Dr Michael Reynolds is a Senior Law Lecturer at University of East London teaching professional skills and international commercial arbitration. He is also a Visiting Professor in Dispute Resolution and Arbitration at BPP University Law School. He was a practising solicitor for 45 years working in Westminster, the City and locally. He has been a practising Chartered Arbitrator for 42 years which has included international arbitration. He was a specialist construction and engineering lawyer and before that practised in medical negligence cases. He has experience of local government having been in the GLC Legal and Parliamentary Department and then in the London Borough of Camden. He has experience of cases in the Official Referees court, now the TCC, and High Court practice with earlier experience of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is a tutor for foreign lawyers on the Jesus College Advanced training Course for Foreign Lawyers, a member of the Atlantic Council (UK) a NATO research organisation, Chatham House, and a former visiting fellow in international relations, international history, and law at the LSE. He is an Editor of The Company Lawyer and a frequent contributor. He has written numerous articles on arbitration, civil justice and recently on international relations. He is the author of several law books and more recently two books on diplomacy and international law dealing with the failure of diplomacy between 1870 and 1914 and 1918 and 1941.