Rate My Professor Louise Gullifer

Professor Louise Gullifer KC (Hon) FBA is the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, Chair of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. She holds an MA in Jurisprudence and a BCL from the University of Oxford. Prior to her appointment at Cambridge, she served as Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Harris Manchester College, where she was the founding director of the Commercial Law Centre. Gullifer is an associate member of 3VB chambers, where she practiced for several years, and a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. She has held significant international roles, including as the UK delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group VI during its work on secured transactions, Oxford academic lead for the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, and member of various UNIDROIT working groups on the Cape Town Convention. She is also a member of the International Insolvency Institute and the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, and has acted as an expert witness in cases concerning set-off, intermediated securities, and insolvency law. Her honors include being appointed KC (Hon) and elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Gullifer teaches and writes extensively in commercial and financial law, with particular expertise in secured transactions, financial collateral, intermediated securities, set-off, personal property, and digital assets. She is co-director of a project on digital assets and executive director of the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project. Her scholarly impact is evident in numerous influential publications. Key books include Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (4th ed., 2025, with Jennifer Payne), Goode and Gullifer on Legal Problems of Credit and Security (7th ed., 2022, with Roy Goode), The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing (4th ed., 2024, ed. with Michael Bridge and Eva Lomnicka), The Law of Personal Property (3rd ed., 2021, with Michael Bridge, Gerard McMeel, and Kelvin F.K. Low), Secured Transactions Law in Asia (2021, ed. with D. Neo), and Secured Transactions Law Reform in Africa (2019, with Marek Dubovec). Recent articles feature 'Proprietary Rights and Digital Assets: a "Modest Proposal" from a Transnational Law Perspective' (2025, with Ignacio Tirado) and 'The UNCITRAL Model Law and Secured Transactions Law Reform' (2023). Through her work, she has contributed substantially to global secured transactions law reform.