The Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL)
When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Where: Hybrid - Room 1.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB + Online
Speaker: Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer
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The Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL): One Year On – What Have We Learnt
Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026, 3:15–4:15 p.m. (UK time)
Location: Room 1.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Format: Hybrid (in person and online)
Speaker: Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer
Chair: Professor John Taylor
The QM–UNIDROIT Institute for Transnational Commercial Law (ITCL), co-directed by Professors Anna Veneziano and Rosa Lastra, presents the QM–UNIDROIT Lecture Series, coordinated by Dr Kamala Dawar. Running from mid-October 2025 to December 2026, the series draws on the expertise of the Institute’s Advisory Board and highlights UNIDROIT’s essential role in harmonising transnational commercial law.
More about the speaker
Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer is Associate Professor of Law at University College London (UCL) and an internationally recognised authority on insurance and reinsurance law. Her research examines the interplay between re/insurance contract law, regulation and soft law, and how insurance can support sustainability, resilience and the energy transition. She was Rapporteur and a member of the Drafting Committee for the UNIDROIT-sponsored Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law.
She is executive editor of The Law of Reinsurance in England and Bermuda and co-editor of MacGillivray on Insurance Law. Her books Insurable Interest and the Law (2020) and Insurance, Climate Change and the Law (2024) both received the BILA Book Prize. The latter also won the InsuranceERM Climate Risk and Sustainability Research of the Year Award. In 2026, she received a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
A qualified solicitor, she previously practised at Clifford Chance and was Reader in Law and Director of the Insurance, Shipping & Aviation Law Institute at Queen Mary. She was Global Law Professor in Insurance Law at KU Leuven (2025/26). She is also a Councillor of AIDA’s Presidential Council and Editor of the BILA Journal. She has given evidence to the House of Lords and served as an observer at COP27 and COP28.