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Irene Pietropaoli
Senior Research Fellow in Business & Human Rights and Director of the Business and Human Rights Forum
Biography Dr Irene Pietropaoli is a Senior Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights and joined BIICL in October 2018. She is the Director of the Business and Human Rights Forum and conducts research and training programmes on corporate human rights and environmental due diligence. For example she leads BIICL's research on human rights in global supply chains and BIICL's short course on business and human rights. Irene is also leading BIICL's work on Artificial Intelligence …
Artificial Intelligence+4David Llewelyn
Honorary Senior Fellow
Biography Professor David Llewelyn joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2020. Professor Llewelyn is a Professor of Law at King's College London and a partner and Head of Intellectual Property at international law firm White & Case in its London office. He is also External Director of the IP Academy Singapore and Honorary Professor in Intellectual Property Law at Hong Kong University. After a period as a NATO Fellow in 1979, Professor Llewelyn spent nearly two years as a Research…
Artificial Intelligence+1Eva Lein
Senior Research Fellow in Private International Law and Director, Centre for Comparative Law
Biography Eva is Professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Comparative Law Center at BIICL. Her fields of expertise are private international law, international dispute resolution and comparative law with a special focus on contract law and, more recently, digitalisation. She has also been a Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and at Queen Mary, Institute in Paris, a Visiting Professor at different institutions, including the University Paris I (Sorbonne),…
Arbitration+5Mark Findlay
Distinguished Fellow
Biography Mark Findlay is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Law School, University of Edinburgh. He also enjoys a Visiting Global Professorship, School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technology University of Munich, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Currently he teaches at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and at TUM. For over a decade Mark was a Professor in the Law School, Singapore Management University, and…
Artificial Intelligence+2Law Goes Virtual
Last Updated: 29th January 2026
Law Goes Virtual Welcome to Law Goes Virtual Digital technologies are transforming nearly every aspect of economic, social, and legal life. The growing power of global technology companies, the rise of data-driven economies, and the expansion of virtual environments are reshaping markets, property, identity, governance, and even international humanitarian law. Conventional legal concepts—such as ownership, jurisdiction, accountability, and…
Artificial Intelligence+1Breathing Space- Concept Notes on the effect of the pandemic on commercial contracts
Eva Lein | 28th April 2022
The Breathing Space Concept note arose out of a meeting on 7 April 2020 hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, attended by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Sir David Edward, Sir William Blair, Professor Spyros Maniatis, Professor Malik Dahlan and Keith Ruddock. It was felt that in the emergency situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic, a universal challenge, a debate should happen as a matter of priority on the necessary…
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