Takis Tridimas is the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking aw and head of the International Financial Law Unit of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-editor of the Yearbook of European Law. He is a Barrister (Middle Temple) and a qualified Greek advocate. In 2003 he was senior legal adviser to the EU Presidency and chairman of the Committee for the Drafting of the Treaty of Accession to the EU by which ten new States joined the European Union. He is also visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges.