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Jan Hendrik Dalhuisen

Address: 

Rua Castilho 201, 3d Esq
Lisbon 1070-051
Portugal

Phone Number: 
44 7939199220; 351 917464061
Fax Number: 
351 217 214 177
Email: 
jan.dalhuisen@kcl.ac.uk
Born: 
1943, Dalfsen
Languages: 
English Dutch French German Spanish Portuguese
Nationalities: 
Dutch
Education: 
PhD. Amsterdam 1968, LLM University California Berkeley 1967
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to the practice of the law in the Netherlands in 1966; Member of the NY Bar 1985, F CIArb
Present Position: 
Professor of International Commercial and Financial Law at King’s College London since 1996; Visiting Professor of Law University of California Berkeley since 1998
Professional Experience: 

General Counsel Gulf Oil Eastern Hemisphere (Europe Africa and Middle East) 1981/84; Secretary General International Primary Market Association (1984/86) (IPMA, the trade organization of the underwriting banks in the international capital markets, now ICMA); Executive Director IBJ (now Mizuho) International London 1986/96

Panels of Arbitrators: 

LCIA, ICC, ICSID

Arbitration Experience: 

Sole arbitrator in approximately thirty cases, wing arbitrator in a substantial number of international cases, chairman in two international case, one ICSID review case, leading counsel in two major international case

Areas of Specialization: 
Commercial Law
Competition, Antitrust, Restrictive Trade Practices
Financial Negotiations
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Insolvency & Reorganization
International Commercial Transactions
Trade & Regulation
Publications from JURIS: 
The Applicable Law in Foreign Investment Disputes - WAMR 2014 Vol. 8, No. 2
Compañiá de Aguas del Aconquija S.A. and Vivendi Universal v. Argentine Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/97/3 (France/Argentina BIT), Decision on the Argentine Republic's Request for Annulment of the Award rendered on 20 August 2007
Compañiá de Aguas del Aconquija S.A. and Vivendi Universal v. Argentine Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/97/3 (France/Argentina BIT), Decision on the Argentine Republic's Request for a Continued Stay of Enforcement of the Award
Publications: 

Major works: Dalhuisen on International Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Matthew Bender New York, six editions between 1979–1986; Dalhuisen on International Commercial Financial and Trade Law (Hart Publishing Oxford, 3nd ed. 2007). Many law review articles and smaller contributions, most recent ones: “What could the Selection by the Parties of English Law in a Civil Law Contract in Commerce and Finance Truly Mean”,
Festschrift Tom Bingham (2009); “Custom and its Revival in Transnational Private Law”, 18 Duke J Comp and Intn´l Law, 339 (2008); “Legal Orders and Their Manifestation: The Operation of the International Commercial and Financial Legal Order and its Lex Mercatoria”, 24 Berkeley Journal of International Law, 129–191 (2006); “The Case for an International Commercial Court” Festschrift Horn, 893–907 (2006)).