Georgia Antonopoulou

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dispute resolution, private international law

20182024

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Biography

Georgia joined Birmingham Law School in 2021 as a Lecturer in Law. She holds an LLB from the University of Athens, an LLM in Civil Procedure from the same university, and an LLM in German Law with a focus on Private International Law from the University of Freiburg. Georgia is a member of the Athens Bar since 2014 and has worked as an attorney at law specialising in insolvency law and debt recovery for several law firms in Athens. 

Georgia recently defended her PhD at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focused on international commercial courts and their forum selling practices. It was part of a larger project on procedural innovations and access to justice led by Prof. Xandra Kramer and funded by the European Research Council. Georgia was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute on Procedural Law in Luxembourg, and the Singapore Management University, School of Law. She has also worked as a teaching assistant in Research and Writing Skills at Erasmus School of Law and in International and European Law at the China-EU School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law.

Research interests

Georgia's research interests lie in dispute resolution and private international law. During her PhD research, she focused on international commercial courts both in Europe and in Asia. Based on interviews conducted in the Netherlands and Singapore, she examined how international commercial courts make themselves more attractive to prospective litigants by engaging in forum selling and forum marketing. Georgia recently received a grant from the Socio-Legal Studies Association. In this research project, she examines the role of foreign judges in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and their relationship to the local communities. 

More broadly, Georgia is interested in the growing convergence of public and private dispute resolution methods, the link between justice and economic reforms as well as sports arbitration. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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