London Faculty

Courtenay Barklem

Adjunct Professor
Human Rights

Courtenay Barklem qualified as a lawyer in 2000. He is called to the bar in England and California. He has a commercial practice in arbitration and construction disputes. He has also carried out numerous missions in-country, during his five years as the Human Rights Advisor to the Law Society of England and Wales. He has also acted as a consultant on UK Ministry of Justice and Foreign Office projects. He has worked on a number of high profile international human rights cases and has developed extensive experience in legal development and international law reform.

Philippa Charles 

Adjunct Professor
International Commercial Arbitration

Professor Charles is a Partner and the Head of the International Arbitration Department at Stewarts, the UK’s largest disputes-only law firm. She has 25 years of experience in the conduct of arbitrations on behalf of clients ranging from sovereign states and state owned entities, large corporations and niche industry participants to high net worth individuals. She is a solicitor advocate who has conducted trial advocacy both in London and in the UAE, and has experience of arbitrations before ICC, LCIA, SCC, SAI and other institutions, as well as in ad hoc proceedings, and has advised on disputes involving foreign applicable laws including those of Brazil, China, Nigeria, New York, France and the UAE. She sits as an arbitrator and has been appointed as sole or presiding arbitrator in cases under LCIA, ICC and SIAC Rules and in ad hoc proceedings.

Professor Charles is a law graduate of Oxford University. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Certified Mediator with CEDR, and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, as well as of the ICC UK National Committee on Arbitration and ADR. Prior to joining Stewarts in 2013, Professor Charles was a partner in the London office of Mayer Brown. 

Jiries Saadeh

Adjunct Professor
International Investment Disputes

Professor Saadeh is an adjunct professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, teaching International Investment Disputes. He is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings). Professor Saadeh maintains a broad practice encompassing advisory and contentious public international law work, including representing clients in international investment treaty and commercial arbitration cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and other institutional rules. He has trained government lawyers in public international law and investor-State arbitration and frequently speaks and lectures about international law and practice.

Professor Saadeh holds a BA / MA from the University of Oxford and an LLM in public international law from the University of Leiden. He sits on the consultation board for Practical Law's arbitration service, alongside a number of eminent practitioners and academics in the field, where he advises on developments in international arbitration (and investor-state arbitration in particular). Prior to returning to private practice in London in 2016, Professor Saadeh worked as a Legal Officer at United Nations headquarters in New York, where he litigated before the United Nations Dispute and Appeals Tribunals.

Lauren Suding

Adjunct Professor
International Moot Court

Ms Suding is a practicing barrister at Field Court Chambers. She regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal, the Family Court, and the Court of Protection, including in the High Court. Lauren's legal career has also included work at the Free Representation Unit, The Access to Justice Foundation, and Allen & Overy. She came to the law following a successful career in financial services, reaching Executive Director level at firms including JP Morgan, Standard & Poors and Oppenheimer.

Ms Suding was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, where she was awarded a Lord Lowry Scholarship. She is currently an officer of the Middle Temple Young Barristers' Association and a member of the Middle Temple Hall Committee and Finance and Resources Committee. She has lived in California, New York, DC, and Ireland, attended Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a BSc from Stanford University.

Alexander Türk

Adjunct Professor
European Union Law

Professor Türk is an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, teaching European Union Law. Professor Türk is the director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. He studied History and Law at Augsburg, Germany. He obtained an LL.M in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He also holds a PhD from the University of London. He joined King's in 1996. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington.

Professor Türk's principal research interests are in the field of European Union Law, in particular its constitutional and administrative law. He is also interested in comparative constitutional law and US constitutional and administrative law. Professor Türk has many publications, including a co-authored book on EU Administrative Law and Policy (OUP, 2011).

Daniel Wilmot

Adjunct Professor
International Commercial Arbitration

Professor Wilmot is an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, teaching International Commercial Arbitration.  He is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales and is a partner within the specialist International Arbitration team at Stewarts, the UK’s largest disputes-only firm.  Professor Wilmot is individually recognised within the Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and Who’s Who Legal (GAR’s sister publication) rankings of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of international arbitration.  He maintains a broad practice of arbitration work, focused on commercial arbitration but also including investment treaty arbitration and proceedings before courts of the seat (for example, as to interim/injunctive relief or challenges to arbitral awards).  Professor Wilmot has conducted arbitrations under a variety of governing laws and pursuant to the leading institutional/industry rules (LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, DIFC-LCIA, UNCITRAL, LMAA, etc.) and has advised and represented government entities, multinational corporates, investors and (ultra) high-net-worth individuals.  He has delivered presentations/training on the practice and procedure of arbitration to Government ministers, Attorneys-General and senior members of the judiciary, including as part of programmes run by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).  He is also an expert in the use of litigation technology in dispute resolution and has lectured on the same.  He holds an LLB (Laws) from University College London (UCL).  Before Stewarts, he practiced within the international arbitration teams at White & Case and Pinsent Masons (in London).