Maria Panezi

Maria Panezi is an Associate Professor at UNB Law. She received her LLB at the University of Athens in 2005 and her LLM at NYU Law in 2006; she was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2007. She obtained her PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School, during which time she was also a teaching assistant at Osgoode Hall and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She was also a post-doctoral fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Professor Panezi’s research focuses on the interaction between national strategies on climate change and World Trade Organization law. Her teaching interests include international trade law, public international law, contracts, and globalization and the law. She has recently been researching and writing on economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples as they appear in Canada’s free trade agreements. In 2022, Professor Panezi was included in the European Union's list of candidates suitable for appointment as arbitrators and as trade and sustainable development experts in free trade agreement panel proceedings, and she is a member of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement panel and appellate panel roster for New Brunswick.