Professor Albert Jan van den Berg

Professor of Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Partner in Hanotiau & van den Berg; General Editor, Yearbook Commercial Arbitration

Teaches the intensive course: The New York Convention of 1958

Professor van den Berg is at the top of his field as an arbitrator and arbitration lawyer, and he is also a relentless scholar. He is a Professor of Law, and the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University, and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute. Professor van den Berg founded the firm of Hanotiau & van den Berg in 2001, a firm listed among the best in the world, which has twice won the Belgian Legal Award for being the Arbitration Law Firm of the Year. Professor van den Berg has been either a presiding or party-appointed arbitrator in all major international arbitration forums including: ECT, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, NAFTA, NAI, and UNCITRAL, and his experience in national-level arbitral forums is also vast and varied. In 2006 he was voted the Arbitration Lawyer of the Year by the International Who's Who of Buisness Lawyers. He has served as the Secretary-General to the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, and has been Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration.

Professor Van Den Berg received a Masters of Law degree from the University of Amsterdam, Post-doctorate training and a Docteur en Droit from the University of Aix-en-Provence, a Masters of Comparative Jurisprudence from the New York University, and a Doctor of Laws degree from Erasmus University.

1. The New York Convention in Practice, in: Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and International Arbitral Awards: The New York Convention in Practice (Emmanuel Gaillard & Domenico di Pietro, eds., 2008).
2. Failure by Arbitrators to Apply Contract Terms from the Perspective of the New York Convention, in: Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolution (Gerald Aksen et al., eds., 2005).
3. General Editor, Improving the efficiency of arbitration agreement an awards: 40 years of application of the New York Convention, in: ICCA Congress Series no. 9 (1998 Paris), Kluwer Law International (1999).
4. The New York Arbitration Convention of 1958 - Towards a Uniform Judicial Interpretation, Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Kluwer, Deventer, 1981)