David Bigge is an attorney-adviser at the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes, representing U.S. interests in NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitrations and before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. He has also advised the U.S. government on legal issues related to commercial arbitration. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Bigge practiced in the international disputes groups at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Dechert LLP, with a focus on international arbitration and litigation for and against state entities.
He focuses his practice on international dispute resolution, including international commercial arbitration and litigation for and against foreign sovereigns. Mr. Bigge has participated in proceedings before U.S. state and federal courts, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He has experience with clients from a variety of industries, including the emerging markets investment sector, the global steel industry, and the telecommunications industry.
Professional Activities
Mr. Bigge is a member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he served as a member of the Foreign and Comparative Law Committee. Mr. Bigge is a member of the AAA International Centre for Dispute Resolution "Young & International" group. Mr. Bigge also serves as coach for the Harvard Law School Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Competition Team, and is on the College of Arbitrators and Judges of the Foreign Direct Investment Moot.
Bar and Court Admissions
- Member, New York Bar
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Milena Dordevic was born in 1977 in Belgrade. She graduated from University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 2000, finished her master studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2002 and is currently finishing her doctorate thesis from the area of International Sales Law. In 2005 and 2008 she was awarded Max Planck Institute for International Private and Comparative Law stipend where she has spent couple of months for research.
Milena Ðordevic is currently a lecturer at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where she teaches International Commercial Law, EU Trade Policy and Legal English. She also does consulting work for domestic companies, institutions and international organizations including the USAID, GTZ and IFC and is listed as arbitrator on the List of arbitrators of the Foreign Trade Arbitration attached to the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Foreign Trade Arbitration Court attached to Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro. As a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh she taught a course on International Commercial Arbitration in fall 2010.
Associate Professor at the University of Utrecht and Senior researcher (Ph.D in 1998) at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut. European Private International law, European Procedural and Insolvency Law and International Commercial Arbitration are the fields of her particular interest and expertise. Ms Lazic is one of editors of the legal journals European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) and of the Croatian Arbitration Yearbook (CAY)
Mr. Campbell has been Assistant Director at the Center for International Legal Studies since 2002, prior to which he served as a law editor at CILS and as a researcher at the Department of International Law at Salzburg University (under Prof. Schreuer). After receiving his LL.B from Edinburgh University (1987) and an LL.M from McGeorge School of Law (1988), he commenced practice in the Legal Department of Philips Petroleum Europe/Africa, and later with Shakespeares Solicitors in Birmingham, England. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1992 and has held adjunct professorships at Suffolk University Law School (since 2004) and Salzburg University (2001-2004, 2007).
Lord Daniel Brennan QC specialises in commercial law, international business issues, public and private international law, and international arbitration. He is a Deputy High Court Judge and Crown Court Recorder. During 1999, he was Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales. He is a former member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and an ex-Chairman of the Personal Injury Bar Association and the Bar of England and Wales. In May 2000, the Queen appointed him a life peer and a member of the House of Lords. Lord Brennan is currently the Bar representative on the Council of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the LCIA and the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa. He is on the panel of consultants to the World Bank for Latin America and South and East Asia. Lord Brennan specializes in commercial law, international business issues, public and private international law, and international arbitration. He has a high profile environmental, product liability and medical negligence practice involving multi-party actions. He also has an extensive international litigation and advisory practice involving bilateral investment treaties and commercial and energy work. Lord Brennan graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Manchester University, where subsequently he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2000.
Madhu graduated from the University of Warwick in 2011 with a BA in Law and Business Studies (Qualifying Degree) and is due to commence a training contract with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London
Dr. Federico Ortino is a Reader in International Economic Law at King's College London. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law and Founding Committee member of the Society of International Economic Law. Previously, he was the Director of the Investment Treaty Forum (ITF) at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York; Legal Officer in the Investment Division at UNCTAD; Adjunct Professor at the University of Florence and Trento. He is a qualified attorney in Italy and in the state of New York. Dr Ortino's research interests lay primarily in international economic law, in particular, WTO law, international investment law and arbitration, and EC law. Dr Federico Ortino holds a law degree from the University of Florence, School of Law (magna cum laude), a master of laws from Georgetown University Law Center (with distinction) and a doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence.
Antonio R. Parra is Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London, and Secretary General of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. From 1999 to 2005, he served as the first Deputy Secretary-General of the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and from 1990 to 1999 he was Legal Adviser, ICSID. His earlier positions include Senior Counsel, ICSID; Senior Counsel, World Bank; Counsel, World Bank; Assistant Legal Counsel, OPEC Fund for International Development; and Research Staffer, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Mr. Parra is Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review Foreign Investment Law Journal, an Editorial Board member of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and a Consultative Member of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He obtained his law degrees from the University of Manchester and University College London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the author of 34 articles and book chapters on investment law, arbitration and development finance topics
Antonida Netzer (née Alibekova) is currently with the Deutsche Institut for Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS) in Cologne, Germany and used to be a law editor for the CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES. She has also been a legal consultant at Salpius Law Office in Salzburg, Austria. Previously, she worked as an associate at Capital Legal Services International LLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Netzer obtained her law degree from Mari State University (Russia) and studied at the Law Schools of Wayne State University (Detroit), Central European University (Budapest) and Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester). She completed her JD thesis on international commercial arbitration at the University of Salzburg.
