Prof. Aslan Abashidze is Doctor of legal sciences programme, Professor of International Law; Head of the Department of International Law, Law Faculty, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia; Professor, International Law Department, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Author of more than 350 papers in international law, published in Russia, Belgium, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Armenia, etc.
e-mail: abashidze.rudn@gmail.com
Matej Accetto studied law at the University of Ljubljana, taking his LL.B. in 2000; he then received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2001 and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Ljubljana in 2006, where he is Assistant Professor (Docent) of European Law. His other relevant positions and affiliations include a stage at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2003), the Lord Slynn of Hadley European Law Foundation Fellowship (2003–04) and the post-doctoral Monica Partridge Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College (2006).
e-mail: matej.accetto@pf.uni-lj.si
Jaroslav Valerievich Antonov is a practicing lawyer. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Constitutional Law of the North-west Institute of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
e-mail: reoverclock@gmail.com
Vasily N. Anurov is a candidate of jurisprudence, lecturer at the Faculty of Private International Law, Moscow State Law Academy, Arbitrator of the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration. Also, he holds LL.M. in Mineral Law and Policy with distinction (Dundee, Scotland).
e-mail: vasily.anurov@googlemail.com
Gabriela Augustínyová holds an LL.B. in European, International and Comparative Law from University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and LL.M. cum laude in Public International Law from Leiden University, Netherlands. The author currently works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Previously the author worked at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Mission to Serbia.
e-mail: augustinyova.g@gmail.com
Professor of International Law, focusing mainly on the problematic of International Relations, Space Law and Human Rights Law. Co-founder of the Cabinet of the Legal Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He represented Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia in various international organisations. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (den Haag), International Institute of Peace and others. Currently chairman of the Department of the Diplomacy and Legal History at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica [SVK] and leading scientific worker at the Institute of the State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
e-mail: usapazud@savba.sk
Dr. Alina Mioara Cobuz Bagnaru - Attorney-at-law, PhD, Member of the Bucharest Bar, Founding Member of Cobuz si Asociatii, Arbitrator with the Bucharest Stock Exchange, FINBAN mediator, Member in European Court of Arbitration
e-mail: alina@cobuz.ro
Milan Bakeš is a professor of financial law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, and Visiting Professor at UCLA, Los Angeles. He has published numerous monographs and more than 150 expert papers in his field. His most important monographs include Theoretical Issues of Financial Law [Teoretické otázky finančního práva] (Charles University, Prague, 1979) and Taxation and Investment (IBFD Amsterdam). In addition to his teaching and academic activities, he also practises as a lawyer specializing in financial law.
e-mail: bakes@prf.cuni.cz
Dániel Bán, Attorney-at-law; Perényi & Bán Law Firm (Budapest) External lecturer; Civil Law Department, Faculty of Law, Pécs University of Sciences Founding member of “Magánjogot Oktatók Egyesülete (Society of Civil Law Teachers) Scope of his research: contract law, private international law, arbitration.
e-mail: bandaniel@ajk.pte.hu
Prof. dr hab. dr h.c. Bogusław Banaszak: Professor of Legal Sciences, Professor honoris causa of three Universities, expert in constitutional law; is Head of the Constitutional Law Chair at the University of Wrocław. Prof. B. Banaszak used to be the President of the Polish Legislative Council by the Prime Minister (2006-2010). He is also a member of European Academy of Science, Art and Literature (Paris). Prof. Banaszak has written over 300 publications, including 20 in English and 50 in German, including two highly regarded books on Polish Constitutional Law and International Encyclopedias of Law (Kluwers 2005). He is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and has given over 60 lectures throughout Europe, Latin- and North America.
e-mail: kaprakon@prawo.uni.wroc.pl
Prof. JUDr. Helena Barancová, DrSc., Dean of the Law Faculty of Trnava University, Head of the Department of Labour Law and Social Security Law. She has penned 24 academic monographs, and over 360 academic and expert studies and articles. Of these, approximately one third have been published abroad. She is known in the broader academic and professional community for her numerous books and expert articles on international and European labour law. She was awarded the Order of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic in November 2008 for her scholarship on European and international labour law.
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Marina P. Bardina is a professor of the Chair of Private Law of the All-Russian Academy for Foreign trade, Senior researcher of the Sector of Legal regulation of International economic relations of the Institute of state and law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Bardina is also an enlisted arbitrator of the International commercial arbitration court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Arbitration court at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Arbitration Commission of Moscow Inter-Bank Currency Exchange, Arbitration Court at the Fund “Law and Economy of Fuel-Energetic Complex”, Arbitration Court at the OJSC “Gazprom” .
JUDr. Michal Bartoň, Ph.D. is research assistant to the chair of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc, where he also held the position of vice dean for student affairs during 2006/2007. He is a member of the working committee of the Legislative Council of Czech Government, chairman of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Law at Palacký University, and chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Academic Senate at Palacký University.
e-mail: michal.barton@upol.cz
Univ. Professor, Dr.iur., Mgr., Dipl. Ing. oec/MB, Dr.h.c. Lawyer admitted and practising in Prague/CZE (Branch N.J./US), Senior Partner of the Law Offices Bělohlávek, Dept. of Law, Faculty of Economics, Ostrava, CZE, Dept. of Int. and European Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, CZE (visiting), Chairman of the Commission on Arbitration ICC National Committee CZE, Arbitrator in Prague, Vienna, Kiev etc. Member of ASA, DIS, Austrian Arb. Association. The President of the WJA – the World Jurist Association, Washington D.C./USA.
e-mail: office@ablegal.cz
JUDr. Jan Brodec, LL.M PhD. is a lecturer of the Law Faculty of the Charles University. He lectures on international private law and international trade law. He is also an attorney. In his practice he mostly deals with international private law cases.
e-mail: hbrodec@seznam.cz
JUDr. Veronika Burketová, LL.M, PhD. Attorney at law in Prague providing counseling to international firms and banks; in her research at Charles University in Prague and the University of Technology in Sydney she specialized in competition issues affecting more national markets.
