Dr Benjamin Hayward

Dr Benjamin Hayward is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation, at the Monash Business School, Monash University. His research interests span international commercial arbitration, the international sale of goods, private international law, and Australian contract, commercial, sales, and consumer law. Dr Hayward has a particular interest in how the applicable law is identified in international commercial arbitration, and the impacts of this for arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism. He is the author of Conflict of Laws and Arbitral Discretion: The Closest Connection Test (Oxford University Press, 2017).