Roman KhodykinVisiting ProfessorProfilePublicationsProfileDr Roman Khodykin is Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and a Partner in the London office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. Roman is ranked in legal directories for International Arbitration in the UK, such as the Best Lawyers, the Chambers, and Legal500, including being named as the 2020 "Lawyer of the Year" for International Arbitration by The Best Lawyers. Roman is a Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts (Civil Advocacy)) of the Senior Courts of England & Wales. He is also a Russian qualified lawyer and advocate (admitted to the Moscow Bar). He has practiced in the Russian Federation since 1999 and, until 2012 appeared in courts all over the country. He has the rights of audience before the AIFC Court (Kazakhstan). State Institute of International Relations in 2005. Between 2005 and 2012 Roman was a Senior Fellow, later Associate Professor in Private International Law (aka Conflict of Laws), Civil Procedure and International Trade Law at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Between 2017 and 2023 Roman was a visiting professor in the Centre for Commercial Law at Queen Mary University of London where he taught Commercial Conflict of Laws. He has also lectured at Clare College, Cambridge University, l’Université Paris-Saclay (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin) and Exeter University. In 2015-2018 Roman was an alternative member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration in Paris. He is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international arbitrations, including under the LCIA Rules and the SCC Rules. He is also a member of the editorial board at The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Disputes Management. Find out more on Dr Roman Khodykin's CV [PDF 75KB].ResearchPublications “A Guide to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration”, with Carol Mulcahy, ed. by Nicholas Fletcher QC, Oxford University Press, 2019 Commentary to Chapter IV “Private International Law” of Part 3 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (Statut, Moscow, 2021) – Articles 1194, 1218 and 1220.1 “Arbitration Law of Russia: Practice and Procedure”, Juris Publishing, New York, 2013 “Interaction between Russia and England in Civil Procedure” in European Business Law Review, 2014 “Adverse inferences of the court/arbitral tribunal” in “Arbitration and regulation of international commercial circulation: Russian, foreign and transnational approaches. Liber Amicorum in the honour of the 70th jubilee of Alexander S. Komarov”, Moscow, Statut, 2019 “On the Issue of Class Litigation”, in: “Judicial Reform and Contemporary Problems of civil and arbitrazh procedures development”, Moscow, 2012, pp. 381-390 “Arbitration in Russia: Hot Topic in a Cold Winter” in: “Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation. Fordham Papers 2011” / Ed. by A. Rovine (Leiden-Boston 2012) “Hybrid dispute resolution clauses” in in Bulletin of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation, No 11/2012 “Article 162(1) of the Civil Code RF in the eyes of the English Court: In the footsteps of the case Berezovsky v. Abramovich” in the journal “Zakon”, No 5, May, 2014 “Arbitration assessors: the sign of society’s maturity or an alien element in Russian arbitration process” in Bulletin of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation, No 8/2012 View the full list of publications on Dr Roman Khodykin's CV [PDF 75KB].