Professor Mavluda Sattorova
Professor of International Economic Law, University of Liverpool
Mavluda specialises in international economic law broadly defined, with particular focus on international investment law, investor-state arbitration and transnational law governing corporations. She joined Liverpool Law School in September 2010 after completing a PhD in Law (2010) and LLM (2006) at the University of Birmingham where she was a recipient of Chevening scholarship and the Postgraduate Research Award. Mavluda works closely with international organisations and government agencies involved in the design and reform of international investment treaties and national investment policies. She has worked in an expert capacity with the UNCTAD Investment Division and the World Health Organisation. She was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, Cambridge University and National University of Singapore, and lectured as a visiting professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Nagoya University (Japan). Mavluda is a director of the Liverpool Economic Governance Unit (LEGU) and a convenor of the Asian Society of International Law interest group on International Investment and Economic Law. She teaches International Law of Foreign Investment, International Energy Law, World Trade Law, and EU Law. In 2019-21 Mavluda worked in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as an AHRC-ESRC Knowledge Exchange Fellow. Mavluda’s current research project “Corporation as a good citizen” is funded by the British Academy Mid-career Fellowship (2021-22).