Raymond J. Friel BCL, LLM, BL.Raymond Friel graduated from University College Cork with a BCL and the University of Exeter with an LLM in European Law. He joined the School of Law at Limerick in 1989 and was Head of the School of Law at the University of Limerick from 1996-2002.He held a Visiting Professor appointment at Boston College Law School (2002/3) and he has also held Visiting and Adjunct Professorships at the University of Kansas Law School (2000) and Franklin Pierce Law Center, New Hampshire (2004).He is a Reporter to the Trento Common Core Project on Pre-contractual Liability. His awards include the Government of Canada Research Award Recipient 1997. He is currently Director of… the International Commercial and Economic Research Group which is based in the School of Law.