Michael Bridge appointed as the Geoffrey Bartholomew Professor

Professor Michael Bridge

NUS Law congratulates Michael Bridge, who has been appointed as the Geoffrey Bartholomew Professor with effect from 1 July 2020.

Michael succeeds Jeffrey Pinsler who has served with distinction in the role since 2014. The professorship became available when Jeffrey generously asked that another colleague be given the opportunity to be considered for it.

Michael obtained his LLB and LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and became a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1975 and then Bencher in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014 and appointed Queen’s Counsel (Honorary) in 2017.

His academic career began at Leicester in 1971, followed by appointments at Leeds in 1974 and McGill in 1977 where he became Professor in 1987. Michael returned to the United Kingdom in 1988 as the Hind Professor of Commercial Law at the Nottingham. This was followed by an appointment as Professor of Commercial Law at UCL in 2001 before a move to the LSE in 2007 where he was subsequently appointed to the Cassel Professorship of Commercial Law in 2009. He is presently an Emeritus Professor of Law at LSE, Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Professor at NUS Law since 2013.

He has held various senior appointments throughout his career, including Executive Dean at UCL and Head of School at Nottingham, and he has held visiting professorships at leading universities around the world. Professionally, he has served as a consultant to Norton Rose and is a door tenant at 20 Essex Street Chambers.

His research interests span across a range of areas within the broad field of commercial law, including contracts, secured transactions, international and domestic sale of goods, private international law, comparative law, and personal property law. He revived the study of personal property law with his various books, the most important of which are the Law of Security and Title Based Financing and the Law of Personal Property. He is the General Editor of Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, a leading treatise in the field, and his works are cited by the highest courts in the Commonwealth.