Rate My Professor Zebo Nasirova

Dr. Zebo Nasirova serves as a Lecturer in the School of Law within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Canberra, completing her doctoral thesis in 2019 entitled "Challenges in the Development of International Legal Regimes: Coherence, Interpretation and Diversity." Supervised by Dalma Demeter, Benedict Sheehy, Maree Sainsbury, Jenny Fu, and Bruce Baer Arnold, the thesis addresses critical challenges in the development of international legal regimes, particularly focusing on coherence, interpretation, and diversity. It examines the nature, potential, and problems associated with domestic courts interpreting international law to foster coherent systems. Key issues highlighted include the under-investigation of interpretation processes, the under-theorized relationship between international and domestic law, and the distinct approaches of civil law versus common law judiciaries. Using the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods (CISG) as a case study, the dissertation is divided into theoretical sections on legal coherence, theories of interpretation, and institutions, complemented by positive analyses of interpretations by courts from diverse legal systems. It assesses how interpretative methods contribute to coherent or incoherent regimes, emphasizing the CISG's success as a uniform law blending civil and common law elements, and stresses the need for interpretive rules to prevent domestic principles from undermining uniformity.

Nasirova's research specializations lie in international law, international sales law, and investment law. Her key publications include "Trends and Challenges in the Legal Harmonisation of ISDS" (2019), which discusses shifts in international law-making towards multilateral processes in investor-state dispute settlement, and "The Intersection of Diverse Legal Systems: in the Example of the CISG" (2020), analyzing legal system interactions via the CISG. She also contributed to works on international legal harmonisation. Holding degrees of LLB, LLM from the School of International Law, MLS, and PhD in Law, she has been Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canberra since August 2018, following her doctoral candidature starting in 2015.