Maria Alcover Llubi received her Degree in Law at the University of Barcelona in 2009. She participated in the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, winning the Regional Round in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Maria also holds a Degree in Translation and Interpretation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She completed her LL.M in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) in 2010 and worked as a stagiaire in the Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Unit at the European Commission (Brussels). She is currently on an internship at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat (Geneva).
Todd Allee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on international organizations, international trade, the World Trade Organization, foreign direct investment, international law, and dispute settlement. He has authored a book and more than a dozen articles and chapters on the escalation and settlement of territorial, trade, and investment disputes. His research has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and The World Economy.
Jos E. Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University Law School. A former president of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), his 2009 Hague Academy lectures, entitled "The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment," will soon be published. A collection of essays, which he co-edited with others, The Evolving International Investment Regime was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
Alberto Alvarez-Jimnez, Colombian citizen, received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa where he is an adjunct professor and teaches international law. He regularly speaks at conferences about investor-State arbitration and international trade law. He has published more than twenty articles often in leading peer-reviewed or American specialty law journals. He is also an international consultant.
Nicholas J. Birch is a recent J.D./M.B.A. graduate of Georgetown University Law Center who has been involved in research and writing on various aspects of international investment law, including assisting Professors Wallace, Dugan, and Sabahi of Georgetown in writing Investor State Arbitration (2008), as well as co-authoring multiple articles. He has also been a contributing case reporter to Oxford University Press's Investment Claims, and has consulted on business projects internationally.
Tegan Brink is Counsel at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) in Geneva. Previously she was a diplomat and trade negotiator at the Australian Permanent Mission to the UN and WTO. She also served in the Legal Branch and Office of Trade Negotiations at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, providing policy and legal advice, including on bilateral trade and investment treaties. She has an LL.M. from Columbia which she attended as a Fulbright scholar, and a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Sydney.
Colin Brown is a lawyer in the Directorate General for Trade, European Commission, and a visiting lecturer in international economic law at the Universit Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He holds degrees from the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and from the College of Europe.
Angelos Dimopoulos is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University and Research Coordinator of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center. He obtained his Ph.D. in Law at the European University Institute and holds masters degrees from the Universities of Cambridge (LL.M.) and Hannover (M.L.E.). He is a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association and he has worked as a practicing lawyer in Greece and as an intern for the European Commission. His research interests lie in the areas of EU internal market law, external relations law and international economic law.
Persephone Economou is a consultant at the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Beforehand she was the Managing Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, where she co-edited a special issue on International Business Negotiations. Previously she was a staff member at UNCTAD in Geneva and at the Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York. She has been involved extensively in the World Investment Report series and was the Associate Editor of Transnational Corporations. She has been a consultant to various organizations, including the World Bank's Development Economics.
Katia Fach G¢mez teaches international arbitration and conflict of laws at the University of Zaragoza. Additionally, she has lectured at numerous European and Latin American Universities. She graduated summa cum laude in Spain, holds a European Ph.D. summa cum laude in international environmental law and an LL.M. summa cum laude from Fordham University. She was Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and Post-Doctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut. Her articles have appeared in a number of peer-reviewed law reviews. Admitted to the Spanish Bar, she has been involved in many international litigation and arbitration
cases.
Mark Feldman is Assistant Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He previously served as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar.
Daniel M. Firger is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia Law School and Associate Director of the Columbia Center for Climate Change Law, where he works to develop and promulgate legal techniques to address climate change. He holds a J.D. from NYU Law School, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and Executive Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. He received a Master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he concentrated in International Relations.
Susan D. Franck is an Associate Professor at Washington & Lee University. She is the author of articles published in the American Journal of International Law, Fordham Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and Washington University Law Review. She has served as a Scholar-in-Residence at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and previously practiced at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and at Allen & Overy in London, U.K. She has been the recipient of a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Grant, the OGEMID Best Article of the Year Award and the American Society of International Law's "New Voices" award.
