PETER Quayle
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Legal Practitioner
Remote
Specialist in the law, governance and effectiveness of international organizations
Jan. 2021 – present
Commonwealth Secretariat
London
Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal
Jul. 2021 – present
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Beijing
Chief Counsel, Corporate, Office of the General Counsel
Oct. 2016 – Dec. 2020
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development London
Associate Director, Senior Counsel, Office of the General Counsel
Mar. 2012 – Oct. 2016
United States Department of Justice London
Legal Advisor, Office of Foreign Litigation, Civil Division European Office Dec. 2004 – Mar. 2012
Top-20 Law Firms London
Trainee, then Assistant Solicitor, Dispute Resolution & Litigation Department Sep. 1999 – Jan. 2003
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Teaching & Research:
• Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Visiting Scholar, 2025
• University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Visiting Fellow, 2021
• Peking University Law School, Visiting Professor of International Organizations Law, 2017 – 2022
• University of Notre Dame, London Law Programme, Adjunct Associate Professor, 2006 – 2016
Books, Chapters & Articles:
• ‘The Modern Multilateral Bureaucracy: What is the Role of International Administrative Law at
International Organizations?’, in Peter Quayle (ed.), The Role of International Administrative Law at International
Organizations , Brill Nijhoff (2020)
• The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations (ed.), Brill Nijhoff (2020)
• International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution , with Xuan Gao (eds.), Brill Nijhoff
(2019)
• Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions , with Xuan Gao (eds.), Brill Nijhoff (2018)
• ‘Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)’, with Xuan Gao in Rüdiger Wolfrum (dir.), Max Planck
Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of
Law), Oxford University Press (2018)
• ‘Legal Advisers and International Organizations: The Convergence of Interior and Exterior Legal
Obligations’, in Andraž Zidar and Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds.), Contemporary Roles of Legal Advisers in International
Law , Brill Nijhoff (2016)
• ‘Treaties of a Particular Type: The ICJ’s Interpretative Approach to the Constituent Instruments of
International Organizations’, Leiden Journal of International Law , Cambridge University Press (2016)
Series Editor:
• Editor-in-Chief, Yearbook of Legal Practices and International Organizations, Brill Nijhoff (forthcoming)
Guest Lectures:
• University of Oxford, 2023 and 2014; Peking University Law School, 2022; Indian Society of International
Law, 2022; School of Transnational Law, Peking University, Shenzhen, 2021 and 2018; China Foreign
Affairs University, 2019, 2018 and 2017; University of Amsterdam, 2019; National University of
Singapore, 2019; Korea University, 2018; University of Hong Kong, 2017; International Law Association,
British Branch, 2016 and 2013; and UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2015.
EDUCATION
• LLM, Public International Law, University College London (University of London), 2003 – 2004
• Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, 1998 – 1999
• Diploma in Advanced Study, Law, Oxford Brookes University, 1997 – 1998
• BA (Hons) and MA, Modern History, New College, University of Oxford, 1994 – 1997
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PKU Summer School International
