About this Event
Date: Wednesday 9 December 2026, 3:00–4:00 p.m. (UK time)
Location: Room 1.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Format: Hybrid (in person and online, Teams link will be emailed on the morning of the event)
Speaker: Professor Djakhongir Saidov – King’s College London
The QM–UNIDROIT Institute for Transnational Commercial Law (ITCL), co-directed by Professors Anna Veneziano and Rosa Lastra, presents the QM–UNIDROIT Lecture Series, coordinated by Dr Kamala Dawar. Running from mid-October 2025 to December 2026, the series shares the expertise of the Institute’s Advisory Board and highlights UNIDROIT’s essential role in harmonising transnational commercial law.
More about the speaker:
Djakhongir Saidov is Professor of Commercial Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, Consultant (Foreign Law) at Helmsman LLC, Advocates and Solicitors, Singapore, and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore. His expertise lies in English and international commercial law, including international sale of goods, remedies for breach of contract, international oil and gas and energy law, expert determination and Dispute Boards. Professor Saidov has published extensively in these areas, including several books (International Sale of Goods Law (Edward Elgar, 2026)); The Law of Damages in International Sales – The CISG and Other International Instruments, 2nd edn (Hart, 2021); Conformity of Goods and Documents – The Vienna Sales Convention (Hart, 2015); Research Handbook on International and Comparative Law Sale of Goods Law (Edward Elgar, 2019; sole editor); Contract Damages: Domestic and International Perspectives (Hart, 2008) (co-editor)), many articles in leading journals, book chapters and specialist publications. Professor Saidov was the Editor of ‘English Sale of Goods Law’ in the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (LMCLQ) International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook (2009-2022) and a Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council on its Opinion No 19 on ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’. He contributes to two leading international commentaries on the UN Sales Convention. Professor Saidov has taught courses and given talks in many universities and institutions, including those in Austria, Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, UK, US and Uzbekistan. He regularly consults law firms and acts as an expert in international commercial arbitration on matters of English and international commercial law.
Event venue & nearby stays
Hybrid - Room 1.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, United Kingdom
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