Professor Anselmo Reyes, SC, has been Professor of Legal Practice at Hong Kong University since October 2012.Before that, he was a judge of the Hong Kong High Court from 2003-12, when he was in charge of the Construction and Arbitration List (2004-8) and the Commercial and Admiralty Lists (2008-12). He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1986, taking silk in 2001. In April 2013, he became Representative of the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. He became an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court in January 2015 and an Overseas Bencher of the Inner Temple in October 2015.