Richard Law is a Professor of Geology at Virginia Tech. He has worked on structural geology and tectonics projects in the Cadomian and Variscan of western France, Caledonides of northern Scotland, Brooks Range of northern Alaska, White-Inyo Range of eastern California, Diligencia Basin of southern California, Sierra Pampeanas of western Argentina and the Himalaya of Nepal, India, Pakistan and Tibet. A common theme in all these projects has been the integration of data from the micro- to mountain belt scales. He has been an Associate Editor for Geological Society of America Bulletin and is currently Chief Books Editor for the Geological Society of London. He has published more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and was awarded the Coke Medal of the GSL in 2019.