Honorary Professor of the Graduate Institute; Member of the Institute of International Law; former Judge on the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY-ICTR; former Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO; former judge ad hoc on the ICJ

Teaches the intensive course: The Metamorphosis of the International Judicial Function

It is hard to imagine someone more qualified than Professor Georges Abi-Saab on the topic of International law. Professor Abi-Saab has not only practiced International law, he has helped to shape it.

Professor Abi-Saab graduated in law from Cairo University and pursued his studies in law, economics and politics at the Universities of Paris, Michigan (MA in Economics), Harvard Law School (LLM and SJD), Cambridge and Geneva (Docteur es Sciences Politiques). He also held numerous visiting professorships, including Harvard Law School, the Universities of Tunis, Jordan, the West Indies (Trinidad), as well as the Rennert Distinguished Professorship at the NYU School of Law and the Henri Rolin Chair in Belgian Universities.

He served as consultant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the preparation of two reports on "Respect of Human Rights in Armed Conflicts" (1969 and 1970), and for the report on "Progressive Development of Principles and Norms of International Law Relating to the New International Economic Order" (1984). He represented Egypt in the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law (1974 to 1977), and acted as Counsel and advocate for several governments in cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as well as in international arbitrations. He has also served twice as judge ad hoc on the ICJ, as Judge on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and as a Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission. He is a Member of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund and of various international arbitral tribunals (ICSID, ICC, CRCICA, etc.).

1. Les exceptions préliminaires dans la procédure de la Cour internationale: Etude des notions fondamentales de procédure et des moyens de leur mise en oeuvre, (Paris, Pedone, 1967)
2. International Crises and the Role of Law: The United Nations Operation in Congo 1960-1964 (Oxford University Press, 1978)
3. The Concept of International Organization (as editor) (Paris, UNESCO, 1981; French edition, 1980)

Partner in Python & Peter

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

1. Comparative Law of International Arbitration, with J.-F. Poudret, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2007, 952 pages (translated and updated from Droit comparé de l’arbitrage international, with J.-.F. Poudret, Zurich: Schulthess, 2002, 1179 pages).
2. The Utility of State Laws Regulating International Commercial Arbitration and Their Compatibility with the FAA, in 11 American Review of International Arbitration 211 (2000).
3. Arbitrage international et mesures provisoires, Zurich: Schulthess, 1998, 424 pages.

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at Catholic University Law School in Milan

Teaches the intensive course: Jurisdictional Immunities

1. Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism, ed., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004, 549 pages.
2. L’immunité des Etats et les violations graves des droits de l’homme: la fonction de l’interprète dans la détermination du droit international, in 2004 Revue générale de droit international public 63.
3. Immunity v. Human Rights: the Pinochet Case, in 10 European Journal of International Law 237 (1999).

Professor of Law and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organizations at the University of Geneva
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Co-teaches the first general course: The Organization of International Dispute Settlement

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has gained a wide-ranging reputation in academic circles for her contribution to international law, in such fields as the law of international organizations, international economic law and international environmental law, while at the same time being recognized for her practical work as Senior Counsel to the World Bank and as advisor to many international organizations. In the field of dispute settlement she has served as chairperson of WTO arbitration panels on pre-shipment inspections and has pleaded before the ICJ and other dispute settlement procedures. She is a member of the WTO indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panellists, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the PCA Operational Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and the Environment. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has been professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva since 1999. She is a visiting professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and has been invited as guest lecturer in numerous universities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes is a member of many editorial and advisory boards, including those of the European Journal of International Law, the International Organizations Law Review and the Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. She was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Centennial of the American Society of International Law and is a member of scientific associations and a director of research projects funded by Swiss and French agencies. She has authored and edited 14 books and has written over a hundred articles.

She holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute (summa cum laude), the Bar exam (France), a JD and a master degree in private law from the University of Lyon III, a BA in sociology from the University of Lyon II and a Diploma in Political Science from the Institute of Political Sciences (Lyon).

