Michael G. Faure is Professor of Comparative Law and Economics at the School of Law, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, and Professor of International and Comparative Environmental Law at Universiteit Maastricht. He is also Academic Director of the Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), the Ius Commune Research School, and the European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE) programme. He is an attorney at the Antwerp Bar and publishes in the areas of environmental criminal law, tort and insurance and economic analysis of accident law.