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Maria Chiara Malaguti

Maria Chiara was appointed President of UNIDROIT in August 2020. She is the first woman being appointed to this position. She is Full Professor of International law …

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Pierre Tercier

Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Honorary Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration

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Troy Harris

Troy Harris serves as arbitrator and mediator in complex construction and commercial disputes, with a particular focus on matters under U.S. and Canadian law…

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Chiara Cellerino

Chiara Cellerino is associate professor of EU Law at the University of Genoa. She holds a Ph.D. in EU Law from the University of Udine…

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Simon Hughes

Simon Hughes QC is a specialist silk in major construction, engineering, shipbuilding and other off-shore and energy related dispute…

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Nikos Lavranos

Nikos is an expert in investment law & arbitration who has expertise in advising, litigating, negotiating, ….

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Pietro Ortolani

Pietro Ortolani is a Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution. He holds a law degree from the University of Pisa and a Ph.D. in arbitration from …

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Chloe J. Carswell

Chloe’s practice focuses on international arbitration, in particular investment treaty arbitration and public international law …

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Naomi Briercliffe

Naomi represents clients in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations, and has also advised on state-to-state disputes …

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Federica Bocci

Federica Bocci is a Lead Lawyer in DLA Piper’s litigation and regulatory practice, based in Milan, Italy…

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Mauro Rubino-Sammartano

Mauro Rubino-Sammartano is a Chartered Arbitrator. He is admitted to the Italian and to the Paris Bar and is an associate member, as an international arbitrator…

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Albert Henke

Albert Henke is Jean Monnet Professor of Multilevel, Multiparty and Multisector Cross-Border Litigation in Europe at Università…..

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Ruggero Rubino-Sammartano

Ruggero Rubino Sammartano is an Italian and French licensed practitioner, with 20 years of practice, focusing on…..

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Michele Potestà

Michele Potestà specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration. Over the past ten years, 

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Crina Baltag

Dr Crina Baltag is Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration at Stockholm University and co-director of the….

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Nikos Lavranos

Nikos is an expert in investment law & arbitration who has expertise in advising, litigating, negotiating, ….

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Albert Henke

Albert Henke is Jean Monnet Professor of Multilevel, Multiparty and Multisector Cross-Border Litigation in Europe at Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy), where he is also Aggregate Professor of Transnational Commercial Litigation, International Commercial and Investment Arbitration and Module Moot Court. He is also Research Fellow and Lecturer (“Ricercatore”) of Civil Procedure at the same University. His main areas of scientific interests are domestic, comparative, European and international civil procedure, multilevel judicial interaction and conflicts, domestic, international commercial and investment arbitration, private international law and legal advocacy, in respect of which he has authored more than 50 publications, in Italian and in English. He is the founder and scientific coordinator of the Centre of Research on European and Transnational Dispute Settlement (https://sites.unimi.it/translitigation/); founder and scientific coordinator of EUCP, a webplatform on European Civil Procedure (http://sites.unimi.it/EUCivilProcedure/); founder and scientific co-coordinator of the Milan Investment Arbitration Week; founder and scientific co-coordinator of the Summer School on International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation (Gargnano, BS, Italy – 2011). He is the Senior Coach and Supervisor of the Statale teams annualy taking part in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vienna), in the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court (Frankfurt) and in the PAX Moot (Science Po, Paris). He has been granted two EU-funded Jean Monnet Modules (on “European Civil Procedure in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective” – 2015-2018 and on “Multilevel, Multiparty and Multisector Cross-Border Litigation in Europe” – 2020-2023). Prof. Henke has delivered speeches at conferences, seminars, workshops, Ph.D and Master Programs in Europe, Asia, Australia and USA (among which Columbia Law School, New York). In June-July 2018 he has been Visiting Professor at the Kuwait International Law School (Kuwait City). He is member of the International Editorial Council of the Russian Law Journal and member of the Editorial Board of: International Journal of European Studies; International Arbitration Case Law (IACL); Rivista di Diritto Processuale; Il Diritto degli Affari, Diritto del Commercio Internazionale and Int’l Lis, as well as member of the Teaching Committee of several specialization courses and summer schools.

