John Birds

John Birds is Emeritus Professor in the School of Law, University of Manchester and Honorary Professor in both the School of Law, University of Sheffield and the School of Law, University of Exeter. He was Professor of Commercial Law at Manchester from 2006 to 2010, having previously been Professor of Commercial Law and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Sheffield. He taught at Sheffield from 1978 after six years as a lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London. His interests lie in Insurance Law and Company Law, and he has lectured and written widely on these topics. Among other things, he is the author of Modern Insurance Law, the tenth edition of which was published in 2016, has been for several editions one of the editors of MacGillivray on Insurance Law, the thirteenth edition being published in 2015, is one of the editors of The Principles of European Insurance Contract Lawand is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Insurance Law. He is a contributor to Gore-Browne on Companies(forty-fifth edition, 2004) and co-editor of Boyle and Birds' Company Law(ninth edition, 2014). He has been on the editorial board of a number of journals and is the editor of the Insurance section the Journal of Business Law. He has also written numerous articles in the fields of insurance and company law, was a consultant to the UK Law Commissions concerning their project on insurance law reform and a member of the Project Group and Drafting Committee of the Project for the Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law.