Brooke Marshall

Dr Brooke Marshall is a multilingual academic lawyer and writer, with more than a decade of experience in Comparative Law and Private International Law. Her work explores how different legal systems respond to challenges confronting people when they work, transact, have disputes, migrate, or fall in love across borders. Brooke’s current research projects examine the intersections between private international law and other fields, namely, employment, international arbitration, and assisted reproduction.

She is an Associate Professor in Oxford’s Faculty of Law and a Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall. In the Faculty, Dr Marshall teaches Conflict of Laws and Reproduction and Parenthood in the BCL graduate course. She currently leads the undergraduate and graduate teaching program in Law, as a Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall. In that role, she is also responsible for teaching English Contract Law and Roman Law. Dr Marshall serves on the Management Committee of the Faculty’s Institute for European and Comparative Law (IECL) and as a trustee of St Edmund Hall.

Brooke is the author of ‘Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses’, for which she was awarded the 2025 Inner Temple New Authors' Book Prize, and of academic articles and policy submissions. She holds a Dr iur (summa cum laude) from the University of Hamburg, an MA from the University of Oxford, and a BA/ LLB (Hons) from The University of Queensland. 

She is a member of the IACL, Société Législation Comparé, ELI, EAPIL and AAPrIL, and has held a number of visiting positions, including at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and UNIDROIT. Alongside her work at Oxford, she co-teaches a course annually at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, on Transnational and International Litigation in the LLM on Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement.

Brooke speaks French fluently, German proficiently, and Spanish like a three-year-old.