Fritz Brand has been a judge of the Qatar International Court since 2019.

Immediately after receiving his LL.B in 1972, he was appointed as senior lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, where he taught until the end of 1976. In 1977, he joined the Cape Bar where he practiced as an advocate until September 1992. During that period, he served on the Cape Bar Council for about ten years. In 1989, he received his letters patent as a senior counsel. In 1992, he was appointed as a judge of the High Court in Cape Town. After serving as an acting judge of appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein in 2000, he was appointed permanently to that court. In 2010, he was appointed as an acting judge to the Constitutional Court for two terms, retaining his permanent position on the Supreme Court of Appeal bench. Since his retirement from that Court in 2015, he has been appointed to the Appeal Court of Botswana and to the Supreme Court of Fiji - positions which he still holds.

Tan Sri Nallini Pathmanathan’s career has been defined by her expertise in both public law and private law, with a lasting impact on Malaysia’s jurisprudence. 

Elevated to the Bench in 2007 as a Judicial Commissioner, she served at the Criminal Courts of the High Court of Shah Alam before her appointment as a High Court Judge in 2009. At the High Court, she played a pivotal role in the Commercial Courts and the newly established Admiralty Court, building Malaysia’s reputation as a hub for commercial litigation. Her judgments during this period set critical precedents in corporate insolvency and maritime law. 

Her elevation to the Court of Appeal in 2014 marked a deepening expertise in appellate commercial law, where she shaped key legal principles in corporate disputes. In 2018, she was elevated to the Federal Court of Malaysia, the nation’s apex court, where she has since delivered landmark rulings in constitutional, commercial, and public law matters.

Beyond Malaysia, Tan Sri Nallini actively engages in global legal discourse. As Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Judges’ Forum and a member of the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC), she helps shape international best practices for commercial dispute resolution. Her commitment to legal education is reflected in her role as Patron of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA).
 

Dr. Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi is the Dean of College of Law at Qatar University (QU), and a founding faculty member of the College of Law. He is a registered lawyer with the Qatari Bar. He was seconded from QU to the Amiri Diwan as a legal counselor for the Minister of State for the Council of Ministers Affairs. He holds a doctorate degree in law (DPhil) from the University of Oxford. His thesis questioned the preference of joint venture agreements in the Qatari gas industry. He holds a Master degree in law (LLM) from Harvard University, and he returned to Harvard as a Visiting Scholar in 2010. He was among the first QU law graduating class, in 1994, to receive the Bachelor of law degree (LLB) after which he was the first teaching assistant (TA) who joined the then Department of Law (now College of Law). He is also an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar (Washington DC) and the Cornell University Public Sector Leadership Program, as part of the first the Arabic cohort through the UN’s ESCWA.