e-mail: veronika.burketova@seznam.cz
Mgr. Filip Čeladník LL.M. is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Czech Bar Association, practising both in London and Prague. He graduated from King’s College London with Merits and is completing an LLM at Melbourne Law School in Australia and a PhD at Charles University in Prague. Further information is available on www.celadnik.com.
e-mail: filip@celadnik.com
JUDr. Filip Černý (*1982) works as a legal trainee in the Law Office of Bělohlávek, Prague, Czech Republic and pursues his PhD studies in international law at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he also obtained his Juris Utrisque Doctor degree in 2010. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Masaryk University (Brno) in 2007, absolved exchange programme at the Law Faculty of Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2006. Field of Interest: arbitration and public international law, with a specific focus on the investment arbitration.
e-mail: filip.cerny@ablegal.cz
Cornel Marian is an associate with the Stockholm Arbitration & Litigation Center (SALC) Advokatbyrå. He is a US-trained attorney, admitted before the courts of the State of New York. He received his LLM in international commercial arbitration from Stockholm University.
e-mail: cornel.marian@salc.se
Dr. Marcin Czepelak is a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an expert for the European Commission – member of PRM III Group.
e-mail: marcin.czepelak@interia.pl
Matija Damjan, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. In his research, he primarily focuses on the areas of private and commercial law. He was a member of the expert group that prepared the draft Slovenian Arbitration Act, enacted in 2008.
e-mail: matija.damjan@pf.uni-lj.si
Ivaylo Dermendjiev is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience, founder of and senior partner in the law firm Simeonov and Dermendjiev Private Consult Ltd. He is extremely specialized in arbitration and litigation, corporate and trade law, and administrative law and process. Ivaylo Dermendjiev is an arbitrator in CAS and LCIA, as well as in the Arbitration court of Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has a Ph.D. in law.
e-mail: office@sd-legal.com
Senior fellow at Charles University in Prague, Law Faculty, Chair of Commercial Law. His research and teaching activities are mainly focused on European Private International Law (Rome I, Rome II and Brussels I), International Commercial Law (International Insurance Law) and International Arbitration (Investment and Commodity Arbitration). The author is a corresponding member of the Project Group "Restatement of Europena Insurance Contract Law."
e-mail: dobias@prf.cuni.cz
Grzegorz Domański is a professor at Warsaw University and a partner in the Domański Zakrzewski Palinka Law Firm in Warsaw. Grzegorz acts as an arbitrator and represents clients in arbitration proceedings, including investment treaty disputes. He has acted for both investors and respondent state.
e-mail: Grzegorz.Domanski@dzp.pl
Klára Drličková is currently holding the position of an assistant professor at the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law,
e-mail: klara.drlickova@email.cz
Aiste Dumbryte holds a MA in International and European Law from Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Advanced LL.M. cum laude in International Criminal Law from Leiden University, Netherlands. The author currently works at the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Previously the author worked at the Victims’ Participation and Reparations Section of the International Criminal Court, the legal section of the Coalition for the ICC (internship) and the Department of Refugee Affairs of the Lithuanian Red Cross Society.
e-mail: aiste_dumbryte@yahoo.com.
Michael Dunmore is an associate in the Dispute Resolution group at Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) in Tokyo. His practice focuses on international arbitration.
He completed his LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law at Stockholm University, as well as his LL.B. at the University of Sydney; Master of Criminology at the University of Sydney and B.A.(H) at the University of Windsor.
Michael is a dual qualified solicitor admitted to practice in England and Wales and in New South Wales, Australia. He has worked at numerous arbitration centres across Asia and in the international arbitration practice group of an international law firm in London. Michael has published various articles on international commercial arbitration.
Dr. Bernd Ehle, LL.M. (Northwestern), MCIArb, Avocat (Geneva), Rechtsanwalt (Germany), is a Partner at LALIVE (Geneva/Zurich). The author specializes in international disputes and has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous international arbitral proceedings governed by various procedural and substantive laws. He acts as co-chair of the Geneva Group of ASA, the Swiss Arbitration Association, and is a committee member of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
e-mail: behle@lalive.ch
Dan Engström is the managing partner of Stockholm Arbitration & Litigation Center (SALC) Advokatbyrå, which is the first law firm in Sweden with a practice exclusively limited to litigation and dispute resolution. SALC’s members serve as counsels and arbitrators in Sweden and abroad.
e-mail: dan.engstrom@salc.se
Insur Zabirovich Farkhutdinov, Doctor of Law, Leading Researcher of the Institute of State and Law (Sector of international legal research) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-chief of the Eurasian Law Journal (Moscow). Areas of specialization: Public International Law, International Investment Law, state sovereignty. Author of monographs and articles on some aspects of legal regulation of foreign investments.
e-mail: insur_il@rambler.ru
Prof. JUDr. Jaroslav Fenyk, Ph.D., DSc. (*1961) is a full time professor of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology and criminalistics at the Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, a part-time professor at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague, a private university professor at the Law Faculty of Miskolc University in Hungary, and he regularly lectures in foreign universities (Vienna, Chicago, Bratislava, etc.). He has published approximately 20 scientific books and more than 100 articles and scientific studies. He is a lawyer, and served as First Deputy Supreme Public Prosecutor of the Czech Republic, a member of the Legislative Board of Government of the Czech Republic, and President of the Czech Association for the Protection of Financial Interests of EC. He is a member of the International Association for Criminal Law (AIDP), and a replacement member of the Supervisory Committee over the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
e-mail: jaroslav.fenyk@law.muni.cz
Dr. Cristina Florescu is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania and a lawyer with her own commercial and arbitration law practice (Bucharest Bar). She is also an arbitrator at the International Court of Commercial Arbitration (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania), Bucharest and at the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC). She participates regularly as an international arbitrator (member of the jury) to W.C. Vis Moot, Vienna and FDI Moot. A PhD graduate, with a doctoral thesis in the field of commercial arbitration published in Romania, she is a participant and speaker at numerous scientific sessions and seminars/webinars, international and domestic conferences in arbitration and commercial law fields. She has publications in several specialized journals, reviews, collections of essays, books, courses in commercial law, mediation and arbitration field.
