Professor, Columbia Law School,
Director, Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (CICIA)
International commercial arbitrator
Expert on foreign law and transnational litigation & arbitration
Professeur affilié, Ecole de droit, Sciences Po (Paris)
Chief Reporter, ALI Restatement of US Law of International Commercial Arbitration
Founding member, Governing Board, ICC Court of International Arbitration
Co-Author, UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention
Chair, board of advisers, New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
Member, Academic Council, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Director, American Arbitration Association
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Co-editor-in-chief American Review of International Arbitration
Member Board of Editors, Revue de l’Arbitrage
J.D. Yale Law School
Doctor honoris causa, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Université de Versailles-San
Quentin, France.
Publications include:
Mandatory Rules in International Arbitration (Juris 2011);
Navigating EU Law and the Law of International Arbitration, 28 Arb. Int’l 397 (2012)
Arbitrability Trouble, 23 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 367 (2012)
The “Gateway Problem” in International Commercial Arbitration, 37 Yale Journal of International Law 1
(2012)
The Supreme Court Trilogy and its Impact on U.S. Arbitration Law, 22 Amer. Rev. Int’l Arb. 551 (2011) American Exceptionalism in International Arbitration, in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration
and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2011 (Arthur Rovine, ed.) 3 (Martinus Nijhoff 2012)
The UK Supreme Court Speaks to International Arbitration: Learning from the Dallah Case, 22 American
Review of International Arbitration 1 (2011)
Domesticating the New York Convention: The Impact of the Federal Arbitration Act, 2011 Journal of
International Dispute Settlement 317 (2011)