About the Editors:
Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M. Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies where he is Director of the School of International Arbitration. He maintains a selective arbitration and consulting practice in respect of international commercial and investment disputes, secured transactions and complex contractual matters, including e-commerce and technology matters. He has also participated in a number of experts groups, including for the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the International Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL and UNCTAD. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University School of Law, Keio University in Tokyo and teaches at the NYU in London program.
Laurence Shore is a dual U.S./U.K. qualified Partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm's International Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Shore's practice focuses on international arbitration. He has been the lead advocate in a large number of arbitration cases under, for example, the ICC, LCIA, AAA, UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules. He also has sat as an arbitrator in cases under the ICC, Cairo Regional Centre, and LCIA Rules. In addition to his work as an arbitration practitioner, Mr. Shore has tried cases in the United States courts and in England's High Court. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Shore was a Partner at Herbert Smith in London, where he practiced since 1995, serving as the Head of the international arbitration group since 2005.
Hans Smit is the Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. Professor Smit is acknowledged as an internationally renowned expert in the fields of International Law and Arbitration and has published numerous books and articles on International Arbitration and International Law and Procedure. Professor Smit has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and has consulted on legal reform at the World Bank. He is also a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and International Academy of Comparative Law. From 1960 to 1969 Professor Smit was a Reporter to the U.S. Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure. He is a former Adviser to the U.S. Delegation to UNCITRAL..
About the Contributors:
Angola - Agostinho Pereira de Miranda, Chairman of the Portuguese law firm Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados; Cláudia Leonardo, Senior Associate, Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados
Australia - Alex Baykitch, Partner, Holman Fenwick Willan LLP & Regional Head of International Arbitration
Austria - Stefan Riegler, Partner Baker & McKenzie; Christian Koller, Senior Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Vienna and University of Zurich
Azerbaijan - Sona Taghiyeva, Associate, Salans; Kamil Valiyev, Senior Associate, Salans
Belgium - Ank Santens, Partner, White & Case LLP; Olivier Van Outryve, Independent Lawyer based in Brussels
Belarus - Alexey Anischenko, Partner, SORAINEN
Bulgaria - Angel Ganev, Partner, DGKV law firm & Head of the Litigation and International Arbitration practices
Croatia - Alan Uzelac, Professor of Law at the Zagreb University
Czech Republic - Alexander Bĕlohlávek, Managing Partner, Belohlavek Law Offices
Egypt - Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Partner, Abdel Raouf Law Firm; Secretary-General, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
England and Wales - Guy Pendell, Solicitor Advocate & Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Germany - Stephan Wilske, Partner, Gleiss Lutz; Lars Markert, Associate, Gleiss Lutz
Guatemala - Luis Fernando Bermejo Quiñónez, Partner, Bermejo & Asociados
Hungary - Andrea Vincze, Adjunct Professor of Law and Fellow of the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace Law School
Iceland - Gardar V. Gunnarsson, Attorney at Law at LEX Law Offices in Reykjavik
Iran - Jamal Seifi, Judge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); Shahbiz Shafe, Attorney, legal advisor to international corporations working in Iran and university lecturer
Ireland - John P. Gaffney, Attorney with the International Arbitration Group, King & Spalding
Israel - Daphna Kapeliuk, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
Jamaica - Christopher Malcolm, Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands
Japan - Masafumi Kodama, Partner, Kitahama Partners
Korea, Republic of - John Rhie, Partner, Kim & Chang
Kyrgyzstan - Nurzhan Albanov, Attorney, Salans; Aizhan Albanova, Legal Counsel, KOC
Latvia - Galina Žukova, Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Inga Kačevska, Attorney at Law, Law Office of Inga Kacevska and a Lecturer at the University of Latvia
Malaysia - Tan Sri Cecil Abraham, Senior Partner with Zul Rafique & Partners; Thayananthan Baskaran, Partner with Zul Rafique & Partners
Mexico - Reynaldo Urtiaga, Bryan, Gonzalez Vargas & Gonzalez Baz, S.C.; Professor of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
New Zealand - Daniel Kalderimis, Principal in the dispute resolution team, Chapman Tripp
Norway - Anders Ryssdal, Partner, Wiersholm in Oslo; Kristian S. Myrbakk, Senior Lawyer, Wiersholm; and June Snemyr, Associate, Kluge Advokatfirma DA
Paraguay - José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, Secretary General of the American Association of Private International Law; Member of the Working Group on Choice of Law in International Contracts of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
Peru - Eduardo Barboza, Senior Partner, Estudio Echecopar
Portugal - Agostinho Pereira de Miranda, Chairman, Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados; Tânia Cascais, Senior Associate, Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados
Romania - Crina Baltag, PhD. Candidate (Queen Mary University of London), LL.M. (Stockholm), Master in International Business (Bucharest), Attorney-at-law (Romania)
Russian Federation - Ivan Marisin, Senior Partner & Head of the litigation and dispute resolution practice, Clifford Chance; Roman Khodykin, Counsel in the litigation and dispute resolution practice group, Clifford Chance
Saudi Arabia - Torki A. Alshubaiki, Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Serbia - Vladimir Pavić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law
Singapore - Nicholas Song, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Slovakia - Petra Holla, Associate, Wolf Theiss Bratislava
Slovenia - Aleš Galič, Professor of Civil Procedural Law, University of Ljubljana
Spain - Pilar Perales Viscasillas, Chair of Commercial Law at the University of La Rioja
Switzerland - Philippe Bärtsch, Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer; Dorothee Schramm, Associate, Schellenberg Wittmer
Thailand - Thawatchai Suvanpanich, Law Lecturer at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
Tunisia - Sami Houerbi, Partner of BK & Associés
Turkey - Ali Yeşilırmak, Kadir Has University Law Faculty
Uganda - Phillip Bliss Aliker, Barrister of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple at Tanfield Chambers
Ukraine - Olexander Martinenko, Senior Partner and Head of Commercial Practice, CMS Cameron McKenna; Yaroslav Petrov, Associate, CMS Cameron McKenna; and Oleksandr Gudko, Associate, CMS Cameron McKenna