1. International Organizations and International Dispute Settlement: Trends and Prospects (with C. Romano and R. Mackenzie (eds.)), New York, Ardsley, Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2002, 283 p.
2. International Law, The International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons (with P. Sands (eds.)), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 592 p.
3. "La procédure consultative de la Cour internationale de justice et la promotion de la règle de droit : remarques sur les conditions d'accès et de participation", in Völkerrecht als Wertordnung - Common Values in International Law, Essays in Honour of Christian Tomuschat (P.-M. Dupuy, B. Fassbender, M. N. Shaw, K.-P. Sommermann (eds.)), Engel Verlag, Kehl, 2006, pp. 479-493.
4. "Arbitration at the WTO: A Terra Incognita to be Further Explored", in Law in the Service of Human Dignity, (S. Charnovitz, D. P. Steger and P. Van den Bossche (eds.)), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 181-201.
5. "Making the Proceedings Public and Allowing Third-Party Interventions - Are the New Generation Bilateral Investment Treaties (U.S., Canada) Bifurcating Investment Arbitration from International Commercial Arbitration?", The Journal of World Investment & Trade, 2005, pp. 105-112.

Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; former judge at the European Court of Human Rights; member of the International Law Commission

Teaches the intensive course: The Concept of Due Process in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

One of Switzerland's most renowned international law and human rights law scholars, Lucius Caflisch, born in 1936, is an Honorary Professor of the Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, which he directed between 1984 and 1990. He also was one of the better-known judges at the European Court of Human Rights, between 1998 and 2006, a time during which he was one of the main contributors of the Court's case law on due process. Earlier in his career, he was a legal advisor to the Swiss Federal Departement of Foreign Affairs, a capacity in which he represented Switzerland at major international negotiations leading, inter alia, to the creation of the international criminal court. He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission, of the Institute of International Law, of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in the Framework of the OSCE.

1. "New practice regarding the implementation of the judgments of the Strasbourg Court", in Italian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 25, 2005, p. 3,
2. "Cent ans de règlement pacifique des différends interétatiques", in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 288, 2001, p. 245.
3. The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Between States: Universal and European Perspectives (ed.), Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1998.

Professor of Law at the University of Paris XII; Chair of Shearman & Sterling’s international arbitration practice; Chair of the International Arbitration Institute

Teaches the intensive course: ICSID Arbitration

1. State Entities in International Arbitration, ed., New York: Juris Publishing, 2007, 350 pages.
2. La jurisprudence du CIRDI, Paris: Pedone, 2004, 1105 pages.
3. Fouchard, Gaillard, Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999, 1320 pages.

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Director of Le Journal du droit international
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Teaches the intensive course: Contrats d’Etats

1. Droit du commerce international, with P. Delebecque and S. Corneloup, Paris: Dalloz, 2007, 851 pages.
2. Le contrat international, with P. Delebecque, Paris: Dalloz, 1999 (now in its second edition), 1999.
3. La function supranationale de la règle de conflit de lois, in 292 Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 147 (2001).

Professor of Law at the University of Geneva; Founder and Partner in Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler
Director of the Program

Co-teaches the first general course: The Organization of International Dispute Settlement

1. Arbitrage international: droit et pratique à la lumière de la LDIP, with A. Rigozzi, Bern: Weblaw, 2006, 381 pages.
2. Online Dispute Resolution: Challenges for Contemporary Justice, with T. Schultz, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004, 384 pages.
3. Arbitration at the Olympics – Issues of Fast-Track Dispute Resolution and Sports Law, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 162 pages.

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

1. Possession contestée et souveraineté territoriale, Paris, P.U.F.,1997, 582 p., Paul Guggenheim Prize 1997.
2. State Practice Regarding State Immunities/ La pratique des Etats concernant les immunités des Etats (co-ed. with Gerhard Hafner and Susan Breau), Leiden, M. Nijhoff and Council of Europe, 2006, xxviii+1100p.
3. Secession. International Law Perspectives (ed). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 510p.

