Dr Catherine Pedamon

Catherine Pédamon, DEA (Panthéon-Assas), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Westminster Law School), SFHEA, is currently Programme Director of the Commercial Pathways LLM courses, and a Senior Lecturer at Westminster Law School, University of Westminster (London). She is admitted to the New York and Paris bars.

Her research interests relate to international trade law, business and human rights, particularly sustainability in agri-food supply chains, mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as comparative contract law, with a focus on commercial contracts and the influence of legal culture on contract law. 

Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Contract Law from the University of Westminster, an LLM degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright and French Foreign Ministry scholar, and a DEA from the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris).  Before undertaking an academic career at the University of Texas at Austin, she qualified as an avocat in France and a lawyer in New York, and practised in major law firms, including with Sullivan & Cromwell (New York), Gide Loyrette Noel (Paris), and Allen & Overy (London). 

At Westminster Law School, Catherine teaches international trade law, business and human rights and comparative law.

Catherine Pédamon is researching in the fields of International Trade Law, Business and Human Rights, particularly sustainability in agri-food supply chains, mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as Comparative Contract Law, with a focus on commercial contracts and the influence of legal culture on contract law. International Corporate Governance. 

She has published in these fields, including recently the ILA White Paper on Business and Human Rights, with Humberto Cantu Rivera, written on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the International Law Association (2023). Forthcoming publications include ‘Sustainability in Food Supply Chains’ and ‘The Reasonable Person in English and French Contract Law: Les Faux Amis’. 

She published articles on the Impact of Covid-19 on Contractual Performance in the European Review of Private Law (2021) with Radovesta Vassileva, and The 'Duty to Cooperate' in English and French Contract Law: One Channel, Two Distinct Views in the Journal of Comparative Law. (2019) This article examines the role and scope of the 'duty to cooperate' as well as its relationship with good faith in English and French law in light of the Yam Seng case.

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.