Consent in Context Fulfilling the Promise of International Arbitration (Multiparty, Multi-Contract, and Non-Contract Arbitration), 2011 ed.

Karim Youssef

Dr. Youssef is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, in the firm's Paris office, where his practice focuses on international arbitration and international law. He joined the firm in 2008. He has experience in complex multiparty proceedings and investor-state arbitrations, particularly involving Middle Eastern parties or applicable law. Before joining the firm, he acted as counsel for the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the ministry of Justice of Egypt, the Egyptian Capital Market Authority, and the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University in Chicago. He also lectures on private and international law at Cairo University, School of Law.

 
 Youssef is a member of the bar in Cairo. He received doctor of the science of law (J.S.D.) and masters of laws (LL.M.) degrees from Yale in 2007 and 2002. He also received a D.E.A. in private and international law and a Maîtrise in private law from Paris-1 University (Sorbonne) in 2001 and 2000. He also earned a D.E.S. in private law and a J.D., with honors, from Cairo University School of Law, in 2000 and 1999.


 
 Youssef is widely published on various aspects of international arbitration. Among his recent publications are The Death of Inarbitrability, in Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives (Loukas Mistelis and Stavros Brekoulakis eds., Kluwer Law International 2009); and The Independence of International Arbitrators: An Arbitrators Perspective (with Ahmed S. El-Kosheri), ICC Intl. Court of Arb. Bull., 2007 Special Supplement, ICC Pub. 690 (2008). He is a member, inter alia, of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the Commission Working Group on the Reform of the 1998 ICC Rules, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), le Comité Français de l'Arbitrage (CFA), l'Association Française de l'Arbitrage (AFA), l'Association Suisse de l'arbitrage (ASA), the National Law Commission of Egypt (NLC), and the Commission on the Reform of the Egyptian Arbitration Law. Youssef serves regularly as an arbitrator in domestic and international proceedings, ad hoc (UNCITRAL) and institutional. His native language is Arabic, and he is fluent in English and French.