for European Law (AMSDE).
Youseph Farah LL.B. (Hebrew University), LL.M. (Essex University), Ph.D. (Essex
University) joined the School of Law of the University of Essex in 2005. He lectures on
contract law, international dispute resolution, and international commercial litigation. Dr
Farah is also very active in the field of business and human rights, where he has served as
a resource person advising NGOs, Parliaments, and the UK government on matters
relating to business and human rights, and in particular international investment law. Dr
Farah is also a member of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Essex. He
was twice a visiting Professor to Michigan State University, and a visiting Professor to
Lyon III. His research interests include international investment law, common law, ecommerce, investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration and international
commercial litigation. His professional career outside of academia includes advising
firms on matters relating to international trade and commercial law.
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Christopher Hodges is Head of the CMS Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems
at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford; Erasmus Professor of the
Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam; and Life Member of
Wolfson College, Oxford. His research covers all available dispute resolution systems,
with the aim of devising an integrated civil justice model for European States. His books
include Reform of Class and Representative Actions in European Legal Systems: A New
Approach to Collective Redress in Europe (Hart, 2008), European Regulation of
Consumer Product Safety (Oxford, 2005), Multi-Party Actions (Oxford, 2001), and
European Product Liability (1993). His Ph.D. was on European Consumer Product
Regulation (King’s College, London, 2003). He has advised numerous governments and
enterprises on law and policy. He is coordinator of the pan-EU Civil Justice Systems
Project, which comprises scholars from across the EU, and co-coordinator with Professor
Deborah Hensler of Stanford University of the Global Class Actions Project. He
graduated from New College, Oxford in 1976 and worked for 28 years in major City of
London law firms, attracting a reputation whilst a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna
(1990-2004) as one of Europe’s leading experts in product regulation, product liability
and class actions. He is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Working Group
on the Product Liability Directive, the Academic Advisory Panel on consumer law of the
UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and is a former Chair of the
International Bar Association’s Committee on product liability, unfair competition,
advertising and consumer affairs. He is a Board Member of the UK Research Integrity
Office (2008-), and has a special interest in health systems. He was Chairman of the
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (representing NHS community
pharmacists 2007-11), has chaired various Department of Health working groups, was
Vice-Chair of the Association of British Healthcare Industries (2004-8), and Chair of
EUCOMED’s Legal Affairs Committee (1995-2008). He is an accomplished singer and
conductor. After being a choral scholar at New College, Oxford he was a founder of the
internationally acclaimed choir The Sixteen, and has made many recordings. He has been
Chairman of Bampton Classical Opera since 2005.
Geraint Howells is Professor of Commercial Law and Head of the Law School at the
University of Manchester. He is also a barrister at Gough Square Chambers, London. He
has been President of the International Association of Consumer Law. He has also taught
at the Universities of Hull, Keele, Liverpool, Sheffield and Lancaster in the United
Kingdom and overseas he has visited the Universities of Tennessee, Würzburg, Münster,
Paris XI and Sydney. He has written widely on consumer law issues. His books include
Comparative Product Liability, Consumer Product Safety, Consumer Protection Law, EC
Consumer Law, Product Liability, European Fair Trading Law, Handbook of Research
on International Consumer Law and The Tobacco Challenge. He has also written
numerous articles and contributions to books. He has been editor of the Consumer Law
Journal, the Revue Européene de Droit de la Consommation, Yearbook of Consumer
Law, International Journal of Law and Management and European Business Law Library
and is currently editor of the markets and law series for Ashgate publishers. His work
often has an EU, international or comparative flavour. He is a member of the Acquis
Group and was a member of the European Consumer Law Group. He frequently acts as
consultant for organisations such as the European Commission, UK government and
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NGOs. He has recently drafted a report for the UK government on ‘Modernising and
Simplifying Consumer Contract Law’.
Udo Reifner, born 1948, studied sociology and law in Berlin and Marburg (Germany).