Arno Eisen studied law at Humboldt University and University of Erlangen. His main field of interest is International Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Tax Law and International Commercial Arbitration. He is writing his Ph.D. thesis at Humboldt University and working as research assistant at the Institut für Anwaltsrecht.
Dr. Freya Baetens is Assistant Professor at Leiden University where she teaches Public International Law, International Economic and Environment Law to LL.M. as well as B.A. students. Apart from her academic activities, she is active in international legal practice as tribunal assistant for several investor-State arbitration panels and cooperates in the drafting of memorials and expert opinions in international dispute settlement. She completed her doctoral thesis at Cambridge University as W.M. Tapp scholar, Hon. European Trust fellow and Cambridge European Society Fellow, under the supervision of Prof. James Crawford, on the topic of “Nationality-based discrimination in public international law, with a specific focus on human rights, trade and investment law”. Previously, she obtained the Cand.Jur./Lic.Jur. degree (BA/MA equiv.) magna cum laude at Ghent University and the LL.M. degree with honours (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) at Columbia University (BAEF and Fulbright Fellow). She is a member of the ILA Committees on Islam and international law; State insolvency; and biotechnology. Freya Baetens has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and is an editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City and an International Law Certificate from The Hague Academy of International Law in The Hague, Netherlands. Master of Laws with concentration in Free Trade Agreements and International Investment Law in American University, Washington, DC. Participated (competitor, coach and judge) in the Jessup Moot Court Competition, and in international criminal law and human rights moot courts (judge) in Mexico City and Washington DC. A significant portion of professional practice focuses on foreign investment regulations, and has participated in investment (NAFTA Chapter 11) and commercial (ICC) arbitration.
January-March 2009: Seconded as counsel to the Casework team of the London Court of International Arbitration;
July 2008 - present: Associate, International Arbitration Group, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, London;
July 2000 – July 2008: Associate, CMS Cameron McKenna, Bucharest, Romania (including also term with Hayhurst Robinson, an international law firm based in Central and Eastern Europe, prior to its international merger with CMS Cameron McKenna)
August 1999 - June 2000: LL.M Degree in International Business Law, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (chartered by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, United States), English-language international programme offering advanced training in civil and common law systems. LL.M thesis: “The Relevance of the Seat of Arbitration in International Commercial Arbitration.”
September 1995 – June 1999: Bachelor’s Degree in Law, "Babeº-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
September 2005April 2007 Mykolas Romeris university – LithuaniaMaster on Business law. The topic of master thesis Problems regarding third parties non-signatories in international commercial arbitration.
November 2006May 2007 King‘s college – United KingdomLectures on EC Competition law, International Commercial Arbitration, Financial Regulation in European Union, Transnational and Comparative Financial and Commercial Law under the auspices of Fellowship of The Lord Slynn of Hadley European Union Law Foundation
February 2004June 2004 Erasmus University Rotterdam – NetherlandsSpring semester under the Erasmus Socrates exchange programme.
September 2001 June 2005 Mykolas Romeris university – Lithuania Bachelor of law.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
January 2008to date Mykolas Romeris university – Vilnius, LithuaniaLecturer on International Investment Law, International Private Law and Legal Regulation of International Carriage.
March 2009 XVI Wilem C. Vis Moot – Vienna, Austria.Arbitrator.
October 2006June 2007 British Institute of International and Comparative Law – London, United KingdomResearch fellow.
March 2006 XLVII Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot – Washington DC, USA Participant, 74th top oralist out of 400.
May 2005 FLEXEM – Antwerp, BelgiumParticipant, international FLEXEM (flexibility in labour law relations) project Conditions of Termination of Labour Agreements.
March 2005 XLVI Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot – Washington DC (USA)Participant, team won 8th place.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
May 2008to date Law Firm Sutkiene, Pilkauskas and partners – Vilnius, LithuaniaAssociate.
2009 Lithuanian Bar AssociationAdvocate.
2009 Young International Arbitration Group of LCIAMember.
April 2008December 2005 Law Firm Eversheds Saladzius – Vilnius, LithuaniaAssociate.
Blanca Montejo was Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs and provided legal advice to the United Nations departments and subsidiary organs as well as to its specialized agencies, including advice related to institutional affairs, peacekeeping operations, privileges and immunities, contracts and litigation-related matters. Prior to joining the United Nations in March 2007, Blanca worked with the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris and in New York specializing in international dispute resolution. She represented states and companies in investment arbitration cases (under the rules of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes - ICSID) and commercial arbitration cases under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) relating to disputes in different geographic areas. She also gave advice to states on public international law issues (particularly boundary disputes) and represented applicants before the European Court of Human Rights in relation to alleged violations of Articles 2, 3, 6, 13 and 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
She is a regular lecturer in international arbitration law in different universities, namely, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Faculty of Law), Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina (Faculty of Law), and Université Paris-Nanterre (DESS Paris X). She was the co-director and lecturer of the First International Arbitration Summer Course of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in July 2005.
Blanca is a qualified lawyer at the Madrid Bar since March 1999 and a New York attorney since January 2001.
Blanca’s monther tongue is Spanish and she is fluent in English, French, and Italian. She has an intermediate level of German and Hebrew and she has basic notions of Arabic.
