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Head of the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; President of the LCIA; President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; Professor at the University of Dundee
Teaches the intensive course: Investment Arbitration
Biography:
Jan Paulsson is joint head of the public international law group and head of the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Professor Paulsson has acted as counsel or arbitrator in over 400 international arbitrations, including very large cases in the energy and investment fields. He has conducted cases under the auspices of the ICC, and under the rules of UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA, and the AAA, as well as before the International Court of Justice.
He has extensive experience with international organizations, including UNCITRAL, UNITAR, WIPO and the World Bank. He is a Judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, and was a member of the ad hoc sports arbitration tribunals on site at the Atlanta, Nagano, and Sydney Olympic Games. Jan is the President of the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration) and was a Vice-President from 1985 to 2001. He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and the University of Paris.
Key works:
- International Arbitration is Not Arbitration, 2 (2008) Stockholm International Arbitration Review (2008) p. 1
- Arbitration Without Privity, 10(2) ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal p. 232 (Fall 1995)
- Enclaves of Justice (Lecture given at the Rule of Law Conference, University of Richmond School of Law, 12 April 2007)
- Arbitration Unbound: Award Detached from the Law of its Country of Origin, International and Comparative Law Quarterly (April 1981) p. 358
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