Associate Professor at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration in China

1. (Co-author) Law and Practice of International Trade, Press of China University of Political Science and Law, 2002
2. (Co-author) International Commercial Arbitration, China Renmin University Press, 2007
3. Internationalization of Chinese Arbitration, ICC China International Commercial Arbitration Yearbook (2005), China Democracy and Legal Press, 2006
4. Treatment to the Service Application of Anti-suit Injunction of English Court, Guide and Study on China’s Foreign-related Commercial and Maritime Trials, vol. 2 (2007), Court Press, 2007

Counsellor, Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organisation; Associate Professor of Law at Geneva University

Teaches the intensive course: WTO Dispute Settlement

1. Balance and Coherence by the WTO Appellate Body: Who Could Do Better?, in The WTO at 10: The Role of the Dispute Settlement System, G. Sacerdoti, A. Yanovich and J. Bohanes (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 326-347.
2. The WTO Dispute Settlement and Human Rights, 13 European Journal of International Law 75 (2002).
3. Antidumping and Antitrust Issues in Free-Trade Areas, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press Collection, 1994, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995, 725 pages.

Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project and Chair of the Program on Negotiation

Teaches the intensive course: Negotiation

A leading expert in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Robert H. Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems; both public and private. An experienced mediator, Prof. Robert Mnookin has successfully mediated many complex commercial disputes which involved advanced technologies and intellectual property. He has written or edited nine books and numerous scholarly articles. A renowned teacher and lecturer, Prof. Robert Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills.

1. Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes, with S.R. Peppet and A.S. Tulumello, new ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004, 368 pages.
2. "Strategic Barriers to Dispute Resolution: A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiations", 8 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1 (2003).
3. "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce", with L. Kornhauser, 88 Yale L.J. 950 (1979).

Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Professor of International Law at the Law School of the University of Chile, founder and former co-Director of the University of Chile-University of Heidelberg joint LL. M. Program on International Law, Trade, Investments and Arbitration.

Teaches the intensive course: Recent issues of investment arbitration in Latin America

An active international lawyer and international arbitration specialist in Latin America, Francisco Orrego Vicuña is Professor of International Law at the Law School of the University of Chile and is the founder and former co-Director of the University of Chile-University of Heidelberg joint LL. M. Program on International Law, Trade, Investments and Arbitration. He has also held visiting professorships at Stanford, Paris and Miami Law School. Professor Orrego Vicuña has authored or co-authored over 60 books on international arbitration, dispute resolution and the law of the sea (five of which with Cambridge University Press), as well as over 70 articles in major international law journals and publications. He was President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal from 2001 to 2004, has been a Judge at this Tribunal since 1992, was Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1985 and was president of the Institut de droit international from 2005 to 2007, of which he has been a member since 1991. He has also been a member of the Court of the LCIA and its Vice President. Francisco Orrego Vicuña is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID by appointment of the Chairman of the Administrative Council of ICSID and has presided or participated as arbitrator in over 15 ICSID tribunal panels. He has also acted as arbitrator in very large number of NAFTA, LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL arbitrations, and has been a member of a dispute settlement panel in the WTO concerning a major dispute between the European Community and the United States.

1. International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures, 2001, Cambridge University Press 2004
2. "New Dispute Settlement Procedures", in Edith Brown Weiss, Andrés Rigo Sureda and Lawrence Boisson de Chazournes (eds.): The World Bank, International Financial Institutions, and the Development of International Law, American Society of International Law, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, Nº31, 1999, 59-73.
3. "Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Most-Favored-Nation Clause: Implications for Arbitration in the Light of a Recent ICSID Case", G. Kaufmann-Kohler and B. Stucki (ed.): Investment Treaties and Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration Association, 2002, 133-144."

Professor of Law at Boston University; Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration in the United States

Frequently described as one of the most brilliant minds in the field of international arbitration, William “Rusty” Park is Professor of Law at Boston University, where he served as Director of the university’s Center For Banking and Financial Law and now engages in research and teaching on international arbitration, conflict of laws, tax and international finance. He has chaired arbitral tribunals in the United States, Canada and Europe before all major international arbitration institutions. Park was appointed by the Federal Reserve Board Chairman to the Claims Resolutions Tribunal in Zurich, charged with resolving claims by Holocaust victims and their heirs against Swiss banks, and serves on the Appeals Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. He has held visiting appointments at universities in six different countries, including Cambridge University. Professor Park is also General Editor of the most distinguished academic journal in the field, Arbitration International.– He serves as Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration, and is a member of ICCA, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. He holds a Master’s degree from Cambridge University, a J.D. from Columbia law School and a B.A. from Yale.