Having worked as a research associate at the Faculty of Law of Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and as an associate with Orrick Hölters & Elsing, Alexandra Diehl is going to enter the dispute resolution team of the Düsseldorf office of Clifford Chance in October 2009. Alexandra has received her legal education from the University of Münster (First State Exam 2003) and Suffolk University Law School (LL.M. 2004). She has recently finished a doctoral thesis dealing with the core standards of investment protection.
Together with Prof. Dr. R. Alexander Lorz, Alexandra organizes the Düsseldorf International Arbitration School, a five-day yearly event.
Alexandra has long been infected with the "Moot Court virus". She used to coach the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration and the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court teams of Heinrich-Heine-University and regularly acts as arbitrator at the Vis Moot Court in Vienna.
Alexander Lütgendorf is a dual English and Austrian qualified lawyer based in Cairo. He specialises in international arbitration, with a particular emphasis on complex cross-border and investor-state disputes. He acts as counsel and arbitrator. A common and civil law advocate, Mr Lütgendorf, has handled cases under all major arbitration rules, both institutional and ad hoc. He has extensive experience across different cultures and jurisdictions, involving common, civil and Islamic law systems. Mr Lütgendorf is Consulting Editor-in-Chief of the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration and active in policy initiatives of arbitral bodies and other organisations, including as member of ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Forces and observer delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration. Based in Cairo, Mr Lütgendorf commenced his career in Vienna and practised for several years in London with the International Arbitration and Disputes Groups of leading international law firms, White & Case LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and with a leading international arbitrator at Essex Court Chambers. Mr Lütgendorf qualified as a Rechtsanwalt (attorney at law) in Austria before then qualifying in England and Wales. He earned his Magister iuris (LL.M.) from the University of Vienna and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science; he studied public international law and EU law at the Université de Bourgogne in France. A practising Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales, he handles cases in English, French and German, speaks conversational Spanish and basic Arabic.
Deputy Head, Division ‘International Investment, Debt rescheduling, Development banks’, Directorate-General for External Economic Policy, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin. His professional responsibilities include - inter alia - the negotiating of Bilateral Investment Treaties on behalf of the German Federal Government. - In the Spring 2009 term, he will be a Global Fellow and Visiting Scholar from Government at New York University School of Law, where he will research “Globalization and International Investment Law”.
Mr. Braun gained his First State Exam in Law [J.D. equivalent] from University of Heidelberg as a scholar of the German National Scholarship Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and his Second State Exam in Law [Bar exam equivalent] in Munich. Since 1995 he has been working for the German Federal Ministry of Economics: Directorate-General for Economic Policy, Bonn; leave of absence to study for Master's Degree at Harvard University (‘Master of Public Administration’ / J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Cambridge / USA; Assistant to the Special Representative of the German Chancellor for negotiations on compensations for former slave laborers, Count Lambsdorff, Berlin / Washington; Parliamentary Adviser, FDP Caucus in the German Bundestag, Berlin; since 2003 returned to the Federal Ministry of Economics, Directorate-General for External Economic Policy.
Mr. Braun has published and lectured on International Investment Law and on Germany's Bilateral Investment Treaties, inter alia:
- “The New German-Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaty—A Commentary and Evaluation in Light of the Development of Investment Protection under Public International Law”, ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal Fall 2007, p. 1-22 (joint publication with P. Schonard) bzw. “Der neue deutsch-chinesische Investitionsförderungs- und -schutzvertrag“, Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 2007, 561-569 (joint publication with P. Schonard).
- “Investment Protection under WTO Law—New Developments in the Aftermath of Cancún”, Beiträge zum Transnationalen Wirtschaftsrecht, 2004, Paper 28, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2004, available at: http://www2.jura.uni-halle.de/telc/ publikationen.html bzw. „Multilaterales Investitionsschutzabkommen - Perspektiven nach Cancún“, in: Steinmann, Höhne, Stoll (hrsg.): Die WTO vor neuen Herausforderungen, Tagungsband des 5. Graduiertentreffens im Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht in Göttingen, 2005.
Christian P. Alberti is the Assistant Vice President of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), in New York. He supervises the ICDR’s staff and center management activities and oversees hundreds of large complex multi-party arbitrations and mediations covering all types of disputes and industries each year. Prior to joining the ICDR in 2005, Christian headed the Italian Desk of a mid-size law firm in Germany.
Christian is the past President and Honorary Member of the Alumni Association of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (MAA) and represents the MAA as its NGO delegate at the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration sessions. He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and guest lectures at various law schools about international arbitration and mediation in the U.S. and abroad.
He successfully coaches New York University's Vis Moot Team since 2007 and its Foreign Direct Investment Moot Team since 2008. He is an associate of Pace University’s Institute of International Commercial Law, a founding member of the International Arbitration Club of New York as well as a member of various international ADR associations.
After studies at the Philipps-University of Marburg, the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer (DHV) and the University of Queensland he was admitted to practice law in Germany in 2003 and in the State of New York in 2011. He obtained an LL.M. from Tulane University Law School in 2002.
He speaks fluent English, German, Italian and has basic knowledge of French.
