Soterios Loizou is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law and Deputy Director of Law Online Programmes at The Dickson Poon School of Law. He completed undergraduate and postgraduate legal studies at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, NYU School of Law, the Institute of International Commercial Law (IICL), Harvard Law School, and the University of Cambridge.

Soterios has served as TTLF Fellow at Stanford Law School, Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellow at the NYU School of Law, and has held visiting faculty positions with Peking University, School of Transnational Law in China, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the University of Ferrara in Italy, and with the University of Nicosia in Cyprus.

For his research, Soterios has been awarded numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize at the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) Young Comparativists Committee (YCC) Fifth Annual Global Conference (2016), the first prize at the international competition organized in conjunction with the MU Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution-American Society of International Law (ASIL), Dispute Resolution Group works-in-progress conference (2017), the Trandafir International Business Writing Competition (2017), the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize by the International Arbitration Club of New York (IACNY) (2020), and the Second Prize at the UNIDROIT Covid-19 Essay Competition (2021).

He has also been admitted to the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), which recognizes his personal commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education.

Soterios is qualified to practice law in both Common Law and Civil Law jurisdictions, namely in the State of New York (USA) and Greece.

Research interests

Soterios’ primary research interests are in the fields of commercial law, maritime law, comparative private law, conflict-of-laws, and dispute resolution. These areas of law are inseparably linked, covering all life-stages of a commercial agreement, ie. from its negotiation and formation, to the performance of the assumed contractual obligations, and the resolution of any disputes arising from such transactions.

In accordance with his academic interests, his research agenda is inherently international and aspires to challenge, revisit, and simplify the present state of the law in an attempt to address omnipresent and future challenges in international trade. Soterios’ current research projects include pieces on the application of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods by US courts, the impact of the blockchain technology on international business transactions and private international law, and an empirical and doctrinal review of the sales and conflict-of-laws regimes in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Selected Publications

• “International Sales Law in Europe: Pitfalls & Opportunities,” 54 Cornell Int’l L. J. _ (2022) (forthcoming)
• “UNIDROIT’s Contribution to the Development of Contract Law” in The Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT __ (John, Köhler & Gulati eds, 2022) (forthcoming)
• “The Due Process as a Limit to Arbitral Discretion in International Commercial Arbitration: The Republic of Cyprus,” in Due Process as a Limit to Arbitral Discretion in International Commercial Arbitration 135 (Ferrari, Czernich & Rosenfeld eds., 2020)
• “The Content of the Applicable Law in International Commercial & Investment Arbitration,” in Conflict of Laws in International Arbitration 443 (Ferrari & Kröll eds., 2nd ed., 2019)
• “Revisiting the ‘Content-of-Laws’ Enquiry in International Arbitration” 78 Louisiana Law Review 811 (2018)
• “Consumer ADR in the Republic of Cyprus” 6 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 126 (2018)
• “Salient Issues of International Sales Law” IICL-JAMS Global Training Series on International Sales Law and Arbitration (2018)
• “International Sale of Goods Contracts” in Diagrams of Special Civil Law 159 (Chiotellis ed., 2014)

Teaching

• Commercial Law
• Private International Law
• International Commercial Arbitration