Ian F. Fletcher

Year and place of birth:

1944. Wakefield, U.K.

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.

Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email clerks@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com

Degrees and awards:

1993 LL.D. (Cambridge University) (based on books and other publications in

Insolvency Law, Conflict of Laws and European Community Law).

1979 Ph.D. (Cambridge University) (based on published book, Law of Bankruptcy).

1971 Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn)

1969 M.A. (Cambridge University).

1967 M.C.L. (Master of Civil Law), (Tulane University); Graduate Fellowship at
Tulane Law School.

1966 LL.M. (Cambridge University).

1965 B.A. (Cambridge University).

1962 Open State Scholarship; Open Exhibition in Classics for Law (St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge); Rebecca Flower Squire Scholarship (Cambridge University).

Present positions:

Professor of International Commercial Law, University College London (UCL), since January 2001.

Previous academic positions:

1994-2000 Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

1991-2000 Professor of Commercial Law and Head of Insolvency Law Unit, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

1994 and 1998 Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin (Spring Semester).

1986-90 Professor of Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Personal Chair).

1985-88 Head of Department of Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

1983-86 Reader in Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

1978-83 Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

1974, 1975 and 1980 Visiting Professor in European Community Law, Tulane University Summer School, (Grenoble).

1969-78 Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

1967-69 Assistant Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Other positions; Professional organisations; Consultancy:

2003 - Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn

1999 - Barrister in part-time practice, 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn

2002 - Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy

1997 - Member, American Law Institute

1995 - 2001, Overseas Member, National Bankruptcy Conference (U.S.A.).

1994 - Member, Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; European Insolvency Practitioners’ Association; INSOL International.

1986-96 - Convener of Conflict of Laws Subject Section, Society of Public Teachers of Law.

1987-91 - Chairman, United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law.

1990 - General Reporter for the topic “Cross-Border Insolvency” at XIII International Congress of Comparative Law (Montreal).

1972-75 - Member of Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education.

Teaching and examining:

Current: London LL.M. courses in Corporate Insolvency; International Commercial Litigation (formerly titled as Commercial Conflict of Laws); International Business Transactions II (Substantive Law); International and Comparative Insolvency Law.

Research supervision (Ph.D. candidates) in Insolvency Law; Conflict of Laws.

Previous: Lectures, seminars and tutorials in Conflict of Laws; European Community Law; Insolvency Law; Commercial Law; Roman Law; Civil and Comparative Law; European Convention on Human Rights; European Company Law; Contract; English Legal System.

Research supervision (Masters degree candidates) in: Insolvency Law; European Community Law; European Company Law.

Internal examining in all subjects taught, and External Examiner for LL.B. or taught LL.M.
at Universities of: East Anglia, Exeter, Manchester, London (LSE,UCL,KCL), Nottingham Trent, and Hong Kong.

External Examiner for Ph.D. or LL.M./M.Phil. by thesis at Universities of: Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, Hong Kong, Manchester, Melbourne, Nottingham, Leicester, London (L.S.E.), and The European University Institute (Florence).

Lectures or Faculty Seminars delivered by invitation at other Universities including: Caen; Cape Town, Edinburgh; Hong Kong; Indiana (Bloomington); Liverpool; London City; Oldenburg; Reading; SMU Dallas; Soochow (Taipei); Texas at Austin; Tulane; College of William and Mary, Virginia; Wurzburg.

Administrative responsibilities (major positions)

At the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, between 1967 and 1990: various periods of service on College Senate, Council, Court and Staffing Committee, and on the Court of the University of Wales. Chairman of Examinations Board in Law; Tutor for Admissions in Law (undergraduate and postgraduate). Member of various Appointments Committees, including appointments to Chairs.

At Queen Mary, University of London, between 1991and 2000 : College Academic Board; periods of service on College Investments Committee; as Chairman of the Board of Graduate Studies in Law; as Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (1992-94). Member of various Appointments Committees for Chairs in Law.

Current research:

My principal research activity currently lies in the field of Insolvency Law, including its domestic, international (cross-border) and comparative aspects. My interests extend across both personal and corporate insolvency law. Among my recent major publications are a book on Insolvency in Private International Law, published by Oxford University Press in March 1999 (second edition September 2005; Supplement to the Second edition, 2007); the third edition of my treatise on the Law of Insolvency, published by Sweet & Maxwell in May 2002 (fourth edition pending 2008); Joint editor and contributing author of Lightman and Moss, The Law of Administrators and Receivers of Companies, (fourth edition 2007); and a Commentary and Annotation to the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings, written and edited together with Gabriel Moss QC, Stuart Isaacs QC and others (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Future academic activity:

While continuing my research and teaching in Insolvency Law, and also in Private International Law, I intend to unite these activities with my long-standing interest in the field of Commercial Law, particularly in the areas of Debt, Credit and Security, International Trade and Business Transactions. I have been named as Joint Reporter for the next phase of the Global Insolvency Project of the American Law Institute, to be co-sponsored by the International Insolvency Institute, to develop principles of co-operation in cross-border insolvency cases for application by courts and insolvency office-holders throughout the world. This phase of the project will be conducted between 2006 and 2008.

Languages:

Working knowledge of French.