Michael J. Trebilcock is Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto School of Law. He specializes in law and economics, international trade law, competition law, economic and social regulation, and contract law and theory. He has won awards for his work, including the 1989 Owen Prize by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade, which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the past two years. He has authored: The Limits of Freedom of Contract and co-authored The Regulation of International Trade; Exploring the Domain of Accident Law: Taking the Facts Seriously; Economic Shocks: Defining a Role for Government; The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy; and Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress (co-authored with Ron Daniels). He was a Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and a Global Law Professor at New York University Law School. In 1987, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1999, he was elected President of the American Law and Economics Association. In 2008, he undertook a review of the Legal Aid Program in Ontario for the Attorney-General. In 2007, he received the Ontario Attorney General's Mundell Medal for contributions to Law and Letters, and in 2010, he received the Ontario Premier's Discovery Award for the Social Sciences. He holds an LLB from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and an LLM from the University of Adelaide.