e-mail: crisflorescu@gmail.com
Elena Zucconi Galli Fonseca is a full professor of Civil Procedural Law. She teaches Civil Procedural Law and International and Domestic Arbitration Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, School of Law. She has written more than seventy books, articles and essays. Her research interests include arbitration, with particular reference to the arbitral convention, arbitration and company law, arbitral award; res iudicata, objective and subjective limits, connections between rights and collateral estoppel. Among her books are La convenzione arbitrale rituale nei confronti dei terzi (Arbitral convention and third person) Milan, 2006 and Pregiudizialità e rinvio. Contributo allo studio dei limiti soggettivi dell’accertamento (Contribute to doctrine of res judicata and third person), Bologna, 2011. She is a member of the Italian Association of Civil Procedure Law, and of the International Association of Procedural Law. She also practices civil and commercial law in Bologna. Her address is the: Università di Bologna, Scuola di giurisprudenza, via Zamboni n. 22, Bologna, Italy.
David Fyrbach is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL with significant expertise in international commercial arbitration and investment disputes. David is a member of teams that represent governments and corporations in investment disputes and international commercial arbitration proceedings.
e-mail: fyrbach@rowanlegal.com
Dr. Carmen Adriana Gheorghe, Ph.D. senior lecturer at Transylvania
e-mail: carmenghe2003@yahoo.com
Nicole Grmelová graduated from Charles University Law School, Prague and the Law Faculty of Universidad de Sevilla. She defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, where she teaches courses on EU Institutions and EU Law as a Senior Lecturer. Between 2004 and 2008 she worked as a lawyer-linguist for the European Parliament in Brussels and later cooperated with the Court of Justice of the European Union.
e-mail: nicole.grmelova@vse.cz
JUDr. Jiří Grygar, Ph.D. (36), is a judge of the District Court of Prague - East (7 years), civil section, specializing in international and EU law. Previously he worked at the Law Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc and also lectured at the Judicial Academy in Kromeříž (theory of law). In 2006-2008, he served as a legislative advisor to the Minister of Justice. He co-authored the amendments to the civil procedural law and authored or co-authored books on the theory of law and the philosophy of law, protection of fundamental rights in the EU, comments on the Mediation Act, the Private International Law Act and other books and publications in legal journals.
e-mail: GrygarJiri@seznam.cz
Leonila Guglya is a Research Associate in the Multidisciplinary International Investment Arbitration Project, conducted by the Department of International Private Law of the University of Geneva Law School. She holds an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); a MIS degree in International Dispute Settlement from the Geneve Master in International Dispute Settlement Program (Geneva, Switzerland); an LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Central European University; as well as degrees of Specialist in Law and Bachelor in Law from the University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine).
e-mail: leonila.guglya.alumni@mids.ch
Bohuslav Halfar is head of the Department of Law at the Faculty of Economics, VŠB – Technical University, Ostrava. He specializes in economic crime. In recent years, he has also dealt extensively with the issues of international criminality, international legal assistance in criminal matters and the competence (jurisdiction) of law enforcement agencies and courts in relation to crime with cross-border (international) elements. He is also a criminal defence lawyer and until 1989 he spent nine years as a judge (in criminal matters) at Ostrava District Court as a court of first instance. He is also a member of the WJA – the World Jurist Association (Washington, DC, USA) etc.
e-mail|: bohuslav.halfar@vsb.cz
Laura Halonen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and an associate with Lalive in Geneva. She specialises in public international law and international arbitration, with particular emphasis on investment arbitration.
e-mail: lhalonen@lalive.ch
JUDr. Pavel Hamerník Ph.D. works at the Institute of State and the Law at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, researching specializing in Sports Law and EU Law. He is the author of the Czech book Sports Law with International Elements and the Czech e-book Sports Law: In search of the balance between specific sports regulation and general law. He cooperates with the T.M.C. Asser Instituut’s International Sports Law Centre projects, has worked as Director of the Legal department of Czech FA, has teaching experience of EU Law and Sports Law and sits on the Czech Ice-hockey Association’s Arbitration Commission.
e-mail: pavel.hamernik@ilaw.cas.cz
The author is an arbitrator for international and inland disputes, a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, an expert in the Center for Economic and Law Studies of Masaryk University for the International Trade module, and a member of a number of international arbitration institutions (profile: www.janhavlicek.com).
e-mail: info@janhavlicek.com
Jiří Horník is a Partner at Kocián Šolc Balaštík, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o., a leading Czech law firm based in
e-mail: jhornik@ksb.cz
JUDr. Miluše Hrnčiříková, Ph.D., lecturer at the Department of Commercial Law and International Private Law, Faculty of Law od Palacký University in Olomouc.
e-mail: miluse.hrncirikova@upol.cz
JUDr. Regina Palková, PhD. is research associate at the Chair of Commercial Law and Economic Law of the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. She completed her post-graduate studies in 2009 by successfully defending her dissertation on the topic: 'Arbitration procedures in commercial matters – the current state and proposals for future legal development'. Her research work continues to address issues in the realm of arbitration as well as out-of-court dispute resolution in a more general context. She manages the grant project "Out-of-court (alternative) dispute resolution in Slovakia".
e-mail: regina.palkova@upjs.sk
Doc. JUDr. Ilona Jančářová, Ph.D. is a university lecturer at the Department of Environmental Law and Land Law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. The author specializes in environmental liability, legal aspects of global warming, and waste management. She publishes in the Czech Republic and abroad.
e-mail: ilona.jancarova@law.muni.cz
Dr. Barbara Jelonek-Jarco is an attorney at law and partner at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas Kos Gaertner, coordinating the work of the real estate department. She has participated in numerous court and arbitration proceedings for institutional clients. She also focuses her practice on such fields as company law and private commercial law. Dr. Jelonek-Jarco is the author of numerous articles, commentaries, didactic publications and monographs on civil and constitutional law.
