Prof. Dr. iur. Anna Petrig, LL.M. (Harvard)

Anna Petrig holds the Chair of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She has a PhD in the field of the law of the sea and human rights law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. Anna is a member of the Bar of the Canton of Berne (Switzerland) and the New York State Bar (USA). Her broad legal experience includes work in private practice, the courts, and the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Anna has provided expert advice and legal counsel on maritime-related matters to the Swiss Government, NGOs, international organizations and other international fora. She has been a member of the Swiss Delegation and the Delegation of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) to the International Maritime Organization. Since 2019, Anna is sitting as Judge ad hoc for Switzerland on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in cases 27 and 29 (The M/T "San Padre Pio" Case, Switzerland v. Nigeria). Currently, she is a member of the team leading the Human Rights at Sea Arbitration Initiative, which aims at providing victims of human rights abuses at sea with an effective remedy. Anna is the author of various monographs, notably pertaining to the law of the sea as well as international human rights law, general public international law and criminal law.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 1 here.

Prof. Dr. Yarik Kryvoi, LL.M. (Harvard)

Professor Yarik Kryvoi is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is also a member of the New York State Bar (USA). Before moving to academia, he practiced law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC and Baker & McKenzie in Saint Petersburg. He is currently engaged in a number of law reform and capacity building projects for the United Nations, governmental agencies and academic institutions. He is listed as an arbitrator by several institutions, including Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Asian International Arbitration Centre and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He is also the founder of the CIS Arbitration Forum. Professor Kryvoi has authored a number of articles and monographs, primarily in the area of international dispute resolution and has also conducted several empirical studies in partnership with leading law firms. His recently published works include Private or Public Adjudication? Procedure, Substance and Legitimacy (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Kluwer Law International, 2020). He is also creator and director of the online course International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 2 here.

Raymond Cox KC

Raymond Cox KC is a highly regarded commercial barrister with Fountain Court Chambers in London with particular expertise in banking, financial services, commercial disputes and insurance. Much of Raymond’s work is international in nature and he has particular expertise offshore and in Asia Pacific. He is ranked for his work in Asia Pacific by The Legal 500 and has ad hoc admission to the Bar of the Cayman Islands and is a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 3 here.

Greg Fullelove, LL.M. (Leiden)

Greg Fullelove is a Partner and Head of the International Arbitration Group at Osborne Clarke LLP. He has been counsel and advocate in numerous international commercial arbitrations both in ad hoc proceedings and institutional arbitrations, for example under the LCIA, ICC, SCC, DIS, and UNCITRAL rules. He also acts in investment treaty arbitrations, including under the ICSID rules. Greg has significant expertise of arbitration in the life sciences, energy and natural resources, digital business and financial services sectors. Greg has also been appointed as an arbitrator in LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL proceedings and has acted as an expert witness on English arbitration law and practice in the US courts (following appointment by an energy major). He is frequently asked to speak on international arbitration at conferences and universities in the UK and abroad (including at the universities of Leiden, Oxford and Reading). Greg has been recognised as a "Global Leader" in International Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal. Legal 500 lists him as a leading practitioner in the field, and he is also recognised by Chambers and Partners. He is an editor of the Wolters Kluwer practitioner texts Arbitration in England (2013) and the forthcoming International Arbitration in England: Perspectives in Times of Change (2022).

Slides: You find the slides of Class 4 here.

Dr. Florian Grisel, LL.M. (Yale)

Florian Grisel is Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, he was Deputy Director of the Centre de théorie et analyse du droit (University Paris 10 Nanterre – ENS), Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris), and Reader in Transnational Law at King’s College London. Florian graduated in law and social sciences from Sciences Po Paris (BA/MA), Columbia University (MPA), Yale Law School (LLM), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (PhD) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Habilitation). He is admitted to practice law in Paris and New York. Florian was ranked as “Future Leader in International Arbitration” by Who’s Who Legal and on the “Arbitration Powerlist” by Legal 500.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 5 here.

Prof. Dr. Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof, LL.M. (Leiden)

Jackie van Haersolte-van Hof has been the Director General of the LCIA since 2014. Previously, she practised as counsel and arbitrator in The Hague, at her GAR 100 boutique HaersolteHof. She set up HaersolteHof in 2008 after three years as counsel in the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam. From 2000 – 2004 she was with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague, and before that with Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam, which she joined on her qualification in 1992. She continues to sit as arbitrator and has handled cases under the ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as those of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), and UNUM, the Institute of Transport, Arbitration & Mediation, and at the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association, based in the Netherlands. She is on the ICSID roster of arbitrators and was and is a member, including as president, of several ICSID Annulment Committees. She was also involved in setting up the arbitral process for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which analysed claims from Holocaust survivors over dormant accounts in Swiss banks. She is the professor of arbitration law at Leiden University and a member of GAR’s editorial board. Her 1992 PhD thesis on the application of the UNCITRAL Rules by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal was one of the first books to be published on the subject. On 3 December 2020 she delivered the 35th Annual Lecture of the School of International Arbitration and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, entitled "Impartiality and Independence: fundamental and fluid".