1. Arbitration of International Business Disputes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 776 pages.
2. International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration, with W.L. Craig and J. Paulsson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 (Third Edition), 952 pages.
3. International Commercial Arbitration, with W.M. Reisman, Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1997, 1346 pages.
4. International Sorum Selection, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995, 725 pages.

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

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.

1. International Arbitration is Not Arbitration, 2 (2008) Stockholm International Arbitration Review (2008) p. 1
2. Arbitration Without Privity, 10(2) ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal p. 232 (Fall 1995)
3. Enclaves of Justice (Lecture given at the Rule of Law Conference, University of Richmond School of Law, 12 April 2007)
4. Arbitration Unbound: Award Detached from the Law of its Country of Origin, International and Comparative Law Quarterly (April 1981) p. 358

Lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel

Teaches the intensive course: Sports Arbitration

Antonio Rigozzi, born in 1969, teaches sports law and arbitration law at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and is a partner in the law firm Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler. His research and teaching focuses on international arbitration and sports law, and everything in between. Author of a comprehensive treatise on sports arbitration, he also is the editor in charge of the sports law section of the Swiss law journal JusLetter, a member of the sports law scientific board of the Swiss Lawyers Association and of the Swiss Arbitration Association. He has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and holds a summa cum laude Ph.D., a Master of Laws and a J.D. from Geneva University Law School; he also graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies.

1. Arbitrage international: droit et pratique à la lumière de la LDIP, with G. Kaufmann-Kohler, Bern: Weblaw, 2006, 381 pages.
2. L'arbitrage international en matière de sport, Basle: Helbing&Lichtenhahn, 2005, 904 pages.
3. Die Revision von Schiedssprüchen nach dem 12. Kapitel des IPRG, with M. Schöll, Basle: Helbing&Lichtenhahn, 2002, 72 pages.

Senior Lecturer (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at Geneva University Law School
Executive Director of the Program

Teaches the intensive course: Philosophical Aspects of Dispute Settlement: An Introduction

Already at the top of the field of online dispute resolution before he extended his focus to the legal theory aspects of dispute settlement, Thomas Schultz, born in 1976, a Senior Research Scholar at Geneva University Law School, has concentrated his scholarship on what legal theory might teach international arbitration and vice versa. In this context, he has worked with some of the most prominent experts in both arbitration (Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler) and legal theory (Matthew Kramer, Cambridge, and François Ost, Brussels), and has published in distinguished journals of both fields. A prolific writer, having authored and co-authored three books by the age of 30, he did a postdoc at Cambridge University, has been an external expert for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and is a founding member of the Geneva Ph.D. School in international dispute settlement. He earned a summa cum laude Ph.D. from Geneva University Law School and an LL.M. from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels), which he obtained antichronologically before his graduation from Geneva University Law School. He is the Executive Director of the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement.

1. Information Technology and Arbitration – A Practitioner’s Guide, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2006, 241 pages.
2. Réguler le commerce électronique par la résolution des litiges en ligne, Brussels: Bruylant, 2005, 692 pages.
3. Online Dispute Resolution: Challenges for Contemporary Justice, with G. Kaufmann-Kohler, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004, 384 pages.

Professor of Law and Director of the Research Centre in International Law at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

Brigitte Stern is Professor of International Law at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Director of the CERDIN-Paris I, Centre of Research in International Law. She has been invited as a visiting Professor in many universities or schools: Diplomatic School in Daar-es-Salam, Institute of Foreign Languages at Shanghai, Global Law School Program at New York University, Tokyo University, Sao Paulo University, and so on. More specifically she has been a Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva for eight years.
She is also an Expert for International Organizations and Governments – for example, she has been a member of the legal team of the Bosnian Government in the Genocide Case against Yugoslavia before the International Court of Justice. She works as a Counsel in several arbitrations – as well as an International Arbitrator (Sole Arbitrator, Member or President) in numerous ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL and NAFTA arbitrations. She is also a Member of WTO List of Panellists, nominated by France, and a Member of the General List of Arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She has been for 7 years, until October 2005, the President of the French Commission for the Elimination of Landmines, and is presently a Judge of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT).
She holds a Master’s degree and a JD from the University of Strasbourg, a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (MCJ) from New-York University, and a PhD from the University of Paris. She passed the Paris Bar exam and is "Agrégée" of the Law Faculties (1970).

