Dr Georgia Antonopoulou

Georgia has a long-standing interest in cross-border commercial dispute resolution, especially international commercial courts and international commercial arbitration. In the academic literature, international commercial dispute resolution is often viewed as a market where different states and dispute resolution methods compete with the aim of attracting cases. In her research, Georgia is motivated by the desire to disrupt these mainstream market accounts which reinforce an under socialized understanding of commercial dispute resolution, coupled with a keen interest in promoting access to justice for diverse types of litigants (UN SDG 16). In doing this, she combines doctrinal research with interviews with stakeholders in various jurisdictions.

Georgia’s research has been published in both specialised in commercial dispute resolution and generalist peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of International Dispute Settlement and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. She is currently working on her first monograph on international commercial courts to be published with Cambridge University Press. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the Socio-Legal Scholars Association and the Birmingham-Leiden Strategic Collaboration Fund.

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.