Editors

About the Editor

Mads Andenas QC is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, the University of Oslo. He has held senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including as Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College, University of London. In 2019 he was appointed an honorary Queen’s Counsel (England and Wales). From the Lord Chancellor's citation:  ‘Professor Mads Andenas is considered a stellar academic and has been recommended for his work in the fields of comparative and international law, in familiarising academic and practising lawyers and the judiciary in this jurisdiction with other systems of law and by encouraging exchanges of views and approaches between common and civil lawyers.’  His research covers international, EU and comparative law, and European and domestic private and regulatory law. He takes part in projects on the system and method of international law, human rights, the relationship between national law and European and international law, the formation of European private law and European and comparative company law and financial market regulation. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention 2009-2015, and is on the The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) list of arbitrators. He is a member of the Curatorium of the African Institute of International Law which is based in Arusha. He was the Secretary General of the Fédération internationale de droit européen (FIDE) 2000–2002. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Sciences-Po and Paris 1 (Sorbonne). He was the Director of the Centre of Corporate and Financial Law and a Senior Research Fellow of Corporate and Commercial Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), School of Advanced Study, University of London from the early 1990s until 2021. He co-founded the LCF in 2020 as a continuation of his work at the IALS.

Maren Heidemann is a founding director of the LCF. She is a qualified German lawyer (Assessor Iuris 1994) and holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham (2005). She is the author of “Transnational Commercial Law” (Hart Publishing) and has been teaching commercial law subjects at universities in the United Kingdom and across Europe since 2006. From 2010 to 2020 she was also a research supervisor and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Since 2018 she has been teaching at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. Her legal practice has involved corporate and private cross border matters including taxation as well as management work for charities. Her philanthropical work includes chairing the “Heidemann Foundations” who issue research funding and support voluntary work with young people. Maren Heidemann's research focusses on cross-border aspects of commercial law. She has published  several dozen books, journal articles and edited collections on a wide range of topics including general theory of merchant law, private international law, international taxation, commercial registers, supply chain law and the role of public international law in cross border business.