Originally from World Arbitration And Mediation Review (WAMR)

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ARBITRATOR INTEGRITY:
THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT

INTRODUCTION TO RUSTY PARK
Catherine A Rogers, Workshop Co-chair

We are very fortunate to have with us today Professor Rusty
Park who is clearly the most internationally known professor at
Boston University. He is the General Editor of ARBITRATION
INTERNATIONAL. Last year, he was appointed by the United States
Government as an arbitrator on the roster of ICSID arbitrators.
He is the Vice President of the LCIA and active at every level in
that organization. In this room, he is perhaps best known for his
work as a co-author of the leading treatise on ICC Arbitration and,
for those professors in the room, as the co-author of one of the
leading case books on international arbitration along with
Professor Michael Reisman. We are extremely fortunate to have
him here today because one of his most recent intellectual
interests has been arbitrator conduct, as a result of work he has
been doing at Harvard related to backlash against arbitration. So,
without further ado, I will introduce to you someone you all are
already very familiar with. Thank you very much. (Applause)

William W. (Rusty) Park
Thank you very much, Catherine. Let me first commend the
people who were speaking earlier in the morning. Sitting in the
audience, I kept thinking that it would be nice to find some way to
be provocative and exciting, by disagreeing with the prior
speakers. They all made eminent good sense, however. This made
me feel a bit like the man who became the ninth husband of
Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. When asked how it felt like to
be husband number nine, he replied, “Well, I know what is
expected of me, but am not sure how long I can keep her
interested.” (Laughter)
If an evil gremlin wanted to bring arbitration into disrepute it
could take two different paths. One path would establish
standards for impartiality and independence so low that