Transnational Commercial and Consumer Law

Editors


Toshiyuki Kono is a distinguished professor at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). He currently serves as vice president and titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, president-elect for the Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, and the chair of the Committee for Intellectual Property and Private International Law at the International Law Association. In the field of private international law, he gave special lectures on "Efficiency in Private International Law" at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2013. He was selected as one of three lecturers who are invited to publish lectures in its Pocket Book series in 2014. He also has served as the president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an advisory body of UNESCO, since 2017. He was a vice president of ICOMOS from 2014 through 2017. He is in charge of, among others, World Heritage issues. He has been active in UNESCO as an independent expert as well. For example, he served in 2010 as the chairperson of the 3rd General Assembly of the State Parties of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and chairperson of the Legal Committee of the 34th UNESCO General Conference in 2007. His recent publications in the field of international heritage law include "Authenticity, notions and principles", Change over Time, Fall 2014, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 436-460.

Mary Hiscock is an emeritus professor of Bond University, Queensland, Australia. She taught at Bond University and the University of Melbourne, with visiting appointments in Europe, Asia, and North America. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Her expertise is in international trade and investment, with an emphasis on international contracts and comparative law. She graduated from the University of Melbourne and the University of Chicago. She is a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of Victoria,