Teaching Staff and IISTL Members
Dr Oğulcan Ekiz BA (Bahcesehir), LLM, PhD (QMU)
Dr Andrew Iwobi LLB (Jos), B.L (Nigerian Law School), PhD (Birmingham) Having taught in one of the best law schools in Nigeria, Dr Iwobi has been with the School of Law at Swansea University since 2004.
Monica Kohli Senior Lawyer, Gard. President, WISTA UK
Monica Kohli is a senior solicitor specialising in maritime law. She is dual qualified in India and in England & Wales and has been practising shipping and trade law for the past two decades; as a barrister
Oğulcan is a lawyer from Turkey. He graduated with distinction from Queen Mary’s Intellectual Property Law LLM
Program where he was awarded a Queen Mary Research Studentship (2019-22), and was previously the recipient of the BLACA/Stationers Bursary Award (2017). He completed his PhD in 2023 on the (Impossible) Journey of Photography: How Copyright Affects the Meaning-Making in the Process of Circulation. His research focuses on copyright law’s impact on the recontextualisation of photography, on which he has already published several journal articles. Oğulcan also publishes and exhibits his works of photography and photo-collages.
in India, and as a solicitor in the UK. For the last 13 years she has been a senior lawyer in Gard, the largest of the Protection and Indemnity Clubs, advising ship owners, charterers and traders on legal issues pertaining to shipping and trade worldwide. She is currently President of the “Women in Shipping and Trade Association” (WISTA UK) and the Chair of the Indian Maritime Association UK (IMA UK). She is also a Maritime Skills Commissioner, and a trustee on the board for organisations, focusing on education and environmental law.
His main specialisms lie in the field of finance and property law, but his research interests also extend to trust law, the law of succession and land law. He currently teaches on our Mobile and Other Assets Finance Law, E-Commerce, and Oil and Gas Law: Contracts and Liabilities modules.
Professor George Leloudas BCL (Athens), LLM (Bristol, McGill), PhD (Cantab), Solicitor of the Supreme Court England & Wales (Non-Practising), Attorney at Law (Athens, Greece), Employability Director for Shipping and Trade LLM Programmes
Peter Macdonald-Eggers KC LLB (Syd), LLM (Cantab), Visiting Fellow
Dr Aygün Mammadzada LLB (Baku State), LLM, PhD (Soton)
Peter Macdonald-Eggers KC is a barrister, practising at 7 King’s Bench Walk. He specialises in all aspects of commercial law, with a particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, shipping and transport, energy,
Aygün joined Swansea in 2022. She previously worked as a part-time Lecturer at Bournemouth University, a TA at Southampton and a Lecturer at Baku State University.
Professor Leloudas joined the School of Law after working as a solicitor at Gates and Partners in London where he advised on aerospace liability and airlines’ regulatory matters. He holds two master’s (Bristol and McGill) and a PhD from Cambridge University. He is an avid researcher in air law, and teaches on our Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air, International Commercial Arbitration, and Marine Insurance modules. Professor Leloudas is also Co-Director of our Employability Skills in the Commercial and Maritime Industry module.
commodities and international trade, financial services, professional negligence, and international investment projects. He regularly appears before the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal, and in commercial and international arbitrations. Peter has also appeared before Courts in other jurisdictions in numerous high-profile cases. He is co-author of Good Faith and Insurance Contracts, 2nd edn (LLP, 2004) and Deceit: The Lie of the Law (Informa, 2009). He is also a contributing editor of Chitty on Contracts.
She has been awarded Max Planck research grants and Konrad Zweigert scholarships, and is the Managing Editor of Global Constitutionalism, published by the Cambridge University Press. She is a qualified lawyer in the Azerbaijan Republic, and has worked in the Azerbaijani Ministry of Education, and the International and Erasmus+ Exchange Programme of the European Commission.
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