Dr Amer Tabbara

• PhD in international litigation and arbitration, Paris 1 Sorbonne University, Paris, 2018
• LLM in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, London, 2008.
• Masters in International Private & International Commercial Law, University of Assas (Paris II), Paris, 2008.
• BA in Law (Comparative French and Lebanese Law), Lebanese University - French Section (La filière francophone de droit), Beirut 2007.

Dr Amer is an assistant professor in international commercial dispute resolution. Before joining Birmingham University, he was holding a role as an assistant professor in law at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University in Saudi Arabia and practicing law as a dispute resolution lawyer.

• International Oil and Gaz Contract (LLM Program)
• International Commercial Dispute Resolution (LLM Program)

• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• AI and Law

Dr Amer’s principal research interests are in the fields of International Commercial Dispute Resolution and Private International Law. He is the author of several publications in these areas.

His PhD entitled “Group actions in international litigation” published by L’Harmattan (France), addresses complex issues of conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions in the context of international group actions procedures.

Dr Amer has also published several articles in relation to the development of international commercial dispute resolution in the Middle East.  

Dr Amer’s research interest also covers the area of AI and Law.

• Dr Amer is practicing as an independent arbitrator.
• He is a fellow of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators.
• He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Law in the Middle East