Navigating Legal & Commercial Aspects of Sports

Dr. Susan L. Karamanian

Dean, College of Law

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Dr. Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of HBKU's College of Law. She previously held leadership positions at the American University of Sharjah and the George Washington University Law School. Dr. Karamanian is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and was previously Vice President of ASIL. She was also President of the Washington Foreign Law Society.

Dr. Karamanian has lectured at many institutions, including the University of Paris, the OAS Academy of International Law, the Hague Academy of International Law (Director of English Studies), and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. She is a trustee of the Center for American and International Law (CAIL) and a director of Texas Appleseed. Dr. Karamanian is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, the American Bar Foundation, and the Texas Bar Foundation.

Dr. Zachary R. Calo

Professor, College of Law

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Zachary R. Calo is Professor of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is also Research Scholar in Law and Religion at Valparaiso University, Fellow at Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University (UK), and Professor (Adj.) at Notre Dame Law School Australia.

He has taught at Valparaiso University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, DePaul University College of Law, and Hangdong International Law School (South Korea), and been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. He practiced law at BuckleySandler, LLP in Washington, DC.

Dr. Damilola S. Olawuyi

Associate Professor

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Damilola S. Olawuyi is an Associate Professor of Law at HBKU College of Law. He is also Chancellor’s Fellow and Director of the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Afe Babalola University, Nigeria.

Professor Olawuyi has practiced and taught law in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York, China University of Political Science and Law and senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In 2019, he was a Herbert Smith Freehills visiting professor at Cambridge University. He was formerly an international energy lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP where he served on the firm’s global committee on energy investments in Africa. He has delivered lectures on energy law in over 40 countries.

Dr. Barry Solaiman

Assistant Professor

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Barry Solaiman is an Assistant Professor at HBKU Law School. In 2017, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge which evaluated political corruption and lobbying issues in the UK. His research has been presented to the Centre for Public Law at Cambridge and the British Association of Comparative Law at Oxford. He worked abroad in Hong Kong as a teacher in 2013, holds an LLM in Commercial Law from Durham University (2012), an LLB from Newcastle University (2010), and was called to the London Bar in 2011.

His experience extends beyond the confines of academia having assisted Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe on the Lobbying Transparency Bill [2016/17] which he drafted amendments to. He also assisted the British Academy on a report pertaining to a potential British Bill of Rights, and liaised with experts throughout Europe when compiling a database covering the laws on the funding of political parties for the Department of Sociology at Cambridge.