Andrew Godwin holds a number of senior positions at Melbourne Law School: Associate Dean (Engagement); Director of Transactional Law; Director of Studies for the Graduate Program in Banking and Finance Law; Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School in 2007, Andrew was in legal practice for over 15 years, 10 of which were spent in Shanghai as a partner of an international law firm. Andrew researches in the area of finance and insolvency law, financial regulation, financial services law, property law and the regulation of the legal profession. Andrew has published extensively in both academic and professional journals and is a co-author of Sackville & Neave Australian Property Law (10th edition, 2016). He is currently co-editing The Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law (Edward Elgar) and The Cambridge Handbook of Twin Peaks Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press). He holds the following degrees from The University of Melbourne: BA (Hons); LLB (Hons); LLM; PhD. Andrew is a recognised expert in the area of financial product disclosure, both in Australia and internationally. In 2009, he was invited by the Federal Department of the Treasury, Financial Services Working Group, to provide policy advice on the reforms to financial product disclosure in Australia and his ‘stark language’ terminology was formally adopted by the Commonwealth Government in its regulations for non-standard margin lending disclosure and by ASIC in its Regulatory Guide 219, ‘Non-standard margin lending facilities: Disclosure to investors’. Andrew’s engagement with regulators and other bodies includes the following: advice to the World Bank on bank resolution and recovery (2016); co-writer of a background paper on small business lending for the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (2018); advice to ASIC on the Asia Region Funds Passport (2014); advice to APRA on its enforcement strategy review, for which he assisted in the drafting of the report (2019). Andrew worked closely with the National Treasury of South Africa on its adoption of the Twin Peaks model of financial regulation (2015 – 2017) and has also provided advice to the Chinese financial regulators on the experience of the Twin Peaks model in Australia.