Trevor Hartley

Trevor Hartley started teaching at LSE in 1969 after five years at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Since 2004 he has been Emeritus Professor of Law at LSE. He still teaches two courses on International Business Transactions and contributes to a course on Advanced Issues of European Law. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of California (Berkeley), Michigan, Florida and Texas and at the College of Europe, Bruges.

Research interests

His current research interests centre on private international law (international litigation and conflict of laws) and the constitutional law of the European Union. He has recently completed a book of text, cases and materials on international commercial transactions and litigation entitled International Commercial Litigation (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is now working on a new book on choice-of-court agreements in EU and international law. He continues to advise the Ministry of Justice on private international law.

External activities

• Member of the American Law Institute (elected in 1998)
• Member of the European Group for Private International Law (GEDIP) (invited to join in 1991)
• Member of the Standing Committee on Private International Law (appointed 2004)
• Given evidence or delivered papers before committees of the House of Lords, the Swedish Parliament and the European Parliament