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Dr Maria Fanou, PhD (EUI); LLM (Harvard); LLM (Cambridge); LLM (Athens), LLB (Athens); Attorney-at-law (Dikigoros, Athens Bar Association)

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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Dispute Resolution

Email: m.fanou@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Maria Fanou is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Dispute Resolution at Queen Mary University of London, School of International Arbitration (SIA). She is also the Academic Director of the Comparative and International Dispute Resolution programme in London and the Acting Director of the LLM programme in Paris.

Dr Fanou is also a qualified lawyer (Dikigoros, Athens Bar Association) with more than 15 years of practical experience in international dispute resolution both acting independently and working at law firms in Athens, Brussels, and Paris. Prior to joining Queen Mary, she worked as a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Dr Fanou completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, a Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB) and a Postgraduate Diploma (Master) in Civil Law at the University of Athens, as well as postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (LLM), Harvard Law School (LLM, VR, Fulbright Schuman Scholar), and Queen Mary (LLM in International Dispute Resolution and Economic Law). She has conducted postdoctoral research at Queen Mary and the University of Zurich.

Languages: Greek (native), English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian (basic).

Postgraduate Teaching

Dr Fanou teaches on the LLM programme (Comparative and International Dispute Resolution) in London and in Paris.

Areas of teaching: international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, ADR, and advocacy skills.

Research

See Dr Fanou’s involvement with the School of International Arbitration's empirical work. This was covered the Global Arbitration Review:

Research areas (indicative): investor-State arbitration, international commercial arbitration, sports arbitration, international investment law, international dispute resolution

Publications

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Public Engagement

  • Country Reporter for Greece for CELIS Institute (since 2021), advising on the legal landscape of foreign investments in Greece in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness. 
  • Editorial boards (current): Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Wolters Kluwer, Associate Editor overseeing the Europe and Investment Arbitration teams (2019-today); European Investment Law and Arbitration Review, Member of the Editorial Board;
    • Editorial Boards (formerly): Harvard Journal of International law, Submissions Editor (academic year 2012-13); Harvard Business Law Review, Senior Editor (academic year 2012-13); Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Submissions Committee Member (academic year 2012-13); Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (Cambridge Journal of International Law) (AY2011-12), Editor; Efarmoges Dimosiou Dikaiou (Public Law in Practice, 2008-2011, Editor; Co-editor in chief since 2009).
    • Investment Claims, Oxford University Press (Treaty Overview and Headnotes) (2019).
    • Contributor, Jus Mundi.
  • Acts regularly as a peer reviewer for leading publishers and journals.
  • Fulbright Schuman Scholarships Programme (Schuman Scholarship, Student Selection Committee calls of 2024, 2022, 2020 and 2019).
  • Mentorship: Young ITA Mentorship Programme (Mentor since 2022).
  • Cambridge ProBono Project (CPP), Cambridge, UK. Member of a research team preparing a research memorandum in response to a request from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2011-12).

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