1. Le préjudice dans la théorie de la responsabilité internationale, Paris, Pedone, 1973, 382 p. (under the name of Brigitte Bollecker-Stern) ;
2. 20 ans de jurisprudence de la Cour internationale de Justice. 1975-1995, La Haye, Nijhoff, 1998, 1055 p.
3. La succession d’Etats, cours de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye, RCADI, tome 262, La Haye, Kluwer, 2000, 437 p.
4. 0 Contencioso dos Investimentos Internacionais, Brazil, Manole, Série Entender o mundo, 2003, 142 p.
5. La jurisprudence de l'OMC/The Case Law of the WTO, Brigitte Stern and Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Sous la direction de/Edited by), Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, Pub. Four titles are already published : “1996-1997”, published in.2004, 354 p.; “1998-1”, published in 2005, 283 p.; “1998-2”, published in 2006, 224 p.; 1991-1, published in 2007.

1. «Trois arbitrages, un même problème, trois solutions : les nationalisations pétrolières libyennes devant l'arbitrage international », Revue de l'arbitrage, 1980, pp. 1-43.
2. « Un coup d’arrêt à la marginalisation du consentement dans l’arbitrage international » (A propos de l’arrêt de la Cour d’appel de Paris du 1er Juin 1999) », Revue de l’arbitrage, 2000, n° 3, pp. 403-427.
3. « Le consentement à l’arbitrage CIRDI en matière d’investissement international : que disent les travaux préparatoires ? », in les Mélanges Philippe Kahn, Souveraineté étatique et marchés internationaux à la fin du XXième siècle Paris, Litec, 2000, pp. 223-244.
4. « L’entrée de la société civile dans l’arbitrage entre Etat et investisseur », Revue de l’arbitrage, 2002, N° 2, pp. 329-345.
5. « Un petit pas de plus : l’installation de la société civile dans l’arbitrage CIRDI entre Etat et investisseur », Revue de l’arbitrage, 2007, N° 1, pp. 3-43.

Honorary Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Honorary Professor at the University of Fribourg

Teaches the intensive course: ICC Arbitration

For over a generation, Pierre Tercier, born in 1943, has been one of the most respected legal scholars in the country. He has authored more than 250 legal writings, focusing on contract law and international arbitration, among which there are several treatises that have become instant classics. He has extensive experience in international arbitration, having chaired the ICC International Court of Arbitration and having served many times in ICC cases. Pierre Tercier was also Chairman of the Swiss Commission on Competition, the Swiss Cartel Commission and the Swiss Insurance Law Society. He has researched and taught law at many universities, including Cambridge University, Columbia Law School, the Max-Planck Institut for private international law in Hamburg and the Universities of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and Paris IV. He also has been Dean of Fribourg University Law School.

1. Les contrats spéciaux, Zurich: Schulthess, 2003 (now in its third edition), 1129 pages.
2. Le référé pré-arbitral, in 2004 ASA Bulletin 464.
3. Le droit de l'arbitrage et le droit de la concurrence, in 2000 ASA Bulletin 688.

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)

Director of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration and Mediation of Intellectual Property Disputes at WIPO

Erik Wilbers, born in 1958, is the Director of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Before joining WIPO in 1996, he headed a division of the Compensation Commission of the United Nations Security Council dealing with claims arising from the Gulf War, was on the legal staff of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague and practiced with the largest law firm in the world, Clifford Chance. His experience made him an expert on the administration of mass claims and on the use of information technology in arbitration. Erik Wilbers studied law in the United States and the Netherlands, and was a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for intellectual property law in Munich.

1. The UDRP: Design Elements of an Effective ADR Mechanism, with Nicholas Smith, in 15 American Review of International Arbitration 215 (2004).
2. On-Line Arbitration of Electronic Commerce Disputes, in 27 International Business Lawyer 273 (1999).
3. Fees and Costs: Articles 67 to 72, in 9 American Review of International Arbitration 205 (1998).