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Dr Ronan Feehily BComm, LLB, LLM, MBA, PhD, Solicitor (Ireland, Northern Ireland, England & Wales), FCIArb, AM CEDR

Job title: Associate Professor of Law, Durham University
Country: United Kingdom

Membership type: Fellow membership
Primary branch: London
Secondary branches: North East
Disciplines: Arbitration, Mediation, Adjudication, Other dispute resolution

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Durham University
The Palatine Centre, Durham University
Stockton Road
DH1 3LE

Personal bio

Dr Feehily is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, CEDR Accredited Mediator and Member of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association. He practices as a commercial arbitrator and mediator in addition to his role as Associate Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University. An experienced commercial lawyer, he has worked with a large Irish corporate law firm and as in-house legal counsel with a global FinTech company. An award winning researcher, Dr Feehily has co-authored books on contract law, company law, and commercial law and the legal system. He is the author of ‘International Commercial Mediation: Law and Regulation in Comparative Context’ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2022) (www.cambridge.org/9781108798914). The book is recognised as the leading treatise on this emerging area of international commercial law, as reflected in the positive reviews it has received from leading academics on both sides of the Atlantic. He has published articles on various aspects of commercial dispute resolution in leading law journals including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Arbitration International, the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs, the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, the South African Law Journal, the Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, the Stellenbosch Law Review, the Irish Journal of Legal Studies, the Hibernian Law Journal and the International Journal of Legal Education. His peer-reviewed journal articles are available at https://wwwgrupolpa.academia.edu/RonanFeehily