Dr. Benjamin Geva is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He specializes in commercial, financial and banking law, particularly in payment and credit instruments, electronic banking and the regulation of the payment system. He obtained his LL.B. (cum laude) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1970) and his LL.M. and S.J.D. at Harvard. He held visiting positions, in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as taught in the summer program of Duke university in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; in Singapore at the National University of Singapore, in Germany in the University of Hamburg, and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He has been a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany, as well as a Senior Global Research Fellow, at the Hauser Global Visitors Program, New York University School of Law. He practised with Blake, Cassels and Graydon in Toronto and is now counsel with Torys where he is a member of the Payment and Card Practice Group.  Under the IMF technical assistance program he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly, on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia (Serbia), Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka. Particularly in Canada but also in the United States and in the international arena he has been on legislative committees and drafting working groups in the areas of personal property security, securities transfers,  letters of credits & independent guarantees, and payment law. He has been on the Osgoode faculty since 1977. He is the founding editor in chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review (BFLR) and has written extensively in his areas of expertise, including a monograph on Financing Consumer Sales and Product Defences in Canada and the US (Toronto: Carswell, 1984), a treatise on the Law of Electronic Funds Transfer (New York: Matthew Bender, 1992, kept current with annual updates, since 1997 with contributors), a comparative law text on Bank Collections and Payment Transactions (Oxford: OUP, 2001), and a monograph on The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- A Legal History (Oxford and Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2011). His current research is on the bank money, bank deposits, negotiable instruments & funds transfers, and payment and settlement systems.