He is Professor of Commercial Law at Hamburg University and Research Director of the
independent Institute for Financial Services e.V. He conducts research especially on
credit and insolvency law. Among his more than 200 publications on bank law, financial
services, consumer protection, European Contract Law, social banking, bank and
insolvency law, sociology of law, history of law and legal theory, his book titles include:
The Money-Society (2010); Payment Protection Insurance (2010); Regulation concerning
Consumer Overindebtedness in the EU (2010); Private Pension Schemes; Financial
Literacy; Micro-Lending; Community Reinvestment (list of publications: www.iffhamburg.de/media.php?id=2174).
Christine Riefa is a Senior Lecturer specialising in consumer and information
technology law at Brunel University, London. She is an elected board member of the
International Association of Consumer Law and co-editor of the Journal of European
Consumer and Market Law, published by Springer. She was a Fulbright-EU scholar-inresidence at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the USA in 2010 and conducted
research on the protection of consumers-gamers in virtual environments such as Second
Life. Prior, the Brunel Research and Innovation Enterprise Fund financed some of her
research on online auctions which is the object of her forthcoming monograph (to be
published by Ashgate in 2012). Dr Riefa has acted as a consultant for a number of private
firms and policy makers in her field. She is currently working on a project funded by the
European Commission assessing the impact of Directive 2007/64/EC on payment
services in the internal market and on the application of Regulation 924/2009 on crossborder payments in the Community. In 2010 she was advising CARICOM (the Caribbean
Community) on policy matters concerning the development of a legal framework to
protect consumers in the Region engaging in electronic commerce. She is regularly
invited to speak at international conferences.
Klaus Tonner was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1947. After studying law in Frankfurt
am Main and Berlin, he was lecturer in law at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik
in Hamburg from 1972 to 1994. In 1980 he obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.) from the
University of Hamburg. In 1991 he completed his Habilitation at the University of
Bremen. In 1994 Prof Dr Tonner became the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for Private
Law and European Law of the Law Faculty of the University of Rostock. He was Vice
President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Reiserecht (German Society for Travel Law).
He is member of the board of the International Forum of Tour and Travel Advocats
(IFFTA) and co-editor of the legal journals Verbraucher und Recht and Reiserecht
aktuell. He has published on consumer law, in particular on travel law. Main
publications: Reiserecht in Europa (1992); Das Recht des Time-sharing (1997); Der
Reisevertrag (5th edn, 2007); Vertragsrecht – Kommentar (2010) (co-editor with Armin
Willingmann and Marina Tamm); Verbraucherrecht – Beratungshandbuch (2012) (coeditor with Marina Tamm).
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Christian Twigg-Flesner is Professor of Commercial Law, Head of the Law School and
Convenor of the Trade and Commercial Law Centre at the University of Hull in East
Yorkshire, England, and an Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple. He read law at the
University of Sheffield and was awarded his doctorate for research into the law on
manufacturers’ guarantees by the same University. Before joining Hull in 2004, he
worked at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University. He has written
widely on consumer law and European Contract Law. His publications include The
Europeanisation of Contract Law (Routledge, 2008) and he was co-editor of the EC
Consumer Law Compendium (Sellier, 2008; with Hans Schulte-Nölke and Martin Ebers).
His most recent book is A Cross-Border-Only Regulation for Consumer Transactions in
the EU (Springer, 2012). He is co-editor (Law) for the Journal of Consumer Policy and a
member of the Acquis Group. In addition to his scholarly work, he regularly assists the
UK Law Commission and the Department for Business with question of consumer law
reform.
Jonathon Watson LL.B. (Hons) (University of Liverpool), LL.M. (University of
Münster) is a Research Assistant at the Centre for European Private Law of the
University of Münster.
Chris Willett Ph.D. is Professor of Commercial Law and Director of Postgraduate
Research, University of Essex. He teaches, researches, publishes and engages in legal
policy development and training in contract, consumer and commercial law. Within the
consumer law field, his special areas of interest are quality of goods and services; unfair
terms and practices; services of general interest; and consumer protection and contract
law theory.