Master construction law and dispute resolution with us!
The International Construction Law & Dispute Resolution Summer School is designed to provide professionals with a comprehensive understanding of international construction law, contract management and dispute resolution in major construction and engineering projects. The programme examines how legal systems shape contractual risk, explores procurement strategies and standard form contracts including FIDIC, NEC and EPC, and addresses the allocation of risk across complex projects. Participants will learn about the practical aspects of contract performance, claims management, delay analysis and quantum assessment. The programme also covers dispute resolution mechanisms including dispute boards, adjudication and international arbitration, as well as the enforcement of arbitral awards.
Master the principles of international construction law, contract management and dispute resolution.
Gain comprehensive knowledge of standard form contracts including FIDIC, NEC and EPC, and risk allocation in complex projects.
Understand how common law and civil law systems shape contract formation and enforcement across jurisdictions.
Develop strategic skills for managing claims, delays, disruption, termination and damages.
Apply forensic delay analysis, quantum assessment and expert methodologies to construction disputes.
Practice-oriented curriculum designed for senior legal, commercial and technical professionals.
Global perspective covering multiple legal systems, jurisdictions and international project frameworks.
Advanced modules on forensic techniques, evidentiary standards and quantum assessment.
Comprehensive coverage of dispute resolution from dispute boards to international arbitration.
Structured networking with leading construction lawyers, arbitrators and industry practitioners.
Five-day intensive summer school format.
Expert-led lectures and interactive workshops.
Case study-driven learning across real-world construction scenarios.
Coverage of emerging technologies in dispute management.
Fellowship certification upon completion.
Our International Construction Law & Dispute Resolution Summer School is led by internationally recognised faculty comprising leading construction lawyers, contract specialists and dispute resolution practitioners. Drawing on extensive experience in major construction and engineering projects across multiple jurisdictions, they provide practical insight and expert direction to help participants develop advanced skills in contract management, claims strategy, delay analysis and dispute resolution.
Partner, Fenwick Elliott
Visiting Professor, King's College London
Expertise: FIDIC Contracts, Construction law, international arbitration, dispute boards and adjudication
Nicholas is a construction, energy, and international arbitration lawyer. He is a solicitor-advocate, chartered surveyor, accredited adjudicator, and mediator. Nicholas sits as an arbitrator and on dispute boards. He acts for contractors, employers, and governments in the building, construction, engineering, infrastructure, transport, energy, oil and gas, and process engineering sectors. Frequently selected to advise on high value complex projects including Hinkley Nuclear Power Plant, T5 Heathrow, Muscat Airport, The Louvre in Abu Dhabi, Expo 2020 in Dubai, CERN’s nuclear research facility, the world’s most leaning building at Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, and substantial hydro power projects (including Africa’s largest hydro power project).
Michael Pogue is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and sits as a Member of Council for the Academy of Experts (MAE).
Michael is based in London and regularly appointed as an independent quantum expert to provide opinion on all types of construction claims in international arbitrations and litigations. He is particularly adept at assessing claims with complex factual matrices such as inflationary impacts, defective works and the re-procurement and completion of works following termination.
Michael is consistently recommended and marked out as a Future Leader in Who’s Who Legal. He is recognised by his client and instructing solicitors as being “extremely thorough in his approach”, “able to see beyond the instructions given and raises matters of importance”; and “approachable, knowledgeable and an asset in the context of on-going litigation or arbitration”. His analysis and opinion have also been described as the “gold standard” by his instructing lawyers.
Michael is also a qualified barrister providing him with a deeper understanding of evidential and procedural aspects when providing expert opinion in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
Margarita Papaioannou is a senior director in the Expert Services practice, based in the London office. She is a civil engineer and delay expert with 13 years of experience in the construction industry, specializing in forensic construction programming, project advisory services and dispute resolution.
Mark specialises in advising on domestic and international construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. He acts for a wide range of clients including contractors, developers, consortiums, investors, and employers, advising on the full lifecycle of a project from its inception to project completion.
Mark has experience in advising on and negotiating amendments to all major standard form construction contracts including the JCT, NEC, FIDIC, LOGIC, IChemE and ICE suites of contracts. He also has considerable experience of drafting and negotiating bespoke construction documents used internationally, including EPC contracts.
Mark is ranked as a key lawyer for non-contentious construction by the Legal 500 UK, and is commended for “working with clients to get deals over the line” and “making himself available, working to deadlines and helping the client achieve successful outcomes”.
