Professor Bernhard Maier is a Visiting Professor in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.

He convenes the highly popular LLM course “Cyberspace Law: Big Data, Algorithmic Governance and Democracy”.

As part of this course, he and his co-convenors focus on the challenges posed to national, private international and public international law concepts as a result of the ubiquity and exponentially increasing relevance of cyberspace in everyday private and public life. The course deals with a wide array of subjects such as the regulation of the internet backbone, critical national infrastructure, jurisdiction in cyberspace, space law, personality rights, the regulation of Big Tech, international trade law and artificial intelligence.

Professor Maier is a Partner and Head of Arbitration at Browne Jacobson LLP in London, where he advises private and sovereign clients on all aspects of public international law, the international law of foreign investment and commercial law. He is also an appointee to the UK Attorney General's Panel for Public International Law and has experience working at the European Commission in Brussels. Professor Maier also sits as an arbitrator.

Professor Maier’s research interests centre around the regulation of artificial intelligence, disputes arising out of critical national infrastructure and the shifting role of public international law as a result of the increased participation of private enterprise in activities previously within the exclusive domain of sovereigns.

Selected publications

• “The Private and Public International Law Dimension of Arbitrations Arising Out of the Hospitality Industry as a Result of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, The Impact of Covid on International Disputes, Brill.
• “How has the Law Attempted to Tackle the Borderless Nature of the Internet?”, International Journal of Law and Information Technology.
• “The Many Identities of the European Union: Exploring the Rival Trade and Investment Ambitions of Organization and Members”, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 13(3) MJIEL 357-388, 2016.
• “A Comparative Analysis of the ECT and BITs in Light of Evolving EU Policy”, The Leading Practitioners’ Guide to International Oil & Gas Industry Arbitration, 2015.
• “The External Dimension of EU Energy Regulation”, Legal Aspects of EU Energy Regulation, Second Edition, OUP, 2015.
• “How has international law dealt with the tension between sovereignty over natural resources and investor interests in the energy sector? Is there a balance?”, International Energy Law Review.