Staff Profile

Myriam is a Lecturer in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her research focuses on the influence of extra-legal factors, especially psychology, in courts and out-of-court processes. She is a Co-Investigator in an ESRC-funded project investigating the influence of sociological and psychological processes on commercial arbitration in Europe. She is also co-editing a book on exploring extra-legal factors in climate adjudication with Dr Melanie Murcott (University of Cape Town) and Dr Emily Webster (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025).

Myriam has a background in both private and public international law. She has also taught Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights Law in the War Studies Department at King’s College London. Myriam is currently teaching European Union Law, Legal Institutions and Methods, and Mediation and Commercial Dispute Resolution at Newcastle Law School. She is also a module leader for Technology and Online Dispute Resolution and Dispute Resolution and Conflict Studies. She is currently supervising the doctoral thesis of Zora Kizilyurek with Professor Bryan Clark.

Prior to joining Newcastle Law School, Myriam completed her PhD in Law at King’s College London, where she was also a Visiting Lecturer and a Research Assistant. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a peer reviewer for the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (OUP) and Transnational Legal Theory (Taylor and Francis).

Undergraduate Modules:

• Legal Institutions and Methods (LLB, Stage 1)
• The UK and EU law (LLB, Stage 1)
• Mediation and Commercial Dispute Resolution (LLB, Stage 3)

Postgraduate Taught Modules:

• Dispute Resolution and Conflict Studies (LLM, Module Leader)
• Technology and Online Dispute Resolution (LLM, Module Leader)

RESEARCH AREAS:

• International Arbitration (Commercial and Investment)
• Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution
• International Economic Law (esp. Investment Law and Arbitration)
• Climate Adjudication
• Extra-Legal Factors in Law (esp. Behavioural Law and Economics)

EDITORIAL WORK:

• Co-editor Adjudicating Climate Change: Exploring Extra-Legal Factors, Melanie Jean Murcott, Myriam Gicquello, and Emily Webster (eds) (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025)
• Peer reviewer Journal of International Dispute Settlement (OUP)
• Peer reviewer Transnational Legal Theory (Taylor and Francis)

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION:

• Current doctoral student: Zora Kizilyurek, supervised with Professor Bryan Clark
• Open for supervision in the following areas:
• Extra-Legal Factors in Adjudication / ADR
• Climate Adjudication
• Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution
• Investment Law and Arbitration

• Articles

  • Gicquello M. Reviewing the Arbitration Act 1996: A Difficult Exercise?. Amicus Curiae 2023, 4 [Series 2](2), 391-411.
  • Gicquello M. The Failures of COP26: Using Group Psychology and Dynamics to Scale Up the Adoption of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Measures. Transnational Legal Theory 2022, 13(2-3), 366-389.
  • Gicquello M. Biased or Not Biased? Arbitral Decision-Making and Arbitrators' Preferences. Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2022, 13(3), 348-369.
  • Gicquello M. The Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Bringing the Findings of Social Psychology into the Debate. Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2019, 10(4), 561-581.

• Book Chapters

  • Gicquello M, Webster E. The Investment Treaty Regime and the Clean Energy Transition. In: Jelena Bäumler, Christina Binder, Marc Bungenberg, Markus Krajewski, Giesela Rühl, Christian J. Tams, Jörg Philipp Terhechte, Andreas R. Ziegler, ed. European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022. Cham: Springer, 2023, pp.235-266.
  • Gicquello M. Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration. In: Schultz T; Ortino F, ed. The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.591-616.