Claire King is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP specialising in the resolution of both domestic and international construction, engineering and energy disputes. She has in-depth knowledge of the FIDIC form of contract and has worked across a wide range of sectors within the industry including in relation to power, desal, water / sewage treatment, data centres and nuclear implicated facilities. She is recommended in legal 500 for international arbitration and is an alumni of the King’s MSC for Construction Law for which she came top in her year both years running.
Jatinder has nearly 20 years’ experience in non-contentious domestic and international construction and projects work. He acts for the full spectrum of clients involved in the development process including financial institutions, pension and property funds, government departments, investors, developers, contractors, consultants and tenants, advising from inception and procurement strategies to project completion. Jatinder has been noted as “extremely astute” in The Legal 500 UK guide regarding the development of a waste-to-energy facility in Essex.
Jatinder has broad experience of dealing with and negotiating many standard forms of contract including the FIDIC, LOGIC, JCT, NEC, ICE, IChemE, RIBA and ACE suite of documents. He also has considerable experience of drafting and negotiating bespoke construction and commercial contracts, including EPC contracts, bonds, guarantees, memorandums of understating, heads of terms, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements, framework agreements and facility management contracts.
Giuseppe is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in international arbitration and litigation before the Italian courts.
As an Associate at Fenwick Elliott, he advises and represents clients in both contentious and non-contentious matters, particularly focusing on disputes in the construction and energy sectors.
He holds a postgraduate degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King’s College London. Prior to joining Fenwick Elliott, he trained and practiced at an international law firm in Milan, where he represented clients in the commercial, construction, energy, and insurance sectors in both arbitration and litigation. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bocconi University in Milan.
Giuseppe is a regular contributor to leading publications on construction law and dispute resolution. His recent articles have appeared in the International Construction Law Review, the International Energy Law Review, the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and the Italian journal Rivista Trimestrale degli Appalti.
In 2018, he was awarded the first prize by the European Society of Construction Law for his dissertation “Dispute Boards: A Comparative Study of International Practice”.
David Falkenstern is a managing director in the Expert Services practice, based in the London office. He is a civil engineer with over 20 years of experience in the construction industry. He specializes in providing expert advice and consultation on major construction projects in the areas of programming, programme assessment, planning, productivity, time impact, delay and disruption, with a focus on resolving disputes.
Current President of the Executive Board of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF), Jeremy is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP, the UK’s largest construction law firm and is listed as a leader in his field in Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2021.
An accredited adjudicator and member of the CIArb Adjudication Sub-Committee, Jeremy is the co-author of Understanding the FIDIC Red and Yellow Book: A Clause by Clause Commentary, the third edition of which was published in 2018, and lead editor of Building Contract Disputes: Practice and Precedents. Jeremy is a member of the Board of Examiners on the Construction Law MSc programme at King’s College, and also teaches on the MSc Building Information Modelling Management Programme at Middlesex University.
Alice is a construction lawyer at First Rail in the UK, and has worked as legal counsel for engineering, technology and construction companies and employers including Samsung, Salini (Webuild) APT, Permasteelisa, Daewoo, Eleclink (Eurotunnel), Cimolai (Steelworks), Emitec (UAE), Huawei, ADNOC, ARABSAT. She has experience of the major standard forms of contract including FIDIC, JCT and NEC. Her contentious experience includes Arbitration and Court cases such as: GERDP (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project): value of ICC Arbitration claim 900Million USD (value of contract: 5BN USD); Eleclink v Balfour Beatty (ICC Arbitration claim: 300M GBP).
Her non-contentious experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke contracts including professional appointments, consultants and Sub-Consultants’ appointments, insurances, collateral warranties and negotiating amendments. She conducted mediations on various construction and engineering projects including Renewables, Mining, Dredging, Tunnelling, Cable l Solar panels, Battery Storage (UAE-Saudi Arabia) and cabling, railways, indirect burners, high voltage cables. She as also a part time lecturer at the College of Contract Management.
Murray has enjoyed a diverse and rewarding career in the international construction industry, where prior to joining J.S. Held, Murray was the Founder and Managing Director of Sense Studio Limited. Specialising in dispute avoidance and resolution, he is a FIDIC President’s List international adjudicator and on the arbitration, dispute board, adjudication and mediation panels of CIArb, RIBA, RICS and CEDR, among others, working on significant appointments relating to construction disputes. His verifiable track record in dispute avoidance influences his work as a Dispute Board Member, and he is a Past President of Region 2 of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. In recent years, Murray has been appointed as Dispute Board Member for the €17bn ITER Project in France and also for the High Luminosity Project at CERN and more recently for a large nuclear project under the ICC DB Rules, an embassy project in Central Africa and a power project in West Africa.
He has developed specialist expertise in energy and transport projects, including airports and metro rail projects.
