George A. Bermann
Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th St.
New York, NY 10027 USA
Long experience as international commercial and investment arbitrator (solo, party-appointed and chair) before all major international arbitral institutions ; founding member, Governing Board, ICC Court of Arbitration (Paris); member, ICC Standing Committee and ICC Arbitration Commission (Paris); Council member, American Arbitration Association (AAA); chair global advisory board, New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC); board member, Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR); Chief Reporter, ALI Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration; Co-Author (with Emmanuel Gaillard) of UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention; Editor-in-Chief, American Review of International Arbitration;; Attorney, Davis Polk & Wardwell, NY, NY; Past President, American Society of Comparative Law; President, International Academy of Comparative Law; Court- and Party-appointed expert foreign law witness; Member of Academic Council, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; Member, Association for International Arbitration (Brussels); Member editorial advisory board, Revue de l’arbitrage.
• ICDR Panel of Arbitrators;
• AAA Roster of Arbitrators;
• CPR Panel of Neutrals;
• CIETAC Roster of Arbitrators;
• Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB);
• Kuala Lumpur International Arbitration Center
Guides to Arbitrators;
• GAR Who’s Who Legal
• Chambers Guide USA
• JurisPub Roster of International Arbitrators.
Chair, party-appointed arbitrator and sole arbitrator in scores of cases since 1980; advisor to counsel in arbitration matters in both courts and arbitral tribunals; expert witness on international arbitration and transnational litigation in courts and arbitral tribunals.
Selected Publications:
- UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention (co-authored with E. Gaillard)(2016)
- American Law Institute, Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (2018)
- International Arbitration and Private International law (General Course in Private International Law of Hague Academy of International Law, published in Recueil des cours of Academy)(2017)
- Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts (Springer Pub. 2017)
- Mandatory Rules in International Arbitration (2d. ed., forthcoming Juris Pub. 2018)
- The Role of National Courts at the Threshold of Arbitration, 28 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. (2017)
- European Union Law as a Jurisdictional and Substantive Defense to Investor/State Liability (in F. Ferrari, ed., The Impact of EU Law on International Arbitration, Juris Pub. 2017)
- The Energy Charter Treaty and European Union Law, in International Arbitration in the Energy Sector (M. Scherer, ed.) 2018)
- Res Judicata in International Arbitration, in A. Bjorklund, F. Ferrari & S. Kroll, eds., Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (forthcoming 2018)
- International Standards as a Choice of Law Option in International Arbitration (28 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb., 2017)
- Cases and Materials on European Union Law (West Pub. 4th ed. 2016) (co-authored)
- The Yukos Annulment: Answered and Unanswered Questions, 27 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 1 (2016)
- Limits to Party Autonomy in Composition of the Arbitral Panel, in Limits to Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration 83 (F. Ferrari, ed., Juris Pub. 2016)
- Jurisdiction in international Arbitration: Courts v. Arbitrators, in International Commercial Arbitration in New York (eds. J. Carter & D. Lindsey) (2d ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2016)
- International Commercial Arbitration: Present Challenges and Future Prospects: Festschrift for John Beechey (2017)
- “Sounds and Silences”: Case note on the Gazprom Judgment of the European Court of Justice, 22 Maastricht J. Eur. & Comp. L. 888 (2015)
- The “Gateway Problem” in International Commercial Arbitration, 37 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2012)
- Navigating EU Law and the Law of International Arbitration, 28 Arb. Int’l 397 (2012)
- Arbitrability Trouble, 23 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 367 (2012)
- The Supreme Court Trilogy and its Impact on U.S. Arbitration Law, 22 Amer. Rev. Int’l Arb. 551 (2011)
- The UK Supreme Court Speaks to International Arbitration: Learning from the Dallah Case, 22 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb 1 (2011)
- Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Arbitration, in Conflict of Laws in International Arbitration (F. Ferrari & S. Kroll, eds., 325, Sellier Pub., 2010)
- Ascertaining the Parties’ Intentions in Arbitral Design, 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 993 (2009)
- American Exceptionalism in International Arbitration, in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2011 (Arthur Rovine, ed., 3, Martinus Nijhoff 2012)
- The Prospects of Eco Swiss v. Benetton for International Commercial Arbitration: A Comment on Eco Swiss v. Benetton, in The Practice of Arbitration: Essays in Honor of Hans van Houtte (P. Wautelet, T. Kruger & G. Coppens, eds., 305, Hart Pub. 2012)
- Reconciling European Union Law Demands with the Demands of International Arbitration, in “A Man for All Treaties”: Festschrift for JC Piris) (Jean Paul Jacqué et al., eds., 41, Bruylant, 2011); also in 34 Fordham Int’l L. J. 1193 (2011)
- Domesticating the New York Convention: The Impact of the Federal Arbitration Act, 2011 J. Int’l Disp. Settlement 317 (2011); also in Comparative Perspectives on international Arbitration (Giuditta Cordero Moss, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)
- Parallel Jurisdiction: Is Convergence Possible?, 2011Ybk. Priv. Int’l L. 21 (2012), also in Convergence and Divergence in Private International Law: Festschrift for Kurt Siehr (Katharina boele-Woelki, Talia Einhorn, Daniel Girsberger, & Syemon Symeonides, eds., 579, Schultess Pub. 2010)
- The Role of Courts and Arbitrators in Determining Arbitral Jurisdiction in U.S. Law: Festschrift for Pierre Tercier 727 (Montcretien Pub. 2008)
- Restating the Law of International Commercial Arbitration, 42 N.Y.U. J. Law & Politics 175 (2009)
- Mandatory Rules of Law in International Arbitration, 18 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 1 (2007)
- The Emergence of Transatlantic Regulation, in Legal Challenges in EU Administrative Law (H. Hofmann & A. Turk, eds., 168, Elgar Pub. 2009)
- Dramatic Sideshows at the Hearing: Festschrift for Michael Schneider) (2014)
- Litigation in the Civil law and Common Law: The Basics, in Litigation Strategies and Practice (Barton Legum & Ethan A. Berghoff, eds., 2d ed., 2014)
- La concertation reglementaire transatlantique, in Vers de nouveaux equilibres entre ordres juridiques : Festschrift for Helene Gaudemet-Tallon (Dalloz 2008)
- La protection des droits de l’individu aux Etats-Unis: proportionnalite et federalisme, in Droit global: des droits au droit : les droits de la personne, fondement du droit (L. Vogel, ed., 41, Institut de Droit Compare Pub. 2007)
- The Emergence of Transatlantic Regulation, in Economic Law and Justice in Times of Globalisation: Festschrift for Carl Baudenbacher 275 (Nomos 2007)
- The European Law Institute: A Transatlantic Perspective: Festschrift for Prof. Bernard Audit (2006)
- U.S. Class Actions and the ‘Global Class,’ 19 Kan. J. L. & Pub. Policy 91 (2009)
- Introduction to French Law (2008 Kluwer)
- French Business Law in Translation, 2nd ed. (2008 Juris)
- American Bar Association Guide to European Union Administrative Law (ABA Pub., 2008)