For many years a professor of law at the London School of Economics, Trevor Hartley is a member of the American Law Institute, the European Group for Private International Law, and the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Private International Law (UK Ministry of Justice). He worked closely with the UK negotiating team during the recast of the Brussels Regulation, and was a member of the UK delegation, and co-rapporteur, for the Hague Choice-of-Court Convention. He has published extensively in the fields of private international law and EU law.