James J Fawcett Author

James J. Fawcett has taught at the Universities of Bristol, the National University of Singapore and the University of Leicester before joining the University of Nottingham in 1995. He was a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Leicester. He is the Director of Research at the School of Law, the University of Nottingham. He has also taught at the Hague Academy of International Law, where he was a Director of Studies in 1988 and gave lectures in 1993. His area of expertise is that of private international law, on which he has written numerous books and articles. He is the general editor of the Oxford Series in Private International Law, which has a list of more than twenty titles. Paul Torremans is Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Nottingham. His areas of expertise are Intellectual Property Law and Private International Law. He was a member of the Department of Private International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghent, Belgium until 2008. He is a member of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) and chairman of its British branch BLACA. He has acted as an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the European Commission.