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School of International Arbitration

Members

Head

Professor Julian Lew QC founded the School of International Arbitration in 1985. He has been involved with international arbitration as an academic, practitioner and arbitrator since the early 1970s. He has written extensively on international commercial and investment arbitration and has lectured and been a visiting professor in many countries around the world. Professor Lew has been involved with many of the major international arbitration institutions, including having been a member of the Courts of the ICC, LCIA and SIAC. He was a member of the ICC Institute of World Law, the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and has chaired various ICC task forces. He was also the founder, and is now the joint editor, of the International Arbitration Law Library (Kluwer). As a practising international arbitration lawyer, Professor Lew represented clients, including governments and multinationals, in many international arbitrations. Since 2005 he has been a full-time international arbitrator at Twenty Essex and accepts appointments as arbitrator in commercial and investor-state disputes.

Director

Professor Stavros Brekoulakis, Professor in International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London and an arbitrator at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn.

Professor Brekoulakis serves in several public positions and commissions of trust including being a member of the LCIA Court, ICC Commission on Arbitration, Investment Expert Trade Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Trade, Steering Committee of the UNCITRAL Academic Forum on ISDS. He is the Editor-in-Chief of CIArb’s Academic Journal, General Editor of Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and Co-editor of Kluwer’s International Arbitration Law Library series. Brekoulakis is being recognised by Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration as “reigning thought leader in the arbitration space” and “one of the great minds in the international arbitration world” with “a seemingly encyclopaedic recall of jurisprudence"; he is the recipient of the 2020 GAR Award for Best Public Speech.

Deputy Director

Ms Norah Gallagher is Academic Director of the Energy Law Institute and former ‘Jean Monnet Chair in Natural Resources Law and Policy’ (2018-2019) at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Norah is a public international lawyer who has specialised in international dispute resolution for over 20 years. She has advised on a range of issues on international commercial and investment cases and sits regularly as arbitrator. Norah worked at Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and was Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from December 2007 before moving to Singapore in 2010.

Academic Members

  • Dr Debbie De Girolamo
    Debbie De Girolamo is a Reader in Law and is the Director of the LLM in Art, Business and Law. She teaches and conducts research on conflict, dispute resolution and art law. Areas of current research focus also include justice, social order, legal pluralism, the social relationship between art and law, and cultural property disputes. Debbie has written extensively about dispute resolution processes and her monograph on commercial mediations, The Fugitive Identity of Mediation: Negotiations, Shift Changes and Allusionary Action was published by Routledge. Debbie is currently writing a second monograph on lawyer negotiations, also to be published by Routledge.
  • Dr Remy Gerbay, Lecturer in Arbitration and International Commercial Law; Co-director of the distance learning LL.M, PGDip and Certificate in International Dispute Resolution.
    Remy Gerbay has been teaching at Queen Mary University since 2011. His research focuses on arbitral institutions, arbitral decision-making, and the theory of arbitration. Alongside his academic post, Remy is also Partner at a US-based law firm where he acts as counsel in arbitrations and sits as arbitrator. Remy holds a PhD in international arbitration law from Queen Mary, a LLM from Georgetown, a Master’s in international law from the University of Geneva (Graduate Institute), and a French law degree from the University of Lyon. Remy is a former Deputy Registrar of the LCIA, and Registrar of DIFC-LCIA. He is admitted as an Attorney (New York, Washington DC) and a Solicitor (England and Wales).
  • Professor Loukas Mistelis, Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration
    Loukas Mistelis is a former director of the School of International Arbitration (2002-2019) and director of the Queen Mary and UNIDROIT Institute of Transnational Commercial Law. He teaches international commercial arbitration, international investment law and dispute settlement on the LLM programme and is academic director of the Queen Mary LLM programme in comparative and international dispute resolution. He is recognised in all major professional directors as a leading arbitrator and thought leader.
  • Dr Mary Mitsi
    Mary is a Lecturer in Commercial Law specialising in International Arbitration. She is the Director for Executive Education at the Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Law Studies contributing to the training of industry professionals and judges. Mary teaches international commercial arbitration, and investment arbitration. Her publications include the monograph on 'The decision-making process of Investor-State Arbitration Tribunals' (Kluwer Law International 2019). Mary holds a PhD in international arbitration law from Queen Mary, a Master 2 from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a law degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
  • Professor Maxi Scherer, Chair in International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law, Academic Director of the International Dispute Resolution LLM in Paris
    Maxi is an Avocat at the Paris bar and a solicitor (England and Wales), and has practiced international arbitration for about 20 years, as counsel, arbitrator and legal expert. Maxi publishes extensively, including “International Arbitration in the Energy Sector” (OUP, 2018) and “International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution” (Kluwer, 2020). She is the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration and has received the GAR Award for Best Speech or Lecture in 2018. Who’s Who Legal has identified her in the highest category as “Global Elite Thought Leader” and among the top 20 in Europe and the MENA region.

Visiting and Honorary Professors

Faculty Affiliates

  • Ms Samantha Bagstad
  • Mr Alejandro Escobar
  • Mr Steven Finizio
  • Ms Wendy Miles QC
  • Mr Felipe Sperandio
  • Mr Monty Taylor
  • Mr Craig Tevendale
  • Mr Epaminontas Triantafillou

Teaching Fellows

  • Mr Jack Biggs
  • Mr Carlos Carvalho
  • Ms Elizabeth Chan
  • Ms Uliana Cooke
  • Ms Caroline Croft
  • Ms Mercy McBrayer
  • Ms Lilit Nagapetyan
  • Mr Maxim Osadchiy
  • Mr Gianmarco Rao
  • Simona Valkova
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