Mark R. Joelson graduated from Harvard Law School, spent one year on a Fulbright Scholarship at Oxford University, and began his law practice with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He became a partner with a number of leading Washington law firms and carried on a primarily international practice, for many years representing the Governments of the United Kingdom and Australia. He was also lead counsel in a number of cases before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. In 1998 he opened his own law office to focus on arbitration and mediation matters. He has acted as counsel, sole arbitrator, panel member or chairman in a wide variety of arbitral matters. He has also served as a panelist under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA, including extended proceedings involving Canadian lumber exports to the U.S. He is a member of the mediator roster of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and regularly serves as a mediator. He is a past chairman of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and was the Representative of the ABA on the Council of the International Bar Association. He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course in Advanced International Commercial Arbitration. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Nicole Duclos specialises in international arbitration and public international law involving Latin America. Nicole has represented U.S. and foreign clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under various sets of rules (including UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, ICDR and AAA) and subject to different substantive and procedural laws. Nicole has advised clients (including States, governmental agencies and corporates) in arbitrations involving Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela. Nicole is also the author of articles on investment law and international arbitration and a regular conference speaker. Recent speaking engagements include Chile, Colombia, Peru and Costa Rica.
Education: LL.M., Harvard Law School; LL.B., Universidad de Valparaiso Law School
Daniel Gutterman practiced commercial law in New York and Washington D.C., 1956-1991. He is a judge at the Philip C. Jessup International moot court competition in New York, Kiev, Moscow and international rounds in Washington, D.C. He is also a judge at the New York City Mentor inter-scholastic high school moot court competition.
He was visiting professor of commercial law at Central European University, Budapest (1991, Open Society Institute, sponsor). With Fulbright Program and Open Society Institute sponsorship he taught law at University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev; Georgian-American University, Tbilisi; Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty; Moscow School of Social and
Economic Science, Moscow; Mari-State University and Moscow Open Social University at Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic, Russia; Kazan State University, Kazan State Technical University and Tatarstan Institute for Business Development, Kazan, Russia; and Innovative University of Eurasia, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
Mr. Gutterman's other professional activities since 1991 include:
1993, Resident Legal Adviser at the Albanian Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Cooperation (American Bar Association, CEELI Program).
1954, Commentator on the draft of Russian Civil Code Part I (enacted 1/1/95) (Harvard Institute for International Development).
1995-96, Chief Project Lawyer, Ukraine Agricultural Land Share Project (Pilot program to restructure collective farms; Ukraine Ministry of Agriculture and U.S. Agency for International Development).
2000, Adviser to small and medium business at Upper Volga Institute, Tver Oblast, Russia, on business law, commercial transactions, finance and international trade (Citizens Development Corps and USAID.)
2009, Speaker and Specialist, "Means to Overcome the Financial Crisis": round-tables and lectures in Almaty, Pavlodar and Astana, Kazakhstan
with government officials, lawyers, judges, businessmen, diplomats, law and economics students and professors (U.S. Department of
State and U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan).
Mr. Gutterman has been a guest lecturer at professional and trade organizations, including U.S. Farm Credit Service, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, American Technology Transfer Association, Practicing Law Institute, Bank Lending Institute, and the New York City and New York State Bar Associations.
He has published articles in law and commercial journals and is a member of the Fulbright Association, Friends of Jessup, American Bar Association and other professional organizations. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1955) and Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (B.A..With Distinction, 1952), and was a Carnegie Foundation Grantee at the Hague Academy of International Law (1954).
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov, RAD PhD is a Law Graduate from both the University of San Paolo, Brazil, and the University of Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom. She achieved her Master's Degree in Latin American Integration from the USP and obtained a Doctorate in Law from the Federal University in Parana, Brazil.
Prof. Fernandez is a senior researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law within the Ministry of Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, in addition to being a professor at the University of Belgrade Law School, lecturing in Judicial Protection in the EU. She is a member of such prestigious organizations as the College of Arbitrators of the FDI Moot Arbitration Competition (rotating between Boston, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and London) and has achieved recognition as a legal practitioner from the Bar of England and Wales. Prof. Fernandez has worked as a visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. Her recently-published book, "The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law: International Criminal Court’s Mechanism of Implementation", is based on her Doctoral thesis, researched at the University of Cambridge during her time spent as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law.
Ekaterina Finkel has an LL.M. from KCL, a Masters in Private International and Business Law from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and undergraduate degrees in law from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, BPP London and College of Law London. Most recently, she worked as a research assistant to Prof. Martin Hunter and Toby Landau QC, and has been teaching tutorials in International Arbitration and International Arbitration Advocacy workshop at KCL since 2008. She is under a training contract with Baker & McKenzie London.
Michal is an experienced lawyer with international backgrund; graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M.), Jagiellonian University (law degree) and Sichuan University (Chinese). Professional experience includes working with a premier U.S. law firm (in Boston and Warsaw offices), Polish law firms, private equity fund and part-time teaching. Recognized as one of Poland’s up-and-coming lawyers (Wprost Weekly, December 2004) and mentioned in competition law category of Legal 500 (April 2009). Michal runs a blog on international commercial law www.klaczynski.pl
Dr. Zbysek Kordac is an attorney-at-law licensed to practice in California, USA and in the Czech Republic. In his practice, he focuses on dispute resolution. He is a member of the team currently representing the Czech Republic in several investment treaty arbitrations. He serves as an arbitrator with the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. Dr. Kordac teaches business and commercial law at Charles University in Prague. He has been a coach and arbitrator at Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court.
