Lilit Nagapetyan, LLM (Cambridge), PGDip (Queen Mary), Specialist in Law (Lomonosov), CLIT

Profile

Lilit Nagapetyan is a Teaching Associate (previously - Teaching Fellow) at Queen Mary University of London, School of International Arbitration, and specialises in teaching Small-Group Teaching sessions to postgraduate students enrolled on the specialised Comparative and International Dispute Resolution LLM programme.

She also practices in London as a dual-qualified Solicitor Advocate with experience in large-scale cross-border and domestic commercial litigations and high-value international commercial arbitration proceedings (LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL etc).  She has also assisted clients in resolving disputes through ADR including mediation, expert determination, negotiation.

Lilit has been a Visiting Researcher at the UNIDROIT in Rome, Italy, at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, and at the National University of Singapore. She is a recipient of the Modern Law Review scholarship, the ICCA Johnny Veeder Fellowship, the WCA Travelling Scholarship, and is winner of the inaugural Y-ICCA essay competition.

In addition to teaching, Lilit has successfully coached university teams for international competitions involving advocacy in international dispute resolution, including Willem C. Vis Moot and CPR International Mediation Competition.

Lilit holds the degrees of Specialist in Law (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Master of Laws (University of Cambridge), and PgDip in International Dispute Resolution (Arbitration) (Queen Mary University of London).

She also currently pursues her PhD at CCLS on Corruption in International Arbitration. Her research focuses on the emergence of transnational responses to various procedural issues related to corruption in international arbitration.

Lilit is an Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy and holds the Certificate of Learning and Teaching (CILT) qualification with distinction.

Postgraduate Teaching

• SOLM042 International Construction Contracts and Dispute Resolution
• SOLM043 International Arbitration Law and Practice: Theory and Context
• SOLM044 International Arbitration Law and Practice: Applicable Law and Procedures
• SOLM045 International Commercial Litigation
• SOLM046 Conflict of Laws
• SOLM295 International Sports Arbitration

Research

Publications

• Procedural Challenges in Investment Arbitration: The Standard of Proof for Corruption, Conference proceedings of the 2nd Bucerius Conference on Investment Law and Arbitration (forthcoming)
• Co-author of the chapter on “Jurisdictional Challenges”, GAR Guide to Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards, 2023 (3rd edition).
• Co-editor (with S.Brekoulakis and R.Weeramantry), “Achieving the Arbitration Dream: Liber Amicorum for Professor Julian D.M. Lew KC”, Kluwer Law International, 2023.
• Confidentiality in international commercial arbitration does not undermine the legitimacy of the process, ICCA Congress series (Vol. 21), 2023.