Our Team

Dr Nicolette Butler is a specialist in international economic law, with particular expertise in global trade and investment policy. Her research spans international dispute settlement, digital trade, and the trade-environment nexus, including recent work on the legal definition and liberalisation of environmental services. She has published widely in these areas, including in leading journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and the Netherlands International Law Review. She has served as Principal Investigator on a number of academic and policy-facing projects and has worked in both academic and governmental settings, including a role in the UK Department for Business and Trade. She has also held visiting positions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Dr Jasem Tarawneh is a Reader in Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and the Programme Director for the Specialist Intellectual Property Law Programmes. Prior to joining Queen Mary, Jasem lectured at the University of Manchester. He also worked for several years as a corporate lawyer and arbitrator in Europe and the Middle East before joining academia. Jasem has a wide range of publications in leading journals in his areas of research interest, including intellectual property, international dispute resolution, and international trade and investment. He has an established track record of obtaining research funding and has worked as Principal Investigator on several externally funded projects by the British Academy, ASPECT and the ESRC IAA. Jasem held a number of visiting posts in several renowned universities and has worked and continues to work with several distinguished international organisations, such as EUIPO and WIPO.