Mary Keyes is a professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Her research and teaching centres on cross-border family relationships and commercial transactions, and the resolution of cross-border family and commercial disputes. She is especially interested in the use of agreements to facilitate international commercial and family relationships and transactions, and to deal with their collapses. She is currently preparing her special course which will be delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2020.