Nicholas S. Rafferty obtained an undergraduate and a master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge and a further master’s degree from the University of Illinois. He started teaching at the University of Manitoba in 1975. He is currently a Professor of Law at the University of Calgary, where he has taught since 1977, and he is a member of the Alberta Bar. His teaching and research interests include Conflict of Laws, contracts, and torts. He has written extensively in those and other areas. He is presently the general editor of Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text, and Materials (2d ed., 2003), a third edition of which is expected in 2010. He has received several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the University of Calgary President’s Circle Award for Achievement in Teaching Excellence in 2000 and the Distinguished Service Award from the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association for distinguished service in legal scholarship in 2007.