Calvin P. Garbin is the John Weaver Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His scholarship and teaching focuses upon exploring innovative internet and media-based methods to improve student learning, especially in teaching research methods and statistical analysis as well as improving undergraduate research participation. His expertise in psychometrics, multivariate statistics and research design have generated collaborations in other research areas, including therapeutic and behavioral outcome research, personnel selection and identification of at-risk populations. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Texas-Arlington.
Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. He also holds a joint appointment to the faculty of Columbia University's Earth Institute. Between 1979 and 2008, he practiced environmental law in New York, most recently as managing partner of the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP; he is now Senior Counsel to the firm. He is author or editor of nine books. He formerly chaired the American Bar Association's 10,000-member Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.
Jonathan Gimblett is an associate at Covington & Burling LLP and a member of the adjunct faculties of the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University Law School. Prior to studying and then practicing law, he served for 14 years as a member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service.
Gus Van Harten is Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. His research deals with topics in administrative law and international investment law. He is a co-editor of Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials, 6th edition (2010) and the author of Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law (2007) and various academic articles, available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website.
Steffen Hindelang holds a Dr. Iur. from the University of Tbingen and an LL.M. from the University of Sheffield. He is Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law including Public Law in an International Context, Free University Berlin, Department of Law; Senior Fellow at Walter Hallstein-Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt University Berlin; and Academic Adviser at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne. His research interests and advisory experiences comprise constitutional law, EU law, public international law, especially international investment law and arbitration, and comparative public law. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has authored numerous publications in English, German and Russian.
O. Thomas Johnson is a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP and an adjunct professor at the Columbia Law School, where he teaches a course on International Investment Law. Prior to joining Covington & Burling, he served as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State. He is a graduate of the Stanford Law School.
Mark Kantor is a retired partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, an international arbitrator, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Senior Research Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment and Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management. He is on the American Arbitration Association Board of Directors and Chair of the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee. He has authored numerous works, including Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (OGEMID Best Book 2008). More information is available at www.mark-kantor.com.
Edward G. Kehoe is the head of King & Spalding's litigation department in New York, and he is the co-head of the firm's world-wide international arbitration practice. He received his bachelors degree in accounting at Lehigh University, and his law degree, cum laude, from St. John's Law School where he was a member of the St. John's Law Review. He is recognized in Chambers USA, Legal 500 and other publications as one of the top attorneys in the United States for international arbitration. He is a member of the AAA/ICDR International Panel of Arbitrators, an editor of Global Arbitration Review, and a frequent writer and lecturer on international arbitration issues.
Yun-I Kim is a Research Assistant at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne, Germany. She holds a law degree from Cologne University and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Erlangen-Nrnberg. In 2010, she was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at NYU Law School. She serves as secretary to arbitral tribunals in inter-State as well as investor-State and commercial arbitration proceedings and also publishes on investment law.
Ian A. Laird is a Special Legal Consultant in the International Trade and Arbitration Group of Crowell & Moring LLP, based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He is recognized as a leading practitioner in the international investment law field and for more than a decade has been counsel to parties in investment arbitrations held under the provisions of NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and other international investment agreements. He is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Investmentclaims.com (Oxford University Press), and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Anna De Luca holds an J.D. and Ph.D. in International Law from Milan University. She is a Research Fellow in international law at Bocconi University, Milan, a member of the Milan Bar (Italy), and a Research Assistant to the President (Prof. Giorgio Sacerdoti) of the ICSID Tribunals in the cases Continental Casualty Company v. Argentine Republic and Total S.A. v. Argentine Republic.
Paul B. Maslo is an Associate in the New York office of King & Spalding. He earned his A.B. at Cornell University, M.S. at Johns Hopkins University, and J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied finance at the Wharton School of Business.
Michael D. Nolan is a partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. He has been counsel or arbitrator in cases under AAA, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and other rules. He is a director of the AAA, a member of the Panel of ICSID Arbitrators and is listed in Euromoney Guide and Chambers. He teaches at Georgetown University, is General Counsel of the Intellectual Property Owners Association and is co-editor of a collection of political risk insurance determinations (Oxford University Press). He graduated from Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School.
