William Blair, High Court Judge, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, Queen's Bench Division,Richard Brent, Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings,Tom Grant, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

The Hon. Mr Justice Blair is a High Court Judge, a nominated judge in the Commercial Court and Judge in charge of the Commercial Court. Before his appointment in 2008 he worked as a leading barrister specialising in the law of domestic and international banking and finance, including financial fraud and conflicts of law. He is a visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics.


Richard Brent is a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings specializing in commercial law, in particular banking and insurance law and their international and EU law aspects. He is a former Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and a F.R.Hist.S.

Dr Tom Grant is a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, and a practising public international lawyer, whose interests include State immunity, State succession, international investment protection, international organizations, use of force under international law, comparative constitutional law, diplomatic history, and technology and the law. He is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia.

Andrew Bodnar, Matrix Chambers
Viet D. Dinh, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Professor Zachary Douglas QC, Matrix Chambers
James Evans 3 Verulam Buildings
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Faculty of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
Rudi Fortson, 25 Bedford Row and Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London
D. Zachary Hudson, Afiniti
David Kirk, McGuireWoods LLP
Jonathan Peddie, Baker & McKenzie LLP
Cheong-Ann Png, Asian Development Bank
Andrew Thornton-Dibb, McGuireWoods LLP
Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
Megan M. Wold, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

"the book is a well-written composition that provides a comprehensive picture of the complicated field of the international law of tainted money. The book's thorough and profound analyses will unquestionably serve as an important tool in meeting the challenges of continued exploration in this field." -- Professor Ruth Plato-Shinar, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation

Review from previous edition: "This work is a collecion of essays....from nine distinguished authors who, drawn from the commercial and public law Bar and the banking industry, share several lifetimes' worth of practical experience and insight into this ever more complex, multi-layered and fast-moving area of law. It is welcome for that reason alone." - Professor Joanna Gray, Journal of Business Law

"A thorough and well-researched resource for law libraries with collections on international banking, particularly those that deal with the UK or other European nations." - Jim Kelly, Access Services Research Librarian, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

"This book is easily one of the most useful additions to the emerging literature on tainted money." - The Commonwealth Lawyer

"The book succeeds as a comprehensive and sometimes thought-provoking guide to a difficult and multi-faceted topic." - Professor Joanna Gray, Journal of Business Law