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Michael J. Bonell

Address: 

via Panisperna, 28
00184 Rome
Italy

Phone Number: 
(39-6) 699 41372
Fax Number: 
(39-6) 699 41394
Email: 
mj.bonell@unidroit.org
Born: 
1945, Renon, Italy
Languages: 
English German Italian French
Nationalities: 
Italian
Education: 
Degree of Law, Univ. of Rome I 1969
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to Rome bar, 1974
Present Position: 
Professor of comparative and international trade law, Univ. of Rome I
Professional Experience: 

Legal consultant at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), since 1970; Italian delegate to the United
Nations Commission of International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), since 1980

Professional Associations: 

Associated member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Corresponding member of the Institute of International Business
Law and Practice (ICC, Paris); Member of the International Academy of Commercial Law and Consumer Law

Panels of Arbitrators: 

Italian Arbitration Association; The Chamber of National and International Arbitration of Milan; International Arbitral Centre of the Federal
Economic Chamber in Vienna; Hungarian Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, Budapest

Arbitration Experience: 

Counsel for the defense of the Italian government before the International Court of Justice in the case Raytheon v. ELSI; Chairman of arbitration tribunal in case no. 3018 (1991) at the Vienna Arbitration Centre; sole arbitrator in case no. 4318 (1992); sole arbitrator in the case no. 4366 (1993) (both at the Vienna Arbitration Centre)

Areas of Specialization: 
Comparative Law
Contracts
Transportation
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Le regole oggettive del commercio internazionale (1976); Partecipazione operaia e diritto dell'impresa (1983); Commentary on the International Sales Law. The 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (1987) (Co-editor and Co-ordinator); Numerous essays, articles and conferences papers published in law reviews and collections of essays and conference papers.