Professor Michael Furmston is an internationally-acknowledged authority on contract and commercial law. The author of the leading textbook Cheshire Fifoot & Furmston on Contract (17th edition 2017) and Editor of the Construction Law Reports , volumes 1-150, his published work extends to over 20 books and many dozens of articles, chapters and other contributions. An eminent academic, he has taught at Oxford, where he was a Fellow of Lincoln College; at Bristol, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Pro Vice Chancellor; and also at other institutions of international standing. He was appointed Emeritus Professor at Bristol in 1998 and Dean and Professor at Singapore Management University's School of Law. Professor Furmston was called to the English Bar in 1960 (Gray's Inn) and has been a Bencher of Gray's Inn since 1989. He appeared in the House of Lords in Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth on the measure of damages for defective construction and has acted as consultant to many clients, owners, contractors and consultants on commercial and construction law. ORCID 0000-0002-6954-2698.