Gail Pearson is Professor of Business Law at the University of Sydney where she Chairs the PHDASC and is Deputy Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee of Academic Board. She was Chair of the Discipline of Business Law. She is a Member of the Code Compliance Committee for Customer Owned Banks. Her books and articles are on financial services and credit and other aspects of commercial and consumer law. She has been a Member of the Fair Trading Tribunal of New South Wales, the consultative committee to the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, and the Business Law Specialist Accreditation Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales. With others from the IACL she was a member of the International law Association Committee on the International Protection of Consumers. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Advance Studies at JNU and of the Australia India Institute. With Nicola Howell of QUT, she founded the Australasian Consumer Law Roundtable.