Kamalia Mehtiyeva is a Professor of Law at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (France) where she co-directs LLM in international arbitration and international economic litigation. Her teaching and research fields focus on international arbitration law, civil procedure, mutual legal assistance in both civil and criminal matters as well as international enforcement and international sanctions. Kamalia Mehtiyeva is the author of the book “The Notion of Judicial Cooperation” (La notion de coopération judiciaire, LGDJ, t. 597, 2020), awarded the Prize of the French Branch of the International Law Association. She is also author of the annual digest on international mutual legal assistance (“La chronique de cooperation judiciaire internationale”) for the Journal du Droit international (Clunet). She publishes regularly in French, English, Russian, Azerbaijani and Turkish on various issues of international arbitration and procedural law.

Kamalia practices arbitration both as arbitrator and counsel. She 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), in Barbier Mehtiyeva Law, a law firm that she had co-founded, focusing on international arbitration, mutual legal assistance matters as well as INTERPOL proceedings, and currently practices as a Special Counsel in Clay Arbitration in Paris.

Kamalia is also VIAC Ambassador for Azerbaijan.

She is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, President of the Azerbaijan Arbitration Association and co-President of the Turkic Arbitration Association. Kamalia is also member of the scientific-advisory council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan and founder of the Baku Arbitration Centre.