Profile

Dr Hailes is a general international lawyer with special interests in energy, investment, environment, and arbitration: inter-State, investor-State, and commercial. He joined the LSE Law School as an Assistant Professor in January 2023.

Dr Hailes was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2017. He holds a BA in Politics and an LLB with Honours from the University of Otago, where he returned as visiting lecturer, and an LLM in International Law (First Class) and a PhD in Law from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.