current update release 48
(UPDATED TWICE A YEAR - PART I AND PART II)

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PDF of Title Page and T.O.C.

About the Editors:

The late Hans Smit was the Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. Professor Smit was an internationally-renowned expert in the fields of International Law and Arbitration and the author of numerous books and articles on International Arbitration and International Law and Procedure. He taught as a visiting professor at the University of Paris, was consulted on legal reform at the World Bank, and was also a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and International Academy of Comparative Law. From 1960 to 1969 he was a Reporter to the U.S. Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure. He was a former Adviser to the U.S. Delegation to UNCITRAL. His experience and insight were key and highly valued elements in the creation of The Roster of International Arbitrators. 

Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M. Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies where he is Director of Studies of the School of International Arbitration. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University, School of Law. He teaches at the University of London LLM programme and is the coordinator of the courses in International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration, International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement, and International Trade Law.  Professor Mistelis 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.

Mary H. Mourra is a Partner at Mourra & Borne, LLP, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She is a practicing attorney with over twenty years of experience in international law and US domestic law. She is the former Executive Director of the Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice at the Pennsylvania State University School of Law. She is the principal author of Latin American Investment Treaty Arbitration: The Conflicts and Controversies (Kluwer 2008) which serves as a guide for governments signing international investment treaties. Her experience includes extensive work in the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States. She has provided international legal consultancy to various governments and/or government entities. In November 2009, she was part of the Chilean delegation to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO); an inter-governmental organization established to promote the sharing of information, science, and technology for civilian/humanitarian purposes. From 2000 to 2005 she represented non-governmental organizations in the plenary sessions of the United Nations in New York and Geneva, Switzerland. She has received various awards for her legal work including a 'Constitutional Rights Award for Outstanding Legal Service Against the Use of Secret Evidence' presented by the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (Washington D.C. 2001) and a 'Pro Bono Award' from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (Washington D.C. 2001). In 1995 and 1996, as the director of the legal department of a US civil rights organization, she presented expert testimony in legislative hearings in the United States Congress. She was editor of various academic books and international legal journals on arbitration and mediation, including The World Arbitration and Mediation Review and The Latin American Arbitration Review. She received her Juris Doctorate from Tulane University in 1988 and has been licensed to practice law in the United States since 1989. She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Haitian Creole and she has knowledge of Arabic.

"This ambitious project is undoubtedly the result of much work and it constitutes a valuable tool for research in the field of commercial arbitration."
- The late Robert Briner, was Counsel, Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva; Former President of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal; Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC; Past Chairman, Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association (IBA)