Parvan Parvanov holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (LL.M.) and St. Klement of Ohrid, University of Sofia (Magister Juris in Civil Law). He specializes in lawyering across legal orders and is a member of the Sofia Bar Association. He practiced business law and international arbitration in jurisdictions across the EU between 2005 and 2008 and first-chaired several international litigation and arbitration proceedings for various private clients and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Clint Peinhardt is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Dallas and specializes in international political economy and international organizations. His research investigates the interaction between sovereign governments and multinational enterprises in several contexts, including international financial liberalization, investment treaties and investor-state arbitration, and political risk insurance. Other work explores domestic political support for globalization across countries, and argues that support can be encouraged with appropriate policies. His work has thus far appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and The World Economy.
Jenna M. Perkins received her M.A. in Forensic Psychology from Castleton State College in Vermont in 2005. She received her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010. She was licensed to practice law in New York in 2011. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on studying the effect of apology in the criminal and civil justice systems, and the effects of discrimination and stigma within the framework of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act of 2008.
Philippe Pinsolle is a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris, and specializes in international arbitration. He has been involved, as counsel or arbitrator, in more than a hundred and fifty international arbitrations, both institutional (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, AFA, Swiss Rules, etc.) and ad hoc, concerning such activities as investment, oil and gas, energy, telecom or defense industry. He is a member of the Paris Bar and of the Bar of England & Wales (Gray's Inn).
Peter Rosenblum is the Lieff Cabraser Clinical Professor of Human Rights and the Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School. His recent work has been focused on the extractive sector.
Borzu Sabahi received an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center; and an M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Tehran. He is Counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, specializing in international investment and commercial arbitration. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he co-teaches a seminar on investor-State dispute resolution. He is co-director of ILI International Investment Law Center and an editor of Oxford's Investment Claims.
Karl P. Sauvant is the Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, Co-Director of the Millennium Cities Initiative, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is the author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications. In 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy and in 2011 elected Fellow of the Academy of International Investment. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.
Stephan W. Schill is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He holds a Dr. iur. from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit"t, Frankfurt am Main, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University. He is admitted to the Bar both in Germany and in New York. He has experience in inter-State dispute settlement, investor-State and commercial arbitration under various rules, including ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and SCC Rules, and has appeared as counsel before the European Court of Human Rights.
David Schneiderman is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses on Canadian and U.S. constitutional law, on international investment law and on critical global theory. Much of his scholarly production has focused on constitutional law and its linkages to investment law. His publications include numerous articles, book chapters and edited and authored books, including Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy's Promise (2008). He has been Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University.
Olivier De Schutter is professor at the University of Louvain and at the College of Europe. He is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and is since 2008 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
Stephen M. Schwebel, an active international arbitrator and counselor, is a former judge of the International Court of Justice (1981-2000) and former president of the Court. He served as president of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund 1993-2010, and currently serves as president of the Administrative Tribunal of the World Bank. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of ICSID's Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators.
Frederic G. Sourgens holds a Cand. mag. of the Universitetet i Oslo, an M.A. from the University of York, and a J.D. from Tulane University, School of Law. He is an Associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington D.C. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Chieko Tsuchiya is an attorney-at-law at Bingham McCutchen LLP's Tokyo office and admitted to practice in Japan and New York. She practices in the area of general corporate law including cross-border insolvency matters and international commercial litigation. She is a member of ADR committee at the Tokyo Bar Association and serves as a facilitator there. She received her LL.B. at Keio University (1993) and her LL.M. at New York University School of Law (2005). She was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (2005-2006).
Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His principal consulting activities have been concerned with foreign investment policy and with negotiations between foreign investors and host governments. His associations include Fellow, Academy of International Business; member, Foreign Advisory Board of Lahore Business School; and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a B.S. in Physics from Georgia Tech and his M.B.A. and D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
