Franziska Arnold-Dwyer

Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer is an Associate Professor of Law at University College London (UCL). Prior to that position, she was a Reader in Insurance Law, Contract Law and Sustainability and the Director of the Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Before returning to academia, Franziska practised law in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department at Clifford Chance LLP.

Franziska’s research interests are insurance law and insurance solutions, and in particular the intersection of insurance contract law, insurance regulation, risk governance and sustainability. She frequently speak on ‘sustainable insurance’ topics and reinsurance law issues at conferences and in interviews.

Franziska is one of the editors of the next edition of ‘MacGillivray on Insurance Law’ and the executive editor of ‘The Law of Reinsurance and England and Bermuda’ (both leading textbooks; Sweet & Maxwell). Her book ‘Insurable Interest and the Law’ (Routledge, 2020) won the BILA Book Prize. He recently published book ‘‘Insurance, Climate Change and the Law’ (Routledge, 2024) has already attracted the attention of mainstream media and academia. Her papers have been published in the prestigious Modern Law Review, the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal.

She is a committee member of the British Insurance Law Association, a committee member of AIDA Europe, and a member of the drafting committee of the ‘Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law’ (PRICL).