Speaker details

Biography

Maya Lester QC is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers in London, specialising in public law, EU law and competition law. She focuses on sanctions law, has acted in most of the leading sanctions cases in the European and English courts and undertakes a wide range of advisory and court work on all sanctions regimes. Maya appeared in Kadi and hundreds of other de-listing cases in the European courts. She founded and co-writes the blog www.europeansanctions.com (the main international sanctions legal resource, with over 7000 followers worldwide). Her practice is very international in nature (she spent three years as MSL & Visiting Scholar at Yale and Columbia law schools). Last year she appeared for the petitioners in Wightman, the ECJ case about the revocability of Article 50 TFEU (the Brexit trigger). Maya has given evidence to four parliamentary inquiries on sanctions and spoken at numerous conferences. The legal directories describe her as “Queen of the Sanctions Bar”.