Slides: You find the slides of Class 6 here.

Prof. Renato Nazzini

Renato is a partner at LMS Legal LLP, London and Professor of Law at King’s College London, where he is also the Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. An experienced arbitrator and counsel in international arbitration, he has a wide industry knowledge, from construction, oil and gas and infrastructure to IT and digital, from pharmaceuticals to consumer goods. A dually qualified English Solicitor and Italian Advocate, he understands and navigates the different approaches across common law and civil law jurisdictions and is able to resolve effectively and pragmatically complex substantive and procedural problems. Aware of the multi-cultural dimension of many international disputes, he has worked across Europe, Africa, Asia and America as counsel, arbitrator (both as president of the tribunal and co-arbitrator) and expert witness. He is a member of the ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission, Italy, a member of the ICC Task Force on Dealing with Corruption Issues in International Arbitration and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Renato has also substantial experience in EU law, regulation and competition law, having served for seven years as a lawyer and then Deputy Director of the Legal and Policy Department at the UK competition authority and as a member of the ICC Task Force on Arbitrating Competition Law Issues. In his academic capacity, Renato published six books and more than eighty articles and book chapters on international arbitration or competition law and is General Co-editor or member of the editorial board of four leading international journals. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Turin, the University of Zurich, and FGV of San Paulo, Brazil. He holds two PhDs, one from the University of London and another from the University of Milan.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 7 here.

Jonathan Waters, LL.M. (Leicester)

Jonathan Waters is General Counsel of the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA). He is a barrister, arbitrator and Civil Mediation Council Registered Mediator and has held a number of senior in-house positions in a variety of business sectors, including retail and leisure, healthcare and insurance. Jonathan has over 30 years PQE, having advised clients, ranging from those listed on the London Stock Exchange to small-medium enterprises, and specialises in international arbitration, dispute resolution and commercial contracts. He has been involved in a number of key reported legal cases involving company law and directors duties. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has a Masters Degree in Economic Relations and Employment Law. He presents at international conferences and spent twelve years as a part-time law lecturer. Jonathan is the 2020 winner of International Arbitration Advisory Expert of the Year in the UK (Global Advisory Experts) and the Alternative Dispute Resolution UK award (Finance Monthly M&A Awards). He has also been included in Lawyer Magazine's "Hot 100" lawyers.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 8 here.

Dr. Gérardine Goh Escolar, LL.M. (UCL)

Dr. Gérardine Goh Escolar is Professor (Adjunct) at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Concurrently, she is Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), where she also heads two divisions: International Commercial, Digital and Financial Law; and Transnational Litigation. Previously in practice, Dr. Goh Escolar has acted as counsel, advocate, tribunal secretary and consultant in numerous international litigation and arbitration proceedings. Prior to that, she was Legal Advisor to the President of the Iran- United States Claims Tribunal, and principal legal officer in a Judge’s chambers at the International Court of Justice. Her work has involved matters ranging from emerging technology (blockchain and crypto, fintech, communications, aerospace and outer space), armed conflict, and environmental protection, to investment treaty protection, cross-border corporate transactions, and energy markets. Her earlier roles include those of legal officer in government service, in-house counsel at a satellite company (now part of a unicorn), and vice-president at a legaltech startup. Dr. Goh Escolar was Brandon Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and read law at Leiden University, University College London, and the National University of Singapore. She is a member of the New York State Bar.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 9 here.

James Clanchy, FCIArb

James Clanchy, FCIArb, is a full-time arbitrator in independent practice and a former Honorary Secretary of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA). He is an associate member of Six Pump Court chambers in London. As an arbitrator, he has taken appointments in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, seated in London, Dubai, Singapore and Copenhagen, as a sole arbitrator and as a member of two and three member tribunals. His cases largely concern charterparties, ship sale and purchase, container leases, and commodities trading. He has written more than 30 awards. He is a solicitor in England & Wales (admitted 1990, non-practising since 2019) and was an avocat at the Paris bar from 1994 to 2008. He spent 20 years as a commercial disputes lawyer In London and Paris, with Withers, Holman Fenwick Willan, and Stephenson Harwood, specialising in shipping, oil and gas, and international trade. He was Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) for four years (2008 to 2012). He spent two years as a case assessor for third-party funders and After The Event (ATE) insurers. He is a co-author of A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2014 (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015). He has given lectures and spoken at conferences about the LCIA, the LMAA, third-party funding, and professional ethics. He has been a contributor to Lexis PSL Arbitration and New Law Journal. His International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators 2020 paper, "Ad hoc arbitration and its enemies", was published in Arbitration 86, no 4 (2020). Since July 2022 he has been co-editor (arbitration) of Lloyd’s Maritime Law Newsletter.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 10 here.

