Jan Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in many hundreds of  international arbitrations, conducted under all the major international arbitration rules. He has appeared before a number of public international law tribunals, including the  International Court of Justice. Mr. Paulsson is President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, President of the Administrative Tribunals of the OECD and the EBRD, and a board member of the AAA. He is a former President of the London Court of International Arbitration and of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, and a former Vice-President of  the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He heads a graduate programme in international arbitration at the School of Law of the University of Miami. Among his publications are the standard reference work International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (3rd edition 2000), which he co-authored with Messrs. W.L. Craig and W.W. Park, and his monograph  Denial of Justice in International Law, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. His latest book, The Idea of Arbitration, will be published by Oxford University Press in  2013. Mr. Paulsson holds degrees from Harvard College, Yale Law School (where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal) and the University of Paris. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Swedish. He may be contacted at jpaulsson@law.miami.edu.