Dr Aygun Mammadzada

Lecturer in Law

Law

aygun.mammadzada@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 005
Ground Floor
Richard Price Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0633-8342

About

Dr Aygun Mammadzada is a Lecturer in Law at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) based at Swansea Law School, which she joined in August 2022. Aygun's teaching and research span international business, trade and maritime law, commercial conflict of laws, intellectual property law, and dispute resolution, including arbitration and litigation, as well as the evolving impact of technology—particularly digital assets and AI—on legal theory and practice.

Prior to joining the IISTL, Aygun held academic posts at the University of Southampton, Bournemouth University and Baku State University. She holds a PhD in Law fully funded by University of Southampton, where her doctoral research focused on party autonomy under the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 and post-Brexit implications, in comparative perspective with the EU Brussels regime and New York Arbitration Convention.

Aygun has been awarded Max Planck research grants and Konrad Zweigert scholarships and has held visiting research fellowships at leading institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Max Planck Institute for Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg (Luxembourg Centre for European Law) and International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome. Between 2019-2022, she also served as Managing Editor of Global Constitutionalism, published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to her academic career, she is a qualified lawyer in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Before commencing her doctoral studies, she worked as a lawyer at the Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic, International Project and Legal Officer of the Ministry on the Twinning Project, and Erasmus+ Exchange Programme of the European Commission and practised law at several firms, with a focus on civil and commercial matters.

She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has delivered invited guest lectures at academic institutions across Europe and Asia. Aygun also participates in Expert Working Groups, including the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) Working Group on Digital Assets and the Hague Conference’s Experts Group on Digital Tokens.

Areas Of Expertise

Private international law and conflict of laws
International business, trade law, and maritime law
International commercial dispute resolution
International commercial arbitration and litigation
Intellectual property law
Digitalisation and legal innovation

Languages Spoken

German
Russian

Career Highlights

Research

“Navigating Parallel Proceedings: The Hague Judgments Convention and Non-Exclusive (Asymmetrical) Jurisdiction Agreements”, in Commercial Disputes: Resolution and Jurisdiction (Informa Law from Routledge, Oxford, 2024)
“Multilateralism post-Brexit: Do the Hague Conventions Preserve the Status Quo of Judicial Cooperation?”, Journal of Business Law, 2024
“The Rebirth of the European ‘Anti-Suit Injunction’ Issue post-Brexit”, in Damages, Remedies, and Recoveries in Shipping and Commercial Law (Informa Law from Routledge, Oxford, 2023)
“Contracting on Subjects: The Newcastle Express”, Lloyd’s Shipping & Trade Law (co-authored), 2023
“Arbitral Anti-Suit Measures: Implications of Mutual Trust”, The Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, Brill, 2023
“Electronic Consent to an Arbitration Agreement”, in International Arbitration and Technology, Wolters Kluwer, 2022 (co-authored)
Book Review: Party Autonomy in Private International Law by Alex Mills, University College London (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Journal of Business Law, 2019
“Is the Fog Over Non-European States Lifted?”, in Private International Law and the Turkish Legal System, Onikilevha, Istanbul, 2018
“О совершенствовании трудового кодекса Азербайджанской Республики: The Reforms to the Labor Code of Azerbaijan Republic”, in Labor Law Reform, Moscow, 2012
For blog posts see: https://iistl.wpcomstaging.com/author/dramammadzada/ and https://eapil.org

Award Highlights Collaborations

Publications

Research Highlights

Mammadzada, A. (2024). Multilateralism post-Brexit: Do the Hague conventions preserve the status quo of judicial cooperation?. Journal of Business Law, 2024(6), 513-534.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65977
Mammadzada, A. (2023). THE REBIRTH OF THE EUROPEAN “ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTION” ISSUE POST-BREXIT. In B. Soyer and A.M. Tettenborn (Ed.), Damages, Recoveries and Remedies in Shipping Law Informa Law /
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63081

