Francis Rose is a graduate of the University of Oxford, holds a PhD from the University of London, and is a barrister and associate of chambers at Quadrant Chambers. He joined University of Bristol Law School in January 2000, having previously been Professor of Commercial and Common Law at the University of Buckingham, and before that, a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was the Director of the Norton Rose Centre of Commercial Law within the Bristol Law Faculty from 2000-2005. He was the inaugural Sections Secretary of the Society of Public Teachers of Law and is Convener of the Society of Legal Scholars Restitution Section.