Meg Kinnear, LL.M. (Virginia)

Meg Kinnear is the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and a Vice-President of the World Bank. Prior to joining ICSID, she worked as Senior General Counsel (2006-2009) and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada (1999-2006). Prior to this, Ms. Kinnear was the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada (1996 -1999) and Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of the Canadian Department of Justice (1984-1996). Ms. Kinnear has frequently spoken on and published with respect to international investment law and procedure, including as a co-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (Kluwer Law Publications, June 2006; updated editions released January 2008 and June 2009). Ms. Kinnear holds degrees from the University of Virginia (LL.M.) and McGill University (LL.B.). She is admitted to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) and the District of Columbia Bar.


Prof. Dr. Yarik Kryvoi, LL.M. (Harvard)

Professor Yarik Kryvoi is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is also a member of the New York State Bar (USA). Before moving to academia, he practiced law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC and Baker & McKenzie in Saint Petersburg. He is currently engaged in a number of law reform and capacity building projects for the United Nations, governmental agencies and academic institutions. He is listed as an arbitrator by several institutions, including Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Asian International Arbitration Centre and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He is also the founder of the CIS Arbitration Forum. Professor Kryvoi has authored a number of articles and monographs, primarily in the area of international dispute resolution and has also conducted several empirical studies in partnership with leading law firms. His recently published works include "Private or Public Adjudication? Procedure, Substance and Legitimacy" (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021). He is also creator and director of the online course International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution.

Slides: You find the slides of Class 11 here (Kinnear) and here (Kryvoi)  (will be uploaded after the class).

Dr. Vlad Meerovich, MSc (LSE)

Vlad is a partner at Peters & Peters in London. A specialist in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and international arbitration, Vlad also has experience of acting in cases involving parallel criminal proceedings and investigations by the Serious Fraud Office. He holds a PhD in law and economics from the London School of Economics. Vlad is a commercial litigator specialising in the field of complex corporate and financial fraud. He acts in the High Court and arbitral proceedings that also tend to engage criminal process and involve emergency without notice applications to seize property and assets. Vlad’s experience covers both obtaining and challenging freezing injunctions. Since joining Peters & Peters in 2009, Vlad has represented clients in a range of high-profile, high-value civil and criminal cases. He has worked on matters involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, corruption, dishonesty, fraudulent misrepresentation, misappropriation, money laundering, price fixing and unlawful financial assistance. Vlad has particular experience of acting in cases arising out of business acquisitions (acting for and against former management); failed investments that have been misappropriated and/or mismanaged; trusts; and HM Revenue & Customs enquiries. Much of Vlad’s work is international. In addition to UK and European clients, he has acted for individuals and entities from India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine and the United States. 

Slides: You find the slides of Class 12 here.

Greg Fullelove, LL.M. (Leiden)

Greg Fullelove is a Partner and Head of the International Arbitration Group at Osborne Clarke LLP. He has been counsel and advocate in numerous international commercial arbitrations both in ad hoc proceedings and institutional arbitrations, for example under the LCIA, ICC, SCC, DIS, and UNCITRAL rules. He also acts in investment treaty arbitrations, including under the ICSID rules. Greg has significant expertise of arbitration in the life sciences, energy and natural resources, digital business and financial services sectors. Greg has also been appointed as an arbitrator in LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL proceedings and has acted as an expert witness on English arbitration law and practice in the US courts (following appointment by an energy major). He is frequently asked to speak on international arbitration at conferences and universities in the UK and abroad (including at the universities of Leiden, Oxford and Reading). Greg has been recognised as a "Global Leader" in International Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal. Legal 500 lists him as a leading practitioner in the field, and he is also recognised by Chambers and Partners. He is an editor of the Wolters Kluwer practitioner texts Arbitration in England (2013) and the forthcoming International Arbitration in England: Perspectives in Times of Change (2022).


Dr. Vlad Meerovich, MSc (LSE)

Vlad is a partner at Peters & Peters in London. A specialist in multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and international arbitration, Vlad also has experience of acting in cases involving parallel criminal proceedings and investigations by the Serious Fraud Office. He holds a PhD in law and economics from the London School of Economics. Vlad is a commercial litigator specialising in the field of complex corporate and financial fraud. He acts in the High Court and arbitral proceedings that also tend to engage criminal process and involve emergency without notice applications to seize property and assets. Vlad’s experience covers both obtaining and challenging freezing injunctions. Since joining Peters & Peters in 2009, Vlad has represented clients in a range of high-profile, high-value civil and criminal cases. He has worked on matters involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, corruption, dishonesty, fraudulent misrepresentation, misappropriation, money laundering, price fixing and unlawful financial assistance. Vlad has particular experience of acting in cases arising out of business acquisitions (acting for and against former management); failed investments that have been misappropriated and/or mismanaged; trusts; and HM Revenue & Customs enquiries. Much of Vlad’s work is international. In addition to UK and European clients, he has acted for individuals and entities from India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine and the United States.