Professor Francisco Orrego Vicuņa

Professor of Law at the University of Chile; former President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; former President of the Institut de droit international

Teaches the intensive course: Investment Arbitration in Latin America and the Development of International Law

Professor Vicuņa is Professor of Law at the University of Chile and Co-Director of the Joint LL.M. Program with the University of Heidelberg which specializes in international law, international trade, investment and arbitration. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Paris II, Stanford University and the University of Miami. Professor Vicuņa sits as an arbitrator at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London and is vice president and member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He has notably served as president of numerous arbitration tribunals in ICSID, the ICC, NAFTA and ad-hoc arbitration, as judge and former President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and as member of a dispute settlement panel in the World Trade Organization. Professor Vicuņa was awarded the Medal of Merit from the University of Heidelberg, and the National Award on Social Sciences and the Humanities from the Chilean Government.

Professor Vicuņa received his PhD in international law from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) and has published extensively in the field of international dispute settlement and other central questions of international law.

1. Softening Necessity. In Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman by Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloane, Siegfried Wiessner (eds) (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010) pp. 741-751
2. Annulling the Annulment: More on Contracts and Treaties. In Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: the Fordham Papers 2009 by Arthur W. Rovine, ed., Vol. 2009, (2010) pp. 83-99
3. Regulatory Authority and Legitimate Expectations : Balancing the Rights of the State and the Individual under International Law in a Global Society. Lecture in honor of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht at The Research Centre for International Law (Cambridge University, 2008)
4. International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society: Constitutionalization, Accessibility, Privatization (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
5. Changing Approaches to the Nationality of Claims in the Context of Diplomatic Protection and International Dispute Settlement. In Liber Amicorum Ibrahim Shihata by S. Schlemmer-Schulte (ed.) (The Hague, Kluwer Law International 2001)