Biography
Professor Agrégé of Private Law
University Paris-Est Créteil
Attorney at Law and Member of the Paris Bar
Member of ICC International Court of Arbitration
Member of the Arbitration Commission of Membre of the Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP)
Professor Agrégé of Private Law
University Paris-Est Créteil
Attorney at Law and Member of the Paris Bar
Member of ICC International Court of Arbitration
Member of the Arbitration Commission of Membre of the Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP)
President of the Baku Arbitration Centre
President of Azerbaijan Arbitration Association
Association
Co-Chair of the Turkic Arbitration
Association
Kamalia Mehtiyeva, agrégée des Facultés de droit, is a Professor of Law at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (France) where she co-directs LLM International arbitration and international economic litigation. Her teaching and research fields focus on international arbitration law, civil procedure, civil enforcement, international law of enforcement, mutual legal assistance in both civil and criminal matters (extradition, European arrest warrant, INTERPOL proceedings, freeze of assets) as well as espionage law and legal regime of international sanctions.
Professor Mehtiyeva is widely published. Among her various publications, she is author of the annual commentary of decisions related to international mutual legal assistance in the Journal du Droit International (Clunet).
Professor Mehtiyeva is admitted to the Paris bar. Prior to becoming a Professor of law, she practiced in the Public International Law and Arbitration Group of Shearman & Sterling in Paris (2007-2014) and as co-founding partner of Barbier Mehtiyeva Law (2019-2024). She has represented clients in complex cases involving economic sanctions, commercial arbitrations relating to gas pricing, investment arbitrations arising from energy infrastructure construction projects, oil and mining exploration projects as well as in cases at the crossroads of international arbitration, white-collar crime, mutual legal assistance matters such as proceedings before INTERPOL, extradition proceedings as well as applications before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Kamalia also regularly sits as arbitrator. She has acted as arbitrator (sole arbitrator, Chair and co-arbitrator) in cases across various sectors, such as contractual disputes, such as franchise agreement, sales contracts, banking sector, cases involving sanctions, gas pricing disputes, investment disputes (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment) arising namely out of energy infrastructure construction projects as well as investment in oil exploration projects and uranium mining projects.
She is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and member of the Commission of the Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP).
Professor Mehtiyeva is the President of the Azerbaijan Arbitration Association and co-President of the Turkic Arbitration Association.
She is also member of the scientific-advisory council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Kamalia Mehtiyeva is also the President of the Baku Arbitration Centre.
Professor Mehtiyeva works in French, English, Russian, Azerbaijani and Turkish.
EXPERIENCE
XX Representative Cases
Representation of investors in a nephrite mining company against the Russian Federation in ad hoc investment arbitration (UNCITRAL) based on the 2006 Sino-Russian investment treaty.
Representing the majority shareholders of former Yukos Oil Company against the Russian Federation in investment arbitration proceedings (PCA)
Acting as a Sole Arbitrator in ICC arbitration in a dispute regarding exclusive distribution agreement (Turkish Law applicable, arbitration in Turkish))
Representing a State communications authority targeted by European Union restrictive measures against the Council of the European Union in the General Court of the European Union
Representing beneficiary of a discretionary offshore trust in a transnational money laundering case
Representing a political opponent in investment arbitration concomitant to defense against extradition before Criminal Chamber of Paris Court of Appeal and in INTERPOL
Representing 73 cryptocurrency traders (crypto products: futures contracts and leveraged tokens) against a cryptocurrency exchange company in a HKIAC commercial arbitration
Acting as a Sole Arbitrator in ICC arbitration in a contractual dispute between a major airport and a service provider (Turkish Law applicable, arbitration in English)
Acting as Chair of Arbitral Tribunal in the International Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Law applicable, arbitration in Russian)
Representing investors engaged in investment arbitration against State in Interpol proceedings to obtain deletion of Red Notices issued against them by the Respondent State
Representing client in parallel criminal proceedings on allegations of fraud and international arbitration dispute over validity of the allegedly fraudulent contract
EXPERIENCE
10 Representative Cases
Representation of investors in a nephrite mining company against the Russian Federation in ad hoc investment arbitration (UNCITRAL) based on the 2006 Sino-Russian investment treaty.
Representing the majority shareholders of former Yukos Oil Company against the Russian Federation in investment arbitration proceedings (PCA)
Acting as a Sole Arbitrator in ICC arbitration in a dispute regarding exclusive distribution agreement (Turkish Law applicable, arbitration in Turkish))
Representing a State communications authority targeted by European Union restrictive measures against the Council of the European Union in the General Court of the European Union
Representing beneficiary of a discretionary offshore trust in a transnational money laundering case
Representing a political opponent in investment arbitration concomitant to defense against extradition before Criminal Chamber of Paris Court of Appeal and in INTERPOL
Representing 73 cryptocurrency traders (crypto products: futures contracts and leveraged tokens) against a cryptocurrency exchange company in a HKIAC commercial arbitration
Acting as a Sole Arbitrator in ICC arbitration in a contractual dispute between a major airport and a service provider (Turkish Law applicable, arbitration in English)
Acting as Chair of Arbitral Tribunal in the International Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Law applicable, arbitration in Russian)
Representing investors engaged in investment arbitration against State in Interpol proceedings to obtain deletion of Red Notices issued against them by the Respondent State
Representing client in parallel criminal proceedings on allegations of fraud and international arbitration dispute over validity of the allegedly fraudulent contract