Dr. Brooke Marshall

Biography

Brooke Marshall is a multilingual academic lawyer and writer with over a decade of experience in Comparative Law, Private International Law, and International Commercial Law. Her work explores how legal systems respond to challenges confronting individuals as they work, transact, migrate, litigate, and fall in love across borders. Currently, Brooke's research projects examine the intersections of private international law with migration, employment, civil procedure, and assisted reproduction. As an Associate Professor in Oxford's Faculty of Law and a Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, she leads the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in Law and is responsible for teaching English Contract Law. Brooke serves on the Management Committee of the Faculty’s Institute of European Comparative Law (IECL) and is a trustee of St Edmund Hall. An author of 'Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses', published by Oxford University Press in 2023, she has contributed numerous academic articles and policy submissions. Brooke holds a Doctor of Laws (summa cum laude) from the University of Hamburg, a Master's degree from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts/Law (Hons) from the University of Queensland. She is a member of various academic societies and has held visiting positions at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and UNIDROIT. In addition to her work at Oxford, she co-teaches a course annually at Sciences Po Law School in Paris on Transnational International Litigation for LLM students. Brooke is fluent in French, proficient in German, and can speak Spanish at a basic level.

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