Hiroo Sono Editor

Mindy Chen-Wishart is Dean, and Professor at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of Merton College. She holds a fractional Professorship at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University. She is author of Contract Law (6th ed), and of numerous articles on the theory, doctrine and comparative law of contract. She is an Editor of Chitty on Contracts (34th ed, forthcoming), is a member of the Advisory Group on A Restatement of the English Law of Contract, and has lectured to the Judicial College of England and Wales. Hiroo Sono is Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hokkaido University. He received an LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1990. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of contract law, transnational commercial law, and unification of law. He is a member of the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) and is also involved in various projects on unification and harmonization of private law at UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT, particularly in the field of international commercial contracts and secured transactions. Stefan Vogenauer, prior to his current position was a Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (2002-3); as well as Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford (2003-15). He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of legal history, European and comparative private law, transnational commercial law and legal method.