Biography

Milana Karayanidi holds an LL.M. in International business law from Aberystwyth University, Wales and a B.A. (Honours) in International Law from Kazakh National University named by Al-Farabi. As an undergraduate law student in Kazakhstan, Milana has won a highly competitive fellowship from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State. This has enabled her to go to the USA for a year and study International Business.

Milana has worked as a legal consultant at Deloitte in Kazakhstan, where she consulted foreign firms on carrying out business in Kazakhstan. She has interned at the Hague Conference on private international law, and conducted research relating to the Hague Conventions on international legal and judicial cooperation.

Milana’s doctoral research at Trinity College concerns jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters under the supervision of Dr. Niamh Connolly. Milana’s research aims to understand and critically evaluate similarities and differences of the UK and Russian rules of adjudicative jurisdiction in international commercial contracts. The research seeks to identify the key elements for transaction planning for commercial parties doing business in the UK and Russia and to introduce some new suggestions on improvement of the existing mechanisms of jurisdiction in the UK and Russia

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Professional Qualifications

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Awards

• Scholarship granted by the Hague Academy of International Law (for the Private International Law Session: July 25th – August 12th, 2011)
  Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, 2009
• Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Fellowship (UGRAD) from the United States Department of State, 2004-2005
• T.H.Y.E.S.P.A. scholarship from the Government of Greece to attend the Summer Course in Modern Greek Language, University of Athens, Greece, 2006
• Educational grant awarded by the Ministry of Education in Kazakhstan, 2002-2006

Languages

• English
• Russian
• German

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Research Interests

• Private International Law

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Education Details

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Employment Details

• Stageur, Hague Conference on private international law, Permanent Bureau, 2011

• Legal Consultant, Deloitte, Tax & Legal Department, 2007

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

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Publications

‘Does the European Commission Have Too Much Power Enforcing the European Competition Law?’ (2011) German Law Journal, volume 12, no.6, pp. 1446-1459

‘Internet creates no truly new jurisdictional challenges’ (2011) Law/Technology Journal – World Jurist Association, volume 44, issue 2, pp.1-17

‘Bargaining Power in Multilateral Negotiations on Intellectual Property Rules: Paradox of Weakness’ (2011) The Journal of World Intellectual Property, volume 14, issue 3-4, pp. 265-275

‘Regulability of the Internet’ (2010) Law/Technology Journal - World Jurist Association, volume 43, issue 2, pp.18-27

‘The Nomads moving (on the role of Nominated advisers at London Stock Exchange)’ (May 2007) The Deloitte Times, p.5.

16 opinion articles, The Reflector, newspaper of Mississippi State University (2005) (<www.reflector-online.com>, keyword “Milana”)

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