Dr Julian Lonbay teaches European Law. He is the Director of Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies (CPE) and the Postgraduate Research tutor. He is currently the Chairman of the Training Committee of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Julian is a Professeur Invité at the Faculty of Law and Economic Science in the University of Limoges, France and has lectured in China and in many other countries across the world, and has been a visiting professor at the Law School of the University of Indiana, in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and was the Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

His research interests centre on the law relating to legal education; lawyers and other professionals; and cross-border practice and the rules affecting such practice. He has undertaken several major research projects in these areas. The first was for the United Kingdom and Irish Law Societies on the implementation of Directive 89/48/EEC on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications within the EU and EEA. He also completed a project for the European Commission creating a Website that allows lawyers to facilitate their mobility around the Community (ELIXIR). He has worked for Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC) on continuing legal education in the EU and completed an extensive Report on specialist nurses within the EU for the EC Commission (MARKT). Julian was the Director of the Institute of European Law until September 2000. He is a reporter for the International and Comparative Law Quarterly on free movement of persons in European Community law and is the editor in chief of the European Journal of Legal Education.

Julian is the author of Training Lawyers in the European Community (with others) (the Law Society, 1990) and International Professional Practice (with Dr Spedding) (Chancery Law/Wiley, 1992), as well as numerous articles in these and other areas. He has edited Frontiers of Competition Law (Chancery Law, Wiley, 1994), Enhancing the Legal Position of the European Consumer (BIICL, 1996), Remedies for Breach of EC Law before National Courts (Wiley, 1997) (with Andrea Biondi), Pharmaceutical Medicine, Biotechnology and European Law (with Richard Goldberg) (CUP, 2001) and "Reflections on Education and Culture" in Craufurd Smith, R., (ed.) Culture and European Community Law (OUP, 2004).

Websites:

http://elixir.bham.ac.uk/ (Website on the regulation and mobility of legal professions in the EU)