Professor Kamalia MEHTIYEVA

Kamalia Mehtiyeva, agrégée des Facultés de droit, is a Professor of Law at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (France) where she co-directs LLM International arbitration and international economic litigation. Her teaching and research fields focus on international arbitration law, civil procedure, civil enforcement, international law of enforcement, mutual legal assistance in both civil and criminal matters (extradition, European arrest warrant, INTERPOL proceedings, freeze of assets) as well as espionage law and legal regime of international sanctions.

Professor Mehtiyeva is widely published. Among her various publications, she is author of the annual commentary of decisions related to international mutual legal assistance in the Journal du Droit International (Clunet).
Professor Mehtiyeva is admitted to the Paris bar. Prior to becoming a Professor of law, she practiced in the Public International Law and Arbitration Group of Shearman & Sterling in Paris (2007-2014), as co-founding partner of Barbier Mehtiyeva Law (2019-2024) and currently serves as Special Counsel at Clay Arbitration. She has represented clients in complex cases involving economic sanctions, commercial arbitrations relating to gas pricing, investment arbitrations arising from energy infrastructure construction projects, oil and mining exploration projects as well as in cases at the crossroads of international arbitration, white-collar crime, mutual legal assistance matters such as proceedings before INTERPOL, extradition proceedings as well as applications before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Kamalia also regularly sits as arbitrator. She has acted as arbitrator (sole arbitrator, Chair and co-arbitrator) in cases across various sectors, such as contractual disputes, such as franchise agreement, sales contracts, banking sector, cases involving sanctions, gas pricing disputes, investment disputes (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment) arising namely out of energy infrastructure construction projects as well as investment in oil exploration projects and uranium mining projects.

She is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and member of the Commission of the Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP).

Professor Mehtiyeva is the President of the Azerbaijan Arbitration Association and co-President of the Turkic Arbitration Association.

She is also member of the scientific-advisory council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Kamalia Mehtiyeva is also the President of the Baku Arbitration Centre.

Professor Mehtiyeva works in French, English, Russian, Azerbaijani and Turkish.