Robert Bradgate read law at Cambridge and entered legal practice in 1980, specializing in Commercial Law and Litigation. He began lecturing in 1984 and is now Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Sheffield. Christian Twigg-Flesner was born and educated in Germany. He is currently a lecturer in law at Nottingham Trent University but will be moving to a new lectureship at the University of Sheffield in August 2002.