Biography

Mavluda Sattorova is a Fernand Braudel Fellow and professor of international investment and trade law at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on 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, and served on the steering committee of the Academic Forum for ISDS. She was a visiting fellow at the Cambridge University Lauterpacht Centre, National University of Singapore, and lectured as a visiting professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Nagoya University (Japan), and the University of Melbourne. She was appointed as a UKRI Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (2019-23) and as senior adviser in the Government Legal Department (2024-25). In 2022-25, she served as Director for Research at the International Law Association British Branch. Mavluda's recent research project "Corporation as a good citizen" was funded by the British Academy Mid-career Fellowship (2021-22). Mavluda is a founding director of the CLAS (Corporations, Law and Society) research cluster. She teaches in the areas of international investment and trade law, investment arbitration, international economic law, and the law governing multinational corporations.

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