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Centre for Private and Commercial Law (PCL)

Our people

Find out more about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Miss Aminayanasam Tekena-Fubara

Research interests

  • Gender equality
  • Corporate governance
  • Company law

Professor Andrea Lista

Professor of Law

Research interests

  • International Trade (Contracts Concluded on Shipment Terms)
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • The Enforcement of Mariitme Claims

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: a.lista@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Brenda Hannigan

PROFESSOR OF LAW

Research interests

  • Sustainability reporting
  • Directors' Liabilities
  • Risk Management

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: b.m.hannigan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Dean Taylor LL.B LL.M FHEA

Lecturer in Law

Research interests

  • Property & Land law
  • Housing law and its policies/regulation in the welfare and neoliberal states
  • Equity and the law of trusts

Email: dean.taylor@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Miss Ece Selin Yetkin

Research interests

  • Arbitration Law
  • Maritime Arbitration
  • Maritime Law

Email: e.s.yetkin@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Francisco José Ciancetta

Research interests

  • Financial Law and Regulation (Banking, Securities, Insurance)
  • Block Chain and Digital Assets
  • International Monetary Law

Mr Haoxi Tang

Research interests

  • Carriage of Goods by Sea
  • International Sale of Goods
  • Maritime law

Dr Haris Psarras LLB, LLM (NKUA), MJur (Oxon), PhD (Edin)

Associate Dean International

Research interests

  • General Jurisprudence
  • Tort Theory and the Philosophy of Private Law
  • Law and Humanities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.psarras@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Hedvig Schmidt

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Competition Law and Policy
  • Antitrust Law
  • Intellectual Property Law

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: h.k.schmidt@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