All Research

Journal Articles

Mammadzada, A. (2024). Multilateralism post-Brexit: Do the Hague conventions preserve the status quo of judicial cooperation?. Journal of Business Law, 2024(6), 513-534.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65977

Book Chapters

Mammadzada, A. (2023). THE REBIRTH OF THE EUROPEAN “ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTION” ISSUE POST-BREXIT. In B. Soyer and A.M. Tettenborn (Ed.), Damages, Recoveries and Remedies in Shipping Law Informa Law /
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63081

Taught Modules

LA-124 Fundamental Principles of International Trade Law

This module will be available only for visiting exchange students from Chinese partner universities.
LA-300 Applied Commercial Law and International Business Practices

Contemporary concerns originating in market and business failures sufficiently indicate the vital importance of business law for accountability and performance. Taking account of the rapid developments in this field, this module offers students an unique opportunity to explore business law on a broad spectrum. It allows for an investigation into new and dynamic issues pertinent to the operation of businesses in the international context, including intellectual assets management, international payment and transactions, the governance of businesses and aspects of insolvency and personal responsibility. Designed to accommodate both legal and commercial perspectives, it allows students to obtain an understanding of cutting edge developments in a number of discrete legal areas.
LACM17 International Commercial Arbitration

International commercial disputes that cannot be otherwise resolved are customarily referred to arbitration. As such, a global network of arbitration organizations and international institutions exist to address references to arbitration. The module examines the arbitration structures which exist to resolve international disputes in the context of commercial arbitration and the associated questions of private international law. The module also examines disputes between foreign investors and host States and in particular looks into the system of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) which enables foreign investors to act directly against the host State where the investment was made. This part of the module introduces the international law relating to foreign investments and discusses the different dispute resolution mechanisms that can be invoked to resolve relevant disputes.
LATM01 Artificial Intelligence in Commerce and Legal Practice

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to the fabric of modern society and is already a staple of commercial organisations and businesses looking to enhance their productivity. It has been used for a variety of reasons, such as the reduction of financial paperwork via the electronicisation of commercial payments (that are now regularly made by computer), and increasingly for the incidence of smart contract payments automatically triggered by a payee¿s computer acting in collaboration with the debtor¿s IT systems. Where goods are ordered automatically (e.g. an industrialist¿s computer hooked up to a component supplier¿s server), they can also give rise to the formation of entirely new contracts. This module will focus on the use of AI within commercial and legal settings. It is often the case that once the technology is put in place issues will arise, such as the question of whether such technology can function within the parameters of existing legal rules. Human rights ¿ even within a commercial framework ¿ must also be considered as part of any analysis concerning the use of AI (notably, for example, the right to privacy). Overall, this module intends to provide an in-depth analysis of AI in the context of existing private legal rules while also exploring its role in society, what legal frameworks need to be developed.
LATM02 Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) and Commerce - Law and Regulation

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is an integral part of the emerging digital transformation taking place within commercial and financial industries. It has the potential to dramatically alter the way businesses operate, providing improved efficiency of current client requirements and opening doors for new services. In simple terms, DLT is a database that is distributed across several independent computing devices (nodes) where changes to data are protected and managed by cryptography and consensus ensuring that data cannot tampered with and that all parties have identical copies that can be considered as a reliable source of truth. This module intends to analyse the legal position of those employing such ledgers in the context of their businesses. To appreciate the potential legal problems emerging, the applications of such ledgers in different areas of commercial law (finance, insurance, shipping) will be studied. The module will then discuss whether any change in private law rules is required to ensure that such ledgers do not create unexpected consequences for relevant parties. Regulators are also actively exploring the need to regulate the use of such ledgers. Regulation is rather challenging in this area due to potential jurisdictional problems, and overly strict regulation could potentially reduce the commercial values of such ledgers. These issues, along with others, will be discussed as part of this module.