Dr Michael Reynolds is a Senior Law Lecturer at University of East London teaching professional skills and international commercial arbitration. He is also a Visiting Professor in Dispute Resolution and Arbitration at BPP University Law School. He is a solicitor by profession and a practising Chartered Arbitrator. He is a member of the Atlantic Council (UK) and a former visiting senior research fellow in international relations, international history, and law at the LSE. He was also an academic visitor at Oxford. He has written articles on arbitration, civil justice and recently on international relations and spoken at conferences in Oxford and Cambridge. He has written a number of law books for practitioners as well as two recent books on dispute settlement between states: Instruments of Peacemaking 1918-1941: The Failure of Diplomacy (Hart, Oxford, 2026) and Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914 (Hart, Oxford, 2021, and 2023)