Ruggero Rubino-Sammartano

Ruggero Rubino Sammartano is an Italian and French licensed practitioner, with 20 years of practice, focusing on commercial law and international dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration). He gained experience in law firms in London New York, Paris and Munich and works on cross-border transactional matters from a commercial and corporate law perspective. Rubino Sammartano is Co-editor-in-chief of the law review “Il Foro Padano” and is member of the Board of Directors of the European Court of Arbitration. He regularly lectures on arbitration and mediation and publishes in these fields in different languages.

Michele Potestà

Michele Potestà specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration. Over the past ten years, Michele has participated in over 30 international investment and commercial arbitrations as counsel, arbitrator and secretary of the tribunal, under all major arbitral rules (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCAI, CAM, DIAC, Danish Institute of Arbitration, and others), and in different jurisdictions. Michele’s areas of expertise include energy and natural resources (oil, gas, mining and solar energy), pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, international sales, banking and finance, services, shareholders disputes, real estate and construction, aviation and IT, among others. Michele has also advised sovereign states on their investment treaty programs. Michele is regularly appointed as arbitrator. He has sat as president of the tribunal, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under various rules, including the rules of the ICC, the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the Danish Institute of Arbitration, and the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration. He is listed in the panel of arbitrators at VIAC, LCIA, SIAC, AIAC, and Delos. In 2020, Michele was named the most highly regarded individual in Europe by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration: Future Leaders (Non-Partners), where he was described as a “super smart” and “simply outstanding” lawyer, and commended for his “great breadth and depth of learning on investment treaty arbitration”. Michele is also a senior researcher at the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS) where he co-leads a research project on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”). He is an adjunct professor at the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), for which he teaches investment arbitration. He has authored numerous publications on issues of investment and commercial arbitration and is frequently invited to speak at arbitration conferences. An Italian national, Michele is qualified to practice law in Italy and registered with the Geneva bar (foreign lawyers section). He holds a Ph.D., a bachelor and a master’s degree from the University of Milan. Michele speaks English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish.

Crina Baltag

Dr Crina Baltag is Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration at Stockholm University and co-director of the International Commercial Arbitration Law (ICAL) LL.M. at Stockholm University. Crina is a qualified attorney-at-law since 2004, with extensive practice in various aspects on international dispute resolution, private and public international law. Crina is member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute (SCC) Board. Crina’s publications include The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor [Wolters Kluwer, 2012]; ICSID Convention after 50 Years: Unsettled Issues [Wolters Kluwer, 2017]; The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU [co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2020] etc. and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews, including on the Denial of Benefits in Investment Law [co-author; Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law , Oxford University Press, 2019]. Crina is the editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, co-managing editor of ITA Arbitration Report and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field, including of the Journal of International Arbitration. Crina has been appointed in numerous arbitrations, as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and CCIR-Romania. Crina holds a PhD degree in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (UK), LL.M in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden), M.Sc. in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), LL.B. from University of Bucharest (Romania).

Nikos Lavranos

Nikos is an expert in investment law & arbitration who has expertise in advising, litigating, negotiating, drafting legislation and providing expert witness reports. His clients are both investors and States. He combines his experience as arbitrator, mediator, legal consultant, academic and former policy maker and chief negotiator for Bilateral Investment Treaties. In addition to investment law & arbitration, Nikos also covers WTO law, EU law and the interaction between public international law, European law and national law. Nikos also established a BREXIT ADVISORY CENTRE to provide bespoke advice on the consequences of BREXIT. He can provide his services in English, Dutch and German. Moreover, he understands French, Greek and Italian. Nikos studied law at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He obtained his LL.M. (cum laude) and PhD degrees from Maastricht University. In 2008-2009 Nikos was Max Weber Fellow at the EUI in Florence. He is permanent contributor to the Kluwer Arbitration blog, Borderlex, the EFILA blog and the Practical Law Arbitration blog.