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John Buckley

Address: 

Williams & Connolly LLP
725 Twelfth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
USA

Phone Number: 
202-434-5051
Fax Number: 
202-434-5029
Email: 
jbuckley@wc.com
Website: www.wc.com/jbuckley
Born: 
1947, New York, NY
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Georgetown University, B.A., 1969, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
University of Chicago, J.D., 1972, with honors
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
New York, 1973
District of Columbia, 1977
Present Position: 
Senior Counsel, Williams & Connolly LLP
Visiting Clinical Lecturer, Yale Law School
Professional Experience: 

Founder and Co-Chair of International Arbitration Practice Group, Williams & Connolly LLP (senior counsel, 2018-, partner, 1981-2017, associate 1977-80); Special Assistant to Hon. Edward H. Levi, Attorney General of the United States (1975-77); Law Clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States (1973-74); Law Clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1972-73).

Professional Associations: 

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Member, Arbitration Committee of the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution; Co-Chair, CPR’s Administered Rules Revision Committee; Member, Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA); Member, the International Arbitration Institute (IAI), Paris; Member, Arbitration Committee, International Bar Association (IBA); Member, North American Users' Council, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).

Panels of Arbitrators: 

CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Panel of Distinguished Neutrals; CPR General Commercial Panel of arbitrators for Washington, D.C.; CPR International/Cross Border Panel of arbitrators; CPR Energy, Oil and Gas Panel of arbitrators; International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) -- International Panel of Arbitrators; International Arbitration Institute of Paris (IAI) -- Panel of Arbitrators; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); The Roster of International Arbitrators, Juris.

Arbitration Experience: 

Lead counsel or arbitrator (co-arbitrator or chair) in proceedings under AAA, JAMS, CPR, ICDR, ICC, and HKIAC rules and ad hoc arbitrations.

Areas of Specialization: 
Contracts
Energy
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Liability in Tort
Oil & Gas
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

U.S.A. Chapter on FAA in The International Comparative Legal Guide to:  International Arbitration 2017-2018 (ICGL 2018, with J. Landy), (ICGL 2017, with C.J. Mahoney); U.S.A. Chapter in Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2018 (ICGL 2018, with A. Reyes); “Language and Due Process in International Arbitration,” in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (2017).