Academic Council