Dr. Efraim Chalamish is an international investment law scholar. For more than a decade, he has been involved in international legal practice in New York, Paris and Israel, along with research and analysis of cutting edge areas in public and private international law.Dr. Chalamish received his Doctorate in international economic law from the University of Michigan, where he focused on the future of bilateral investment treaties as a multilateral agreement and on foreign direct investment policy in Israel. He has advised the Israeli government on related matters. During his LLM studies at the University of Michigan he had researched global regulation of human rights in the era of terrorism. He holds a law degree and an LLM from Bar-Ilan Univeristy in Israel, both Magna Cum Laude. His legal background has been complemented by an MBA degree in Finance from Bar-Ilan University. His writing on foreign investment has been published in leading journals in United States. Teaching is a second nature to him. Dr. Chalamish has served as an adjunct professor at Bar Ilan University and Netanya Academic College in Israel and he is a frequent guest speaker at many international organizations, communities, and universities. He is truly passionate about public service and diplomacy, helping various non profit organizations with their strategic thinking and leadership needs. He is the United Nations representative of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers. At New York University he is working on global regulation of sovereign wealth funds and financial markets and its interaction with international investment law regime. Dr. Chalamish will also continue his work on the various links between economic development and economic and national security.
Mr Gupta is a practicing advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the High Court at New Delhi. His main areas of practice are civil dispute resolution, corporate/commercial litigation, arbitration, constitutional law etc. He has also undergone a course on Corporate Law and Governance at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a course on International Commercial Arbitration at the Center for Transnational Law, University of Cologne, Germany.
Ms. Tung is an American attorney licensed in California and New York (admission pending background check). Ms. Tung currently works with Dr. Pierre A. Karrer in Zürich, Switzerland, in complex international arbitration cases. Prior to working in Zurich, she graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a triple major before receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law. She then received her Masters of Law (LL.M.) in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University. Ms. Tung is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, and has basic knowledge of German and Swedish.
PhD Candidate LSE.
Researcher, Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies of Industrial and Economic Law, Argentina.
Former Legal Fellow UNCTAD.
Assistant, BIICL.
Professeur: Mohamed OUDEBJI
Professor of International Economic Law of Development at the Faculty of Law/University «Cadi Ayyad» in Marrakech-Morocco.
He studied at Rabat University (Morocco) and at Laval University (in Quebec-city/Canada). He has a bachelor’s degree in Political science and both Master’s degree and Ph.D.(in International Economic Law of Development) from the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Quebec-Canada.
He is the author of 2 Manuals of International Economic Law (in French and Arabic languages). Also 2 manuals on Methodology of Research in Social Sciences (Arabic and French). He gave the Course of TRIMS/Investments (CRPC/Institute of WTO) at Rabat University-Morocco (the years 2004, 2005, and 2006) in collaboration with Mme Martha LARA (WTO: division of Trade and Finances, Geneva).
Articles written by this author
-« Les principes contemporains de la coopération internationale sur le commerce des produits de base ou matières premières », in Les cahiers de droit, (Faculty of Law, Univ.Laval in Quebec/Canada), septembre 1991, pp.711-728.
-« L’accord international sur le café : stabilisation des prix et développement économique », Revue Marocaine d’Economie et de Droit Comparé no 26, (of Faculty of Law, Marrakech), 1996, pp.175-186.
-« Les traités bilatéraux d’investissements : la pratique marocaine », Revue Marocaine d’études internationales », (Faculty of Law, of Oujda-Morocco), juin 2001, pp.158 à 167.
-« The Bilateral Investment Treaties Signed by Morocco and Economic Development (in French) », Journal of Law (Kuwait University), vol.25, december 2001, pp.11-35.
-« Existe-t-il un droit international du développement à l’OMC ? », Revue Marocaine d’Administration et de Développement, no 45, 2003, pp.89-100.
-« Le commerce électronique, dans le cadre de l’OMC, et les pays en développement », Revue Marocaine d’Economie et de Droit Comparé
(Faculty of Law, Marrakech), 2003, pp.103 à 114.
- « Le projet d’Accord multilatéral sur les investissements et les pays en développement (MAI) », Revue de la Recherche Juridique, Droit prospectif, (University d’Aix-Marseille3, France), janvier 2004, pp.356-373.
- « Les accords bilatéraux favorisent-t-ils l’attractivité de l’investissement direct étranger dans les Etats d’accueil Africains ? », Revue de la Recherche Juridique, Droit prospectif, (Univ. d’Aix-Marseille3), (no3) 2005, pp.1515-1533.
- « The International Investment Agreements and The Trade-Related Investment Measures’ Agreement (TRIMS/Investments) in the African context ", in Transnational Dispute Management (University Dundee, Scotland), December, No 5, 2006.
-« Traitement spécial et différencié et développement dans le contexte de l’OMC », Revue de la Recherche Juridique, Droit prospectif, (University d’Aix-Marseille3, France), No 2, 2008, pp.997-1008.
