The School of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Hamish Lal as an adjunct professor in the School of Law. Hamish is a partner in Jones Day, one of the few truly global law firms in the world, with over 41 offices on five continents. Dr Lal ranks Band 1 in Chambers UK and as a leading individual in The Legal 500. He is author of Quantifying and Managing Disruption Claims (second edition due 2016), a member of the Council of the Society of Construction Law since 2006, and editor of the ICE Construction Law Quarterly. He is treasurer of the Adjudication Society. He has a vast range of experience in advising clients in litigation involving hundreds of millions of euros and is committed to both adversarial and non-adversarial resolution of commercial disputes.