Rate My Professor Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm

Professor Ruiz Abou-Nigm has authored the monograph The Arrest of Ships in Private International Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) and edited Diversity and Integration in Private International Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). She co-edited The Private Side of Transforming our World: UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law (Intersentia, 2021). Recent publications include ‘Circular Fashion and Legal Design: Weaving Circular Economy Threads into International Contracts’ (2024, co-authored with Dr Antonia Sommerfeld, winner of the José María Cervelló Business Law Prize), ‘Iconic asymmetries of our times: “Super Highways” and “jungle tracks” in transnational access to justice’ (Journal of Private International Law, 2025), and ‘Private international law's inter-systemic thinking in global legal education’ (Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, 2024). She holds prominent appointments as President of the European Law Faculties Association (elected 2023), Research Director of the Law Schools Global League (appointed 2025), member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (appointed 2024), and member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (appointed 2026, nominated by the Scottish Government). Professor Ruiz Abou-Nigm has delivered lectures on private international law and sustainable development at Ocean University, Wuhan University, and Peking University in China.