- Note de Recherche, provisoire, sur la question intitulée :
« Are the “flexibility” mechanisms provided for in IIAs (e.g. exceptions, waivers, transition periods, safeguards) sufficient to enable host developing countries to pursue their development strategies and benefit most from foreign investment? “
Cette note a été élaborée pour UNCTAD’s multi-year expert
meeting on investment for development : « The devlopment dimension
of International Investment Agreements » (11 February 2009).
- Article in Arabic « The International Investment Agreements in the African context ", published in “Al Mostaqbal Al Arabi”, April 2009.
ARTICLES, EXPERTISE et COLLOQUES :
C’est à certaines questions de l’OMC, en particulier, qu’il a consacré plusieurs articles. Il accorde également un intérêt spécifique aux accords internationaux d’investissements et au droit international du développement. Ainsi il a publié, par exemple, « Les traités d’investissements bilatéraux, signés par le Maroc, et le développement économique », in Journal of Law (Kuwait University), vol.25, pp.11 à 35, décembre 2001, ainsi que d’autres articles dans des Revues : britannique (TDM, Univ.Dundee/Ecosse), française (Droit prospectif, Univ.Aix-Marseille3), marocaine sur le commerce Nord/Sud dans le contexte de l’OMC et sur les Accords internationaux d’investissements etc...
-Membre du Réseau de la CNUCED sur les Accords internationaux d’investissements.
- Ancien Expert d’Afrique Francophone, (2003 à 2006) pour l’Institut de l’assistance technique de l’OMC, sur le commerce et les investissements.
-Membre à la fois de la Société Européenne de Droit International et aussi de son Groupe de Réflexion en Droit international économique.
-Membre du «Réseau international juridique sur la diversité des expressions culturelles » basé à l’Université Laval à Québec au Canada
-Aussi j’ai participé à plusieurs colloques nationaux et internationaux dont celui, par exemple, sur « Droits et Développement » organisé par l’Association Tiers-Monde, du 25 au 27 mai 2004, à l’Université Nancy2 en France.
Participation au programme de formation sur la promotion et la protection des investissements étrangers, 19 au 23 janvier 2009, organisé par la CNUCED et le Groupe de la Banque Islamique de développement.
INTERETS DE RECHERCHE :
1- Droits internationaux du commerce et de l’investissement,
2- Développement durable/ou soutenable,
3- Droit international du développement,
4- Diversité culturelle/Cultural Diversity,
5- Métodologie de la recherche en Sciences Sociales.
LANGUES : Français, Anglais, Arabe.
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Marrakech, MAROC/MOROCCO
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Before joining Clifford Chance, Simon Greenberg was Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration where he supervised the case-management teams and assisted the ICC Court in administering more that 1,500 pending international arbitrations. He is the Global Chair of ICC’s Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF). He was formerly a Senior Associate with the international arbitration department of Dechert LLP, Paris, and practiced with other firms in Paris and Australia. Simon lectures on international contracts at the Institute of Political Science of Paris (Sciences Po) and on international arbitration at the University of Aix-Marseille. He has published numerous articles on international arbitration and has just completed a book entitled “International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective”, Cambridge University Press, 2010 (with two co-authors).
Krystyna Chmielewska is a junior associate, practicing at the FKA law firm in Warsaw, specializing in commercial litigation and arbitration. She works closely with the permanent Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. She has gained arbitration experience in the United States, in the United Kingdom and in Poland.
In 2009 she graduated with honors from the University of Warsaw; obtained two Master’s degrees in law and in journalism. She holds a Diploma of the American School of Law from the University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law as well as the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Diploma in Public Relations.
Numerous achievements, i.e. the internship at the United Nations (New York), during which she took part in organizing IBA International Arbitration Day and UN New York Convention Day; award in the international writing competition – one-week seminar in Washington D.C. founded by the Institute for Humane Studies. Former legal counsel for the Transparency International, former member of the Academic Sport Association. Current member of the Young ICCA.
Languages – Polish, English, German.
Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret is the Senior Legal Adviser of the program on investment policies with the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. She is the technical assistance and training coordinator of the work programme on international investment agreements (IIAs). She has been overseeing the research of the programme, including the publications of the UNCTAD Series on issues in international investment agreements. Among other publications, she has co-authored the recent UNCTAD publication on "Bilateral investment treaties 1995-2006: Trends in investment rulemaking" and several articles published recently.
Ms. Joubin-Bret holds a post-graduate degree (DEA) in Private International Law from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. She graduated in International Economic Law from University Paris I and in Political Science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She has been Legal Counsel in the legal department of the Schneider Group, General Counsel of the KIS Group and Director-Expert of Pomagalski S.A. She has been appointed judge at the Commercial Court in Grenoble (France).
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
California - December 1989 - Bar No. 144457
U.S. Court of Appeals - Ninth Circuit 1999
U.S. District Courts - Eastern 1989, Northern 1989, Southern 1990, Central 1990.
EDUCATION
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY - Santa Clara, California
Juris Doctor, May 1989
Specialized courses in labor, business and financing law.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO - Fresno, California
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science - May 1986
Specialized courses in: marketing, public relations and public administration.
Marko Jovanovic was born in 1983 in Belgrade. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 2006. He also graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology (Department for French language and literature). In 2007 he obtained his LL.M. degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of law and finished the master course in European Law at the University of Nancy 2. He is currently working on his S.J.D. thesis at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Marko Jovanovic works as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where he teaches Private International Law, Arbitration Law and EU Trade Policy. He is also the coach of the University of Belgrade FDI Moot team.