Email: barbara.jelonek@kkg.pl
Zdeněk Karfík is a lawyer, an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, and a member of the Appellate Committee of the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic; he is a long-standing external associate of the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. In his legal practice, he specializes in financial, civil and commercial law. He has published numerous articles in this field.
e-mail: karfik@volny.cz
Marie Karfíková is a professor of financial law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. In her academic work, she specializes in tax and insurance law. She regularly publishes articles on this subject in professional journals. She has co-authored numerous textbooks and monographs. Between 1999 and 2006,
she was a member of the Legislative Council of the Czech Republic; she has been a member of the Appellate Committee of the Czech National Bank since 2006 and a member of the Presidium of the Public Audit Oversight Council since 2009. She is also an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.
e-mail: karfikova@prf.cuni.cz
Kasatkina Aleksandra Sergeevna is a candidate of law, and lecturer at the Department of Private International Law at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation, Moscow. He has professional interests in private international law, international transport law, international commercial arbitration, and the modern codification of private international law.
e-mail.: akasatkina@hse.ru
László Kecskés, Professor and Head of the Civil Law Department, Faculty of Law, Pécs University of Sciences; Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; President of the Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Budapest) Scope of his research: civil law, private international law, arbitration, EU law and
approximation of laws.
e-mail: kecskeslaszlo@ajk.pte
Jesse Kennedy is an Australian legal practitioner, a former Associate to the Hon. Justice Gummow AC of the High Court of Australia and currently an Associate at Norton Rose in Sydney. He specialises in international arbitration with a focus on investment treaty law.
e-mail: jesse.kennedy@nortonrose.com
Vladimir Khvalei, MCIArb, is a partner in the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie and heads the firm’s CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Mr. Khvalei is Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, chairs the Arbitration Commission of ICC Russia and is also included on the list of arbitrators of the arbitration institutions in Austria, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Lukáš Klee – An expert on International Construction Law and FIDIC sample forms of contract, Lukáš currently works for a large construction company in central Europe. When away from the office, he lectures on International Construction Law at the Charles University Faculty of Law in Prague. As an extension of his teaching duties, Lukáš also trains lawyers at the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic. Lukáš regularly publishes articles in the Czech Republic and abroad and is the author of three books related to International Construction Law.
e-mail: klee@email.cz
Prof. et Doc. JUDr. Karel Klíma, CSc., dr. hab. is a university professor specializing in constitutional law. He is the head of the Legal Specialisations and Public Administration at the Metropolitan University in Prague.
Long time member of the Council of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), member of the Academy of Comparative Law, member of the World Jurist Association and its President of the Section of the Law Professors.
Email: advokatikhklima@gmail.com
JUDr. Libor Klimek graduated from the Faculty of Law, Bratislava College of Law in 2010. He then became a PhD studen at the Faculty of Law, Pan European University, Bratislava (formerly known as Bratislava College of Law). He is the author of several publications, domestic as well as foreign. All his research work, papers and publications are focused solely on the international and European aspects of Criminal Law.
e-mail: libor.klimek@yahoo.com
Mgr. et Bc. Luboš Kliment was born in Jihlava, Czech republic in 1980. He completed his studies in law at Masaryk University in Brno in 2004 and at the Technical University in Brno, Czech republic in 2006. He is an attorney in Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech republic.
e-mail: kliment@akkliment.cz
JUDr. Jan Kněžínek, Ph.D. (* 1979) is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, where he also completed his postgraduate studies. He currently serves as Vice Director of the Government Legislative Department of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. He is the co-author of several specialised publications and the author of numerous articles and essays in the area of public law, which were mainly published in specialised journals and magazines.
Dr. Inken Knief is a senior associate within the arbitration group of Hogan Lovells in Munich. Her practise comprises the area of international arbitration, under various institutional rules and national arbitration regimes.
e-mail: inken.knief@hoganlovells.com
Dr Jakub Kociubiński, PhD, LLM. is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of
JUDr. Michael Kohajda, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, School of Law, Department of Financial Law and Financial Science and an attorney at Diligentis Legal, Prague.
e-mail: kohajda@prf.cuni.cz
Mgr., Ph. D. student at Masaryk University Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, Consultant at the Supreme Administrative Court; Former Deputy Minister for Human Rights and National Minorities and Director of Section of Human Rights of the Office of the Government.
e-mail: kolackova@nssoud.cz
Dr. Oleksiy Kononov – Education: Economics & Law Faculty at Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine – Specialist in Law (2003); Department of Legal Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary – LL.M. (2007), S.J.D. (2010). He is a former legal practitioner in Ukraine.
e-mail: kononov.oleksiy@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Oskar Krejčí, CSc. (*1948) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University College of International and Public Relations Prague, a scientific worker at the Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and he teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrice. He has published appoximately twenty scientific books and more than one thousand varied studies and articles. He was an advisor to two Prime Ministers of the Czechoslovak federal government.
e-mail: oskar.krejci@umb.sk
Professor Andrzej Kubas is an attorney, a former lecturer at Jagiellonian University of Kraków and the former head of the Chair of Civil Law. He is presently the Senior Partner at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas,
e-mail: andrzej.kubas@kkg.pl
Professor Pierre Lalive is a senior partner and founder of Lalive, with over fifty years of experience in international law and arbitration. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in several hundred international arbitration proceedings. A key part of his practice involves interstate and state-investor disputes. Professor Lalive has held many academic positions in Switzerland and abroad, and has authored more than 200 publications.
e-mail: mscherer@lalive.ch
Davorin Lapaš LL.M, Ph.D, Professor of Public International Law, Department of Public International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Croatia.
e-mail: dlapas@pravo.hr
Petre Lazaroiu – currently holds the office of Judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania, an office he was appointed to in 2008. He is also Lecturer at the ‘Dimitrie Cantemir’ Christian University of Bucharest, where he is Coordinator of the Financial and Fiscal Law Course and the Banking and Financial Law Course.
