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Centre for Private and Commercial Law (PCL)

Our people

Find out more about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Iris Benohr

Professor

Research interests

  • Competition and Consumer Law
  • Financial Law, Digitalisation & new Technologies
  • Greenwashing and Climate Litigation

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: i.benohr@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Jingzhong Chen

Research interests

  • Contract Law
  • Contract Theory
  • Political Philosophy

Dr Liang Zhao

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Maritime law
  • Contract and commercial law
  • Insurance law

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.zhao@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Miss Madison Stevens LLB, LLM

Research interests

  • Maritime Law
  • Private Commercial Law
  • International Law

Dr Michail Risvas

Lecturer in Law

Research interests

  • Public International Law
  • International Arbitration
  • International Economic Law and World Trade Organization Law

Accepting applications from PhD students

Mr Paraskevas Rodosthenous

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Corporate Governance 
  • Company Law

Email: p.rodosthenous@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Stephanie Law

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • European Union Law
  • Consumer Protection
  • Private International Law and European Civil Procedure

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.law@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Miss Tengjiao Xu LLB, LLM

Research interests

  • International Trade Law
  • Maritime Law
  • Electronic Commercial Law

Email: tx1u21@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Xinzhe Qiao

Research interests

  • Shipbuilding contracts
  • Guarantees
  • Relational contracts