Prof Geraint Howells is Executive Dean of the College of Business, Public - No restriction Policy and Law at University of Galway. Previously he was Professor of Commercial Law and Associate Dean in Humanities for Internationalisation at Manchester University, where he remains a Visiting Professor. He has also been Dean of Law at the City University of Hong Kong and Head of the Law Schools in Manchester and Lancaster. His first chair was at Sheffield. He was called to the bar in 2002 through a special route for distinguished academics and was awarded an LLD in 2014. Prof Howells has published extensively on consumer law, product liability and European private law and was a member of the Acquis Group, developing common principles of European contract law and tort law. A former President of the International Association of Consumer Law, he edited the Consumer Law Journal for many years; he is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Policy and is Series Editor for Routledges Markets and Law series. He has undertaken extensive consultancy for government, the EU and NGOs.