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Dr Michael Reynolds PhD(Law), LLM, MSc, FCIArb.

Charetred Arbitrator and Visiting Professor of Dispute Settlement and Arbitration
Job title: Solicitor, Chartered Arbitrator, and Senior Law Lecturer.
Country: United Kingdom
Membership type: Chartered Arbitrator
Primary branch: East Anglia
Secondary branches: London
Disciplines: Arbitration

Personal bio

40 years construction, commericial, international arbitration and litigation experience including international arbitrations as a solicitor and as an arbitrator whether as President and as a sole arbitrator. Appointed in numerous complex construction and commercial cases and appointed as an arbitrator by the Law Society.

Currently also a Visiting Professor in Dispute Settlement and Arbitrtaion at BPP University Law School in London and also Module Leader in International Commercial Arbitration and Professional Skills at the University of East London.

Member of the London Court of Internatuional Arbitrtaion
Member of the Institute for Foreign Affairs.
Member of Atlantic Council (UK)

Contributor to History of the Technology and Construction Court (Hart 2025)

Author of several professional law books on expert evidence, construction litigation, arbitration and partnerships disputes.

Most recent publications on international law and arbitration: Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914: The Failure of Diplomacy (Hart Publications Oxford, 2021)
Instruments of Peacemaking 1918-1941: The Failure of Diplomacy (Hart Publications ,Oxford, 2026)

Former Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Departments of Law, International History (2008-2009)
Academic Visitor, Socio-Legal Centre, University of Oxford 2010-2014)
Visiting Fellow Department of International History 2019-2021) and International Relations (Security and Statecraft Cluster) London School of Economics (2022-2025)