e-mail: petre.lazaroiu@ccr.ro
Crenguta Leaua Dr. iur.; university lecturer in Business Law at the University of Economics in Bucharest and visiting lecturer in International Commercial Arbitration at “Petru Maior” University in Tg, Mures, Romania; vice-president of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania; member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration as a representative of the Romanian national ICC Committee; managing partner of “ Leaua & Asociatii” law firm in Bucharest, Romania.
e-mail: crenguta.leaua@leaua.ro
JUDr. Ing. Jan Lhotský is a PhD candidate in international law at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Law. His research and publications primarily cover two areas. Firstly, he writes on international criminal law with focus on the functioning of the International Criminal Court. Secondly, he also focuses on international human rights law in terms of its institutional frameworks and their influence on the enforceability of human rights.
e-mail: jan.m.lhotsky@gmail.com
JUDr. Jiří Lojda, LL.M. EUR., Ph.D. (born 1985) has been interested in transport law since his master studies at Charles University in Prague. Besides transport law, he is also active in the field of private international law (specifically European law relating to maintenance obligations). The author graduated from Charles University in Prague and Ludwig -Maxmilians - Universität in Munich. He also spent several months at the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law in Oslo during his doctoral studies.
e-mail: jiri.lojda@email.cz
JUDr. Martin Maisner, PhD. is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL. He is a renowned expert in the area of ICT Law, Outsourcing, ICT dispute resolution and CyberSecurity. He has written many publications and articles, has given lectures and presentations at international conferences; regularly lectures at several universities including Prague University of Economics, Masaryk University in Brno and Pan-European University in Bratislava. He is also an active arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitration disputes including specialised ICT and intellectual property cases and has represented clients in arbitrations in Prague, Geneva, Zurich, Hague and London.
e-mail: maisner@rowanlegal.com
Vit Makarius is a senior associate with Havel, Holasek & Partners, Prague, whose practice focuses on international arbitration. Prior to joining Havel, Holasek & Partners, he served a four-year term as a case lawyer with the European Court of Human Rights, where he worked on commercial law, civil law and regulatory matters.
e-mail: vit.makarius@havelholasek.cz
Doc. JUDr. Hana Marková, CSc., assistant professor (docent) of Financial Law and Financial Sciences at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Vice-dean of the faculty. She is dealing with teaching and research work. Area of specialization: budgetary law, tax law and fi nancial performance of local governments. To these issues has also published numerous articles in professional journals.
e-mail: markova@prf.cuni.cz
Ihar Martynenka is the chair of the Department of Civil Law and Process of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus), Associate professor, Member of the Belorussian committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and the head of the international project of international and national legal systems of protection of the historical and cultural heritage of the CIS countries. The sphere of his scientific interests covers: problems of protecting cultural heritage and the comparative analysis of the legislation of European countries on cultural heritage protection. He has 24 years of work experience in jurisprudence, including 14 years in the Office of the Public Prosecutor. He is the author of 210 scientific articles, including 6 books published in 12 countries.
e-mail: martinenko@tut.by
Doc. JUDr. Pavel Mates CSc., lecturer in administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Bohemia in Plzeň and at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague, specializes in administrative penalties and in information systems law, a topic on which he has published several monographs and a sizable number of articles in scholarly publications. He also concerns himself with the protection of privacy in administrative law, with particular consideration to police operations and the work of other public service bodies. He is an active member of government bodies that are in charge of drafting legislation.
e-mail: mate@ksp.zcu.cz
Collaborator at the Chair of Public Law/ Jean Monnet Chair (Researcher and Lecturer); 1st and 2nd State Exam in Law; work experience (traineeship) at Bavarian EU representation in Brussels; preparing a doctoral thesis on foreign relations of the German Federation member states; research fields: EU law, Public and Private International Law, Arbitration
Oleksandr Merezhko – professor, Dr hab., head of the Chair of Law at the Kiev National Linguistic University, professor at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, and author of numerous works devoted to the issues of public and private international law.
e-mail: amerezhko@yahoo.com
JUDr. PhDr. Petr Mlsna, Ph.D. – Education: Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague – Doctor of Laws; Ph.D. in Constitutional, European and International Laws; Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague - Doctor of Philosophy. He works as Director of the Department of Legislation of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. Petr Mlsna teaches at the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague (constitutional law) and at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (economic history of Germanspeaking countries). He has published more than 50 articles and essays and co-authored the monograph, International Treaties in Czech Law.
Dominik Moškvan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He holds Master’s degrees from Tilburg Law School and Masaryk University. His research interests lie in the area of European Union internal market law, external relations of the EU and international investment law and arbitration.
e-mail: dominik.moskvan@ua.ac.be
Dr. Josef Mrázek, DrSc. Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
e-mail: josef.mrazek@telecom.cz
Robert Mrljić LL.M, Ph.D. Candidate, Assistant at the Department of Public International Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Croatia.
e-mail: rob_mr2@yahoo.com
Nikolay Natov, Professor of PIL at the Faculty of Law, The St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria; Arbitrator and conciliator for Bulgaria at the ICSID; from 1993 to 2007 – arbitrator at CA/BCCI; since 2008 – Head International Arbitration Court of Legal Interaction Alliance (Sofia, Bulgaria); ICC ad hoc arbitrator – 3 cases; author of 4 books, over 100 articles on various aspects of private international law (in Bulgarian and English).
e-mail: natov.nikolay@gmail.com
Daniela Nováčková is an associate professor at the Faculty of Management of Comenius University in Bratislava and a Coordinator of the German Programme. In her academic work she has focused on European Economic Integration and Bilateral Investment Treaties. She has experience in approximation of European Law as a former expert of the Ministry of Finance of the
e-mail: daniela.novackova@fm.uniba.sk
Daniel Nový – Holds law degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of West Bohemia and an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Daniel works as a transactional lawyer for a large, international public utility company in Prague, the Czech Republic. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Central European and Euroasian Law Initiative (CEELI) Institute.
