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 the LLM International Arbitration and International Economic Litigation. Her teaching and fields of research 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 warrants, INTERPOL proceedings, freezing 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 as a Special Counsel at Clay Arbitration (since 2025). 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.
Professor Mehtiyeva 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, franchise agreements, sales contracts, banking sector, cases involving sanctions, gas pricing disputes, investment disputes (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment) arising notably 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, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Baku Arbitration Centre.