Marco Grandes (J.D.) is an Ecuadorian attorney. He currently works at the Attorney General's Office in the "International Affairs and Arbitration" section.
He previously worked at Perez, Bustamante & Ponce law firm, mostly in projects related to oil, gas, energy, international investment law and international arbitration.
He has been involved in International Investment Law moot competitions as contestant, team coach and later, as arbitrator.
He has taught the course "International Investment Law", in English, as professor in his alma matter Universidad San Francisco de Quito Law School.
Alex Umole is a Law Professional & Lawyer. He holds a Masters degree (LLM) from the Pacific McGeorge, School of Law, California, United States, a Barrister at Law Degree (BL) Nigerian Law School and also a Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB), Ambrose Alli University.
In the working world, he has experience in Legal practice, business and has been involved in the areas of Transactional Business Practice, Investment & Commercial Arbitration, Productivity Consulting, Litigation and Professional Negotiation.
He seeks an opportunity for career growth in an international environment.
He is member, Advisory Board, International Centre for Dispute Resolution Young & International, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja, and Member, American Society of International Law (ASIL) Washington D.C amongst others.
He has several publications to his name and serves as Editor for numerous professional journals such as the International Legal Materials (ILM) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
Mr. Sumeer Sodhi is a practising Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has graduated from Indian Law Society's Law College (ILS), Pune University, India.
Mr. Sumeer Sodhi has also successfully completed Diplomas in the following fields:
(i) Corporate Laws from Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL), Pune
(ii) Intellectual Property Rights, ASCL, Pune
(iii) Corporate Laws from ASCL, Pune
(iv) Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions and Reconstruction from ASCL, Pune
During his law graduation, Mr. Sodhi actively participated in the extra-curricular activities and stood first in the Dr. SP Sathe National Level Moot Court Competition held in March, 2008 & at Shivaji Law College, Parbhani State Level
Moot Court Competition held in February, 2007.
Otylia Babiak is currently a Deputy Counsel of the Secretariat of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France, where she primarily assists with managing cases under the ICC’s Rules of Arbitration as part of the North American team. Prior to joining the Secretariat, she worked as a Deputy Manager of ICC’s Dispute Resolution Services, where she primarily assisted with managing cases under the ICC’s ADR, Expertise, Dispute Boards, and DOCDEX Rules. Otylia has a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School with a specialization in international law and was admitted to the Bars of New York and Massachusetts in 2010. She was a recipient of the Thomas Waelde Advocacy Award for Best Oralist in the 2009 Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition. Otylia is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law and of the International Mediation Committee. She speaks English and Polish, conversational Russian, and some French.
Undergraduate Level: Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering.
Postgraduate Level:LL.B..
Areas of Interest: Constitutional Law, Law of International Commercial Arbitration & Conciliation
Manish is an associate in the Litigation department of Allen & Overy specialising in international arbitration. He has acted for clients in a variety of business sectors including finance, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications, in international and commercial and investment treaty arbitrations held under a wide variety of rules (ICC, LCIA, SCC, AAA-ICDR, SIAC, ICSID, UNCITRAL) involving various jurisdictions such as London, Paris, The Hague, Stockholm, Washington DC and Singapore. His recent experience includes advising the ICC as intervener in the Supreme Court case of Jivraj v Hashwani, and an EU Member State in a treaty claim brought by a pharmaceutical company.
He is dual qualified as an Indian Advocate and English Solicitor, and spent six months in the Singapore office of Allen & Overy in 2010.
DR. MARCIN KALDUNSKI is an Assistant Professor at the Nicholaus Copernicus
University in Torun, Poland. He has been engaged, in particular, inpublic international
law as well as international economic law. He receivedhis Ph.D. in law from the
Nicholaus Copernicus University in 2005. His Ph.D. thesis was also published as a
monograph in 2006 entitled The Most Favoured Nation Clause. He has published
several books on international law. Since 2005, along with Dr. Balcerzak, he has been
one of the faculty coaches working with students who take part in the Jessup
International Law moot court competitions. His teams won the Polish National
competition in 2006 and 2007 and competed at the international level in Washington,
D.C. both years. Also, since 2005 he has been conducting research at The Hague
Academy of International Law and in the World TradeOrganization. He is a member of
International Law Association. He teaches International Law at Nicholas Copernicus
School of Law and Administration in Torun, Poland.
Aniruddha Rajput is anadvocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. He also regularlyappears before various High Courts, arbitral tribunals and otherforums. His practice involveswide variety of work including arbitration, commercial law,securities transactions, mining and electricity matters, public andprivate international law, taxation laws and constitutional law. Heis also a Visiting Professor of International Commercial Arbitrationand International Trade Law at the Indian Law Institute for GraduateProgrammes.
Heobtained LLB degree from ILS Law College, Pune where he was awardedthe Best Student Award, 2004-2005. He also held rank in the meritlist of University of Pune. Thereafter he completed graduation fromthe London School of Economics and Political Science.