e-mail: novy.daniel@gmail.com
Zdeněk Nový is a senior lecturer in international law at Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He also acts as a legal counsel in international business and economic law and arbitration in Brno, Czech Republic. He holds master of law and Ph.D. in private international law from Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and LL.M. from European University Institute, Florence, Italy; He also obtained the Scholarship for the Summer Session in Private International law by The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands. He enjoyed a status of Independent Researcher at the UNIDROIT, Rome, Italy. He is Fellow of the European Law Institute, Vienna, Austria.
e-mail: zdenek.novy@law.muni.cz
Miloš Olík is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL who has considerable experience in the areas of investment disputes, international commercial arbitration and various forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has led teams representing government interests in investment disputes and multinational corporations in international commercial arbitration proceedings under various sets of rules (ICC, ICSID, SCC, and UNCITRAL). He is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court Attached to the Economic Chamber and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic for .cz domain disputes.
e-mail: olik@rowanlegal.com
Josef Ostřanský Associate at Ambruz & Dark, Deloitte Legal. He studied at Aarhus Universitet, School of Law, Denmark, and Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Czech Republic, where he earned his Master’s degree. Currently pursuing Geneva Master’s in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) at the Graduate Institute and University of Geneva. He focuses mostly on international investment law and arbitration, and public international law.
Prof. Salvatore Patti has taught at the University of Sassari, Italy (1978-1986), the University of Trieste, Italy (1986-1995) as well as the Universities of Zurich, Switzerland and Freiburg, Germany. Since 1995 he has been a full Professor of Private Law at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome, Italy. From 2005 to 2007 he taught a course in Civil Law focused on contracts for work and labor at the University “Bocconi” in Milan, Italy.
He has conducted periods of research in Munich, London and Stanford with scholarships provided by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the DAAD, the British Academy and the American Fulbright Commission.
Besides his activities in his law firm with offices in Rome, Milan and Munich, he is editor or co-editor of various legal journals.
Prof. JUDr. Monika Pauknerová, CSc., DSc., is professor of Private International Law and International Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, and at the Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and researcher at the Institute of State and Law, v.v.vi., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She is a member of the European Group for Private International Law and of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL); president of the Czech National Committee of the IACL, etc.; an arbitrator since 1985 and author of more than 140 publications.
e-mail: pauknero@prf.cuni.cz
Mateusz Pilich, Dr. iur., Assistant Professor – Chair in International Private and Trade Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw, Poland; Member of the Office for Studies and Analyses at the Supreme Court of Republic of Poland.
e-mail: m.pilich@wpia.uw.edu.pl
Mgr. Filip Plašil was born in Jihlava, Czech republic in 1988. He completed his studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech republic in 2012 and is an attorney in Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech republic. He publishes in the fields of history and law.
e-mail: plasil@akkliment.cz
Works as an expert witness specialised in the enterprise of appraising the financial assets, the intangible assets and movable assets. He is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia.
e-mail: polacek.bohumil@gmail.com
Karl Pörnbacher is a partner at Hogan Lovells’ Munich office and head of the firm’s German arbitration practice. The focus of his work is on national and international arbitration and litigation and alternative dispute resolution. His practice comprises disputes resulting from projects, energy, M&A, insurance and reinsurance and general commercial relationships. Mr. Pörnbacher is president of the arbitration court of the German-Polish Chamber of Commerce. Due to his specific experience he is frequently involved in cross-border disputes involving Poland and other Central and Eastern European Countries, both as arbitrator and counsel.
Mag. Corinna Potocnik is an Associate with Willheim Müller Attorneys at Law in Vienna and specializes in EU competition law and international arbitration. Before joining Willheim Müller in 2012, she worked at an Austrian boutique law firm specialized in international arbitration as well as at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in Vienna. Corinna graduated from the University of Vienna with a focus on International Law.
e-mail: c.potocnik@wmlaw.at
Full Professor at the University of Regensburg, Chair of Public Law, Comparative Law, EU Law and Economic Administrative Law, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam (Legal Relations of the EU with Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe), former Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law; for many years Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris I and Paris II; various times Visiting Professor at the Universities of Strasbourg, Roma (La Sapienza), Bologna; Director of the German Law Studies at the Moscow State Lomonossov University; Director of the EU Law Centre at Bahcesehir University Istanbul; Corresponding Member of the Bologna Academy of Science; Honorary Member of the Russian and Slovenian Association of Constitutional Law
Carlo Rasia is a researcher of Civil Procedural Law and a professor of European Procedural Law at the School of Law of the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna. His main research areas are focused on European Procedural Law and on National and International Arbitration. Among his works is the book Tutela giudiziale europea e arbitrato (European judicial protection and arbitration), Bologna, 2010. He participated in national and international research projects, as the European Commission project ‘European civil procedure and e-Justice implementation within the European Union’ (2010-2011). He is a member of the Italian Association of Civil Procedure Law. Since 2004 he has also practiced civil and commercial law in Bologna. His address is: Università di Bologna, Scuola di giurisprudenza, via Zamboni n. 22, Bologna, Italy.
e-mail: carlo.rasia@unibo.it.
