Solène Rowan is a Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. She specialises in contract, tort, commercial law, and comparative law and is the author of the award-winning monograph, Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Comparative Analysis of the Protection of Performance (2012), which won the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (first prize) and the Inner Temple New Author's Book Prize for Outstanding Authorship (runner-up). She is a non-practising solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.