Heparticipated in drafting the LCIA- INDIA Arbitration and MediationRules and Arbitration and Mediation Rules of Delhi Arbitration Centreconstituted by the Delhi High Court. He was invited by Ministry ofLaw & Justice, Government of India for “National Conference onthe proposed amendments to the Arbitration & Conciliation Act,1996”, August, 2010; as a part of the ongoing efforts of theMinistry of Law to strengthen the arbitration framework in India, byproposing amendments to the Arbitration Act, 1996.
He haslectured extensively on various legal topics including Foreign DirectInvestment, arbitration and various aspects of commercial laws. Hehas participated in various conferences of London Court ofInternational Arbitration LCIA and International Bar Association(IBA). His publications include contribution of a chapter “Types ofADR in Sports” in the book “Law & Sports in India:Development, Issues and Challenges”, authored by Hon’ble Mr.Justice Mukul Mudgal, Former Chief Justice, Punjab & Haryana HighCourt.
He is amember of Supreme Court Bar Association and Young InternationalArbitrators Group (YIAG).
As astudent he was actively involved in Moot Court activity. He was apart of winning team of North India Rounds of Philip C. JessupInternational Law Moot Court Competition, 2004 and represented Indiaat the International Rounds. He was the winner of UK Rounds, NorthEuropean Rounds and finalist at the International Rounds of ELSA WTOMoot Court Competition, 2005. His team was at the runners-up positionat the International Rounds and he was ranked seventh in the list ofTop Ten Speakers at the competition.
Kathleen Claussen is a Brandon Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. At the Lauterpacht Centre, she studied developments in international investment law, particularly in breakaway and quasi-state regions, as well as trends in international commercial arbitration. Prior to coming to Cambridge, she was a law clerk to the Honorable David F. Hamilton of the United States Court of Appeals for theSeventh Circuit. She has also served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the YaleJournal of International Law.
Ardeshir Atai holds a PhD in international investment law from University of London's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS).
Dr Ardeshir Atai leads the international arbitration practice at Atai & Associates. Dr. Atai is a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire where he teaches international commercial arbitration. Ardeshir has written many articles on international investment law including investor-state dispute resolution under bilateral investment treaties (BITs). Dr. Atai is a member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and International Arbitration Institute (IAI) based in Paris.
Levent Sabanogullari is a PhD Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, where he is scholar of the International Max Planck Research School ”Successful Dispute Resolution”. His research focuses on interactions between international investment and trade law obligations in investor-State-disputes. Moreover, he is Research Assistant at the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law at Heidelberg University.
Prior to that he has been working as Research Assistant at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne as well as at the Chair for Public International Law, EU Law, European and International Economic Law at Cologne University. Apart from his academic activities, he serves as tribunal secretary to the distinguished arbitrator Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel in international commercial and investor-State arbitrations under various arbitral rules. He is also admitted as Attorney-at-Law to the New York State bar.
Previously, he passed the German First State Exam at Cologne University, was awarded a Diploma of English Legal Studies by University College London and obtained an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies at New York University. Throughout his studies, he has been awarded numerous merit-based scholarships, among others by the German-American Fulbright Commission, the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service.
Alumni of National Law University, Raipur, India. He is currently an Associate with Amarchand & Mangaldas in their Capital Markets Team. Earlier he was a research associate & Visitng Faculty at the Dr. RM Lohia National Law University, Lucknow. He was also the National Academic and Product Head (Legal)at Team Satyam, with whom he continues to be associated. He has a deep interest in Arbitration, Trade and Intellectual Property. A Microsoft IP Scholar, he has been been the most successful mooter of his school and a two time participant at the Vis Moot. He has authored many papers ranging from rights of disabled people to the liability of online service providers. On invitation he has conducted Moot Court and Advocacy Workshops at the National Law University, Orissa and KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar, India.
He runs a regular column for children and is an avid sportsperson, especially at Chess, Football and Volley-Ball
Rishabh Sancheti is an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He is also a visiting faculty at some law schools in India.
Mr. Rishabh Sancheti has been a Research Assistant to Hon’ble Justice N. Santosh Hegde, Judge, Supreme Court of India. He completed European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) with a full scholarship from the European Union as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar. He has received LL.M. from University of Hamburg, Germany, Diploma di Master Universitario from University of Bologna, Italy and LL.M. from University of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Rishabh Sancheti graduated Cum Laude from the National Law University, India, with S.R. Bhandari Memorial Gold Medal qualifying for B.B.A.-LL.B. (Hons.) with a specialization in the area of International Trade and Investment laws.
Rishabh Sancheti has previously been a judge at the Finals of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, Indian National Selection Rounds, Lucknow; Finals of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, Belgian National Selection Rounds, Brussels; Finals of the Stetson International Environmental Law Moot, Indian Selection Rounds, Jammu; Semi-finals of the National Technology Law Moot, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; Semi-finals of the Surana and Surana All India Minority Rights Moot, Pune; the UP Bar Council Intellectual Property National Moot Court Competition, Lucknow; the Justice Hidayatullah Memorial Competition Law Moot Court Competition, Raipur; M.M. Singhvi-Bar Council of India International Moot, Jodhpur; Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, South African Selection Rounds, Cape Town; Inter-American Human Rights Moot, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C. and Stetson International Environmental Law Moot, Florida. The other competitions where his name lists in judge-invitees are the Telders International Law Moot Competition, The Hague, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Indonesian National Rounds, and as an Arbitrator at both Vienna and Hong Kong rounds of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
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