Prof. JUDr. Naděžda Rozehnalová, CSc. - professor of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. Areas of specialization: private international law, commercial international law, arbitration. Author of a host of scholarly monographs and articles in professional periodicals both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Since 2007, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University.
e-mail: nadezda.rozehnalova@law.muni.cz
Ondřej Ručka - In-house legal counsel in a large, Czech industrial group, Ondřej Ručka’s main task is to provide legal support for the international business dealings of the group. In particular, he provides support concerning large investments and engineering projects outside the
e-mail: ondrej.rucka@gmail.com
Marieta Safta – is currently the First Assistant Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Romania, an institution where she has been employed since 2003. Marieta Safta is also Lecturer within the ‘Titu Maiorescu’ University of Bucharest, where she is Coordinator of the Constitutional Law Course and the Political Institutions Course.
e-mail: marietasafta@yahoo.com
Matthias Scherer, Partner, LALIVE (Geneva). The author wishes to thank Mr Guillaume Aréou and Mr George Walker, Legal Interns at LALIVE for their assistance with the preparation of the paper.
e-mail: mscherer@lalive.ch
Senior Lecturer, University of Geneva, seconded in part to the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Executive Director, Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS); Managing Editor, Journal of International Dispute Settlement. An earlier version of this essay has been published as ‘Theoretical Musings on the Roles of Dispute Resolution Systems – With Special Consideration of Online Dispute Resolution’, in ADR IN BUSINESS (A. Ingen-Housz, ed, 2010). Research supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, Ph.D. – senior researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre of the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her Ph.D. thesis on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was published in Polish (Komitet ONZ ds. Likwidacji Dyskryminacji Kobiet - ustrój, kompetencje, funkcjonowanie, Toruń 2011). Her main fields of research are discrimination issues with special focus on gender discrimination and the UN human rights mechanisms.
e-mail: k.sekowska-kozlowska@inp.pan.pl
Alexander P. Sergeev, Doctor of Law, professor of the Civil Law Department at the Law Faculty of St.Petersburg State Economical University, counsel with DLA Piper, Russian Government Prize laureate, President of Arbitration Court ‘IUS’, arbitrator of Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg CIC, expert in international disputes on Corporate, Contract, Intellectual Property Law, author and co-editor of more than 100 articles, works on Russian /English.
e-mail: apsergeev2004@mail.ru
Leonid Shmatenko (Dipl.-iur., Heinrich-Heine-University ofDüsseldorf) is Junior Fellow and Doctoral candidate at the Chairof German and Foreign Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. The author would like to thank Mehrdad Payandeh for the very useful feedback on this article.
e-mail: leonid.shmatenko@uni-duesseldorf.de
JUDr., Judge of District Court of Cheb, currently assigned to the Czech Supreme Court Author of commentary on European International Civil Procedure Law in Drápal, Bureš a kol.: Občanský soudní řád. Komentář
e-mail: pavel.simon@nssoud.cz
Harald Sippel works for the Viennese law firm Willheim Müller where he acts as counsel and arbitrator in international ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings. Harald obtained a Master in Law and PhD in law (summa cum laude) degree from the University Linz (Austria), as well as an MBA degree from Seoul National University (Korea) and a postgraduate diploma in arbitration from Queen Mary, University of London (U.K.). Harald is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
e-mail: h.sippel@wmlaw.at
Is a university lecturer, currently leading the International and European Law Department at Law Faculty of Paneuropean University in Bratislava, Areas of specialization: European law and constitutional law. His recent research focuses on judicial protection of European Union Law before Court of Justice and national courts of EU member states.
e-mail: miroslavslastan@gmail.com
Anait Smbatyan, PhD in Law, Head of Trade Law and Foreign-Economic Activity Department, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, author of over 50 publications on international trade law and international justice.
e-mail: anait_smbatyan@mail.ru
PhDr. Mgr. Jan Šmíd, Ph.D. teaches theory of law, constitutional law and political science at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague, political philosophy and philosophy of law at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and political ideologies at the University of Economics in Prague. He specializes in the above topics, which he has elaborated on in his contributions to several collections of papers and articles published in academic magazines.
e-mail: john_smid@yahoo.com, jan.smid@vsfs.cz
RA Mag. Barbara Helene Steindl, LL.M. (Columbia) MCIArb acts as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations under all major arbitration rules. Most of her work involves construction, investment protection, cross-border trade, distribution and sports arbitration. Mrs. Steindl is admitted to the Vienna bar and has passed the New York Bar exam. She is a former deputy counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and acts as the LCIA’s YIAG representative for Central Europe. She works in English, French and German.
e-mail: b.steindl@bkp.at
Prof. JUDr. Jozef Suchoža, DrSc. is a recognized authority in the field of commercial law. He is the author of several scholarly monographs and of a wealth of specialist articles and studies, and the co-author of the first comprehensive Slovak textbook on commercial law. He is a member of the Scientific Council at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and an international arbiter entered in the lists of arbiters of the Arbitration Court attached to the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. He is currently acting as the project manager in charge for a project funded by the Slovak Research And Development Agency (APVV) which focuses on the issue of out-of-court dispute resolution in Slovakia (LPP-0076-09 – Out-of-court/alternative dispute resolution in Slovakia).
e-mail: regina.palkova@upjs.sk
Dr. Martin Svatoš is a mediator and arbitrator based in
e-mail: svatosmartin@forarb.com
Marek Świątkowski is a partner in the Domański Zakrzewski Palinka Law Firm in Warsaw. Marek’s main practice areas cover mergers & acquisitions and investment treaty arbitration. He has acted for both investors and respondent state in investment treaty disputes.
e-mail: Marek.Swiatkowski@dzp.pl
Tatiana A. Tereshchenko has a Ph.D. in Law. She is an associate professor of the Civil Law Department at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State Economical University,. She is also an advocate with the Law Firm ‘Prime Advice Saint-Petersburg’, FCIArb, and an arbitrator in the Arbitration Court ‘IUS’ specializing in international disputes on Corporate, Contract, Intellectual Property Law. She is the author of more than 35 articles in both Russian and English.
Prof. JUDr. PhDr. mult. Michal Tomášek, DrSc. - Professor of European Law, head of Department of European Law. Graduated from the Charles University in Prague, Sorbonne University in Paris, Beijing University in China and University of Virginia. Author or co-author of several books on European and Chinese law, including Toward Constitutionalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (1992), Barriéres insoupconnées de l´Europe sans frontiéres (Bruxelles, 1995), Unternehmensgruppen in mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern (Tübingen, 2003), Grundfragen des europäischen Strafrecht (Würzburg, 2005) and La realización del mercado único europeo: experiencias hispanochecas (Santiago de Compostela, 2006).
e-mail: tomasekm@prf.cuni.cz
Agnieszka Trzaska is an attorney at law at the Polish law firm of Kubas Kos Gałkowski – Adwokaci. She has experience in international commercial arbitration and economic matters, including disputes between company shareholders. Ms. Trzaska has extensive experience in the preparation of opinions in the scope of civil law and commercial law. She has participated in projects related to bankruptcy proceedings and she has also worked on the team ensuring the provision of comprehensive legal services for one of the leading banks in
Email: agnieszka.trzaska@kkg.pl
JUDr. Jiří Valdhans, Ph.D. - research associate at the Department for international and European law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. Areas of specialization: private international law, commercial international law, arbitration. His recent research focuses in particular on noncontractual obligations with a foreign element. He publishes in the Czech Republic and abroad.
e-mail: jiri.valdhans@law.muni.cz
Evangelos Vassilakakis - professor of Private International Law, Faculty of Law, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D. Paris-Sorbonne I). Professor Vassilakakis is an attorney admitted before the Supreme Court of Greece and an arbitrator in the ICAC, VIAC, SCCI, CCIR and PAMA. He has served as a judge at the Special Supreme Court of Greece (2010-2011) in his capacity of Professor – Director of the Koufa Foundation for International Law and Human Rights.
Doc. iur. Natalia Viktorova, senior lecturer at Moscow State Law Academy. Areas of specialization: Private International Law, International Investment Law, International Investment Arbitration.
e-mail: vozgik@mail.mipt.ru
Mgr. Vojtěch Vomáčka is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Environmental Law and Land Law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. Areas of specialization: enforcement of the EU environmental law, environmental rights.
e-mail: vojtech.vomacka@nssoud.cz
Andreas von Staden is Assistant Professor of International Organization at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His principal research interests concern human rights law, international investment law, institutional design, and the democratic legitimacy of governance arrangements beyond the state. Prior to joining the St. Gallen faculty, he worked as a research associate at the Frankfurt-based research cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders.” He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and master’s degrees from Princeton, Yale, and Hamburg University.
e-mail: Andreas.vonstaden@unisg.ch
Veronika Vrbová is a PhD. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University, Slovakia where she deals with the area of European Insolvency Law. She studied at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she earned a Master’s degree and a Juris Doctor degree. She also studied International Business law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where she earned a Master’s degree.
e-mail: vrbova.v@gmail.com
Dr. Johannes Willheim, M.B.L.-HSG, LL.M. (Chicago) is a founding partner of Willheim Müller Attorneys at Law. Johannes was trained internationally in corporate and commercial law, with a strong focus on EU and US antitrust law and economics. He has served as party representative as well as arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. Johannes has acted as party representative in numerous arbitrations whose outcome depended on EU competition law. Johannes regularly teaches international dispute resolution courses and seminars.
e-mail: j.willheim@wmlaw.at
Ewelina Wyraz – Polish Masters Degree in Law, Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Silesia in Katowice, Intern at the Notarial Office of Jacek Wieczorek in Tarnowskie Gory, participant of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. She is interested in the international law of succession, particularly in a new European Certificate of Succession.
E-mail address: ewelinawyraz@gmail.com
Dr. Márton Leó Zaccaria (Assistant Lecturer, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law, Department of Agricultural Law, Environmental Law and Labour Law) graduated from the University of Debrecen Faculty of Law in 2010 as a jurist. After his studies he immediately started work at the Faculty of Law in Debrecen as a full-time PhD student in the field of labour law. He has already published several independent publications in Hungarian and in English mostly in connection with equal employment but in connection with other topics as well. Since 1st September he has worked as an assistant lecturer. He became a member of the Hungarian EU OSH (occupational safety and workplace health) research group this April, and he is also member of the Hungarian Labour Law Association.
e-mail: zaccaria.marton@law.unideb.hu
JUDr. Ing. Radka Zahradníková Ph.D LL.M, graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic and simultaneously from the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics. In 2003, she successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University in Bayreuth, and obtained her LL.M title. In 2006, she was awarded a Ph.D title after successfully defending her dissertation on the topic of Institutional arbitration. Since 2007, she has been a judge specializing in commercial and administrative disputes and disputes with a foreign element. She is also an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, specializing in civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution. She is the author of at least 30 journal papers, 2 monographs, and co-author other 3 monographs and about 15 articles in yearbooks from international conferences. She was also a member of the working group of the Ministry of Justice that amended the Czech law on arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards. She has lectured at foreign universities, in such as Limoges, Toulouse and Thessaloniki.
e-mail: radka.zahradnik@gmail.com
Mgr. Miroslava Zajíčková Ph.D. candidate at the department of Financial Law and Financial Science at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Area of specialization: tax law, the budgetary law, especially in the context of EU legislation, as well as studies of tax systems of member states of the European Union and their comparison. Since 2009 is a principal investigator of the grant GAUK No. 9815/2009 entitled “The tax base in selected countries of the European Union”.
e-mail: zajickova@prf.cuni.cz
Jozef Zámožík is a senior lecturer at
e-mail: jozef.zamozik@gmail.com
Dr. Julita Zawadzka is an attorney at law at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas Kos Gaertner. She has appeared in numerous court proceedings in the scope of civil law. She also is experienced in commercial law, in which she represents companies, among others, from the construction, energy, financial, and trade sectors. Dr. Zawadzka is the author of numerous articles, commentaries, didactic publications and monographs on civil and constitutional law.
Email: julita.zawadzka@kkg.pl
Kamil Zawicki is an attorney and partner at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas,
e-mail: kamil.zawicki@kkg.pl
Dr. Łukasz Żukowski was born in Wrocław in 1975. He completed his MA studies at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław in 1999. He is currently employed as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Constitutional Law at the University of Wrocław. Dr. Żukowski is the author of articles concerning Polish constitutional law and human rights. His main area of interest is the constitutional regulation of public funds. His dissertation was devoted to the issue of the Polish central bank’s position under constitutional law in the context of Poland’s accession to the eurozone.
e-mail: lzukowski1@wp.pl
