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Sanam Saidova

Assistant Professor in Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Dr Sanam Saidova is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law. Dr Saidova has a PhD from the University of Nottingham, an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of East Anglia, a Master's degree from the Tashkent Institute of Law (Uzbekistan), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from the University of Birmingham and a bachelor's law degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan).

Expertise Summary

Dr Sanam Saidova specialises in English and international commercial and contract law. Her research and teaching interests lie in the law of contract, secured transactions, personal property, international trade finance and sale of goods. One of Dr Saidova's particular area of expertise concerns the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. She has published extensively on this subject, including a monograph published by Hart Publishing in 2018.

Teaching Summary

Dr Saidova teaches the module on the Law of International Trade Finance on the LLM programme and the Contract Law and Principles of Personal Property modules on the undergraduate programme.

Research Summary

Dr Saidova's research focuses on the law of secured transactions from an international and comparative perspective and the law of international trade finance. Dr Saidova has a particular interest in… read more

Recent Publications

  • 2020. ‘Autonomy in Documentary Credits: Time for a Nullity Exception?’ Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. 603-625
  • 2018. Security Interests under the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment Oxford, Hart Publishing.
  • 2013. 'Repossession and Sale of Charged Aircraft Objects in a Commercially Reasonable Manner under the Cape Town Convention' Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.

Current Research

Dr Saidova's research focuses on the law of secured transactions from an international and comparative perspective and the law of international trade finance. Dr Saidova has a particular interest in the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment.

She welcomes research proposals from potential PhD students in all these areas.

  • 2020. ‘Autonomy in Documentary Credits: Time for a Nullity Exception?’ Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. 603-625
  • 2018. Security Interests under the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment Oxford, Hart Publishing.
  • 2013. 'Repossession and Sale of Charged Aircraft Objects in a Commercially Reasonable Manner under the Cape Town Convention' Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
  • 2010. ‘The Cape Town Convention: The Constitution of an International Interest’ Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. 285-304
  • ‘The Public Service Exemption under the Rail Protocol: The Right Balance between the Public and Private Interests?’. In: The Elgar Companion to the UNIDROIT Instruments (In Press.)

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