Alex Mills

Alex Mills is Professor of Public and Private International Law in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He joined UCL in September 2011 from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow and College Lecturer at Selwyn College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law from 2006 to 2011. He holds undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Law (both with first class honours) from the University of Sydney, Australia, and practised for three years as a Solicitor in Sydney before completing an LLM (first class) and a PhD (awarded the Yorke Prize in 2007) in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He has been consulted on public and private international law issues by government departments, legal practitioners and non-governmental organisations, and has also served as an expert witness on matters of English and European private international law.

Professor Mills’ research covers a range of topics in and around the fields of Private International Law (also known as the Conflict of Laws) and Public International Law. In private international law, his research covers all core topics, including jurisdiction, choice of law, the recognition and enforcement of judgments, and arbitration, with a focus on commercial disputes. In public international law, his research has focused on questions of jurisdiction, state immunity, and international investment law, but he has taught a range of topics including sources (treaties, customary international law, general principles, etc.), legal personality, statehood and self-determination, dispute settlement, and questions of the constitutionalisation and fragmentation of international law. He is also interested in areas of research which cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries, including foreign relations law, global governance, sports arbitration, and transnational (non-state) law.

For further information, please see his profile page at www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/people/dr-alex-mills