Professor Ian Fletcher was appointed to the Chair of Herbert Smith Professor of International Commercial Law at University College London in January 2001. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and was
called to the Bar in 1971. He currently practises from South Square Chambers. Professor Fletcher's principal research interests are in the fields of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, EC Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law. He has written widely in these areas and sits on the editorial boards of
several law journals.
