Personal Statement
Aygun Mammadzada has joined Liverpool Law School from Swansea Law School where she lectured for 4 years. Prior to that she lectured at different law schools including Bournemouth, Southampton and Baku State University. Anchored in private international law as her principal area of interest, her research and teaching cover international business, trade and maritime law, international commercial dispute resolution (including arbitration), and emerging technologies. Her PhD, fully funded by the University of Southampton, examined party autonomy under the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 in comparison with the Brussels Recast Regulation and the New York Arbitration Convention, with particular attention to post-Brexit implications. She is a Lindemann Fellow in Private International Law, qualified lawyer, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and member of the expert working groups of the European Association of Private International Law and the Hague Conference on the Digital Assets and Jurisdiction Projects.

Research Overview
• Book, Enhancing Party Autonomy: The Hague Choice of Court Convention in a Changing Global Order, (Routledge, forthcoming 2027)

• “Parallel Proceedings in Post-Brexit Commercial Litigation: Can the Hague Jurisdiction Project Fill the Gap?”, Netherlands International Law Review,
Special Issue “Rethinking commercial conflicts of laws 10 years after Brexit” (forthcoming, 2027)

• National Report on Azerbaijan Republic’s Private International Law, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming
2027)

• “Legal Fragmentation, Parallel Proceedings and Hague Draft Convention”, Edited Collection of the Lindemann Fellowship (Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming
2027)

• “Towards Technology-Responsive Arbitration: Navigating AI, Quantum Computing, and Procedural Justice”, Special Issue “Quantum Computing & the
Regulation of Law” in International Review of Law, Computers & Technology (forthcoming 2027)

• “Applicable Law and Private International Law Challenges in Electronic Trade Documents: Lessons from the Law Commission’s Reform Agenda” in
Transport Law in Digital Age, (eds Baris Soyer and Andrew Tettenborn) Informa Law from Routledge, Taylor and Francis, (forthcoming 2026)

• “Beyond the Model Law: The Case for a Commonwealth-Wide Adoption of the Hague Judgments Convention" (2025) 21(3) Journal of Private
International Law, 509-549

• “Navigating Parallel Proceedings: The Hague Judgments Convention and Non-Exclusive (Asymmetrical) Jurisdiction Agreements”, in Commercial
Disputes: Resolution and Jurisdiction (eds Baris Soyer and Andrew Tettenborn) Informa Law from Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2024

• “Multilateralism post-Brexit: Do the Hague conventions preserve the status quo of judicial cooperation” (2024) 6 Journal of Business Law, Sweet and
Maxwell, Thomson Reuters and Contributors

• “The Rebirth of the European "Anti-Suit Injunction" Issue post-Brexit”, Damages, Remedies, and Recoveries in Shipping and Commercial Law, Informa
Law from Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2023

• “Contracting on Subjects: The Newcastle Express” (2023) 23(2) Lloyd's Shipping and Trade Law, 5-8 (co-authored)

• “Arbitral Anti-Suit Measures: Implications of Mutual Trust”, (2023) 3(1) The Italian Review of International and Comparative Law), 28-60

• “Electronic consent to an arbitration agreement”, in (Pietro Ortolani, André Janssen and Pieter Wolters, eds.) International Arbitration and Technology,
Wolter Kluwers, 2022 (co-authored)

• Book review on Party Autonomy in Private International Law by Alex Mills, (2019) 2 Journal of Business Law

• “Is the Fog Over Non-European States Lifted?”, Onikilevha Publishing House, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018

• “О совершенствовании трудового кодекса Азербайжанской Республики: The Reforms to The Labor Code of Azerbaijan Republic": National
Research University "Higher School of Economics", Faculty of Law, Department of labor law, labor law reform, Collection of student work in Russian,
pp. 69-74, Moscow, 2012