Zachary R. Calo

Zachary R. Calo is Full Professor of Law and Founding Professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar, where he has been a faculty member since 2015. He is also Professor of Law (Adjunct) at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Visiting Professor at The Open University (UK), Central Asia Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan), Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, and Lecturer at the Qatar Olympic Academy. Editor of 2 books and author of 80 articles, he is a leading authority on international dispute resolution, sports law, and religion and law. He previously taught at Valparaiso University School of Law, Notre Dame Law School, and DePaul College of Law in the United States. He also maintains an active legal and dispute resolution practice as Senior Counsel with McNair International (London & Doha), Of Counsel Sports Law with Schelstraete Equine Law (Amsterdam & Doha), and as Co-Founder and International Mediator with Gulf Mediation, a leading boutique provider of commercial mediation services in the Middle East. He is a member of international dispute resolution panels at Sport Resolutions UK and the Qatar Sports Arbitration Tribunal, and is an Officer of the International Bar Association Mediation Committee and Secretary of the Ethics Committee of the International Mediation Institute. A member of the Washington DC Bar and a CEDR-accredited mediator, he previously practiced banking and commercial law with Buckley, LLP. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, B.A. and M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, M.A. from the University of Virginia, and an LLM in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School Law.