Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm Editor & Author

Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law of the University of Sheffield. Her teaching and research interests lie in international commercial dispute resolution (including litigation, arbitration and mediation) particularly in connection with shipping disputes as well as maritime law, commercial conflict of laws and comparative law. In 2003 she graduated with an LL.M. in Commercial Law (Distinction) at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh and in 2008 she was granted a Ph.D. at the same institution. She was formerly an Associate Professor of Private International Law at the Catholic University in Uruguay and a shipping practitioner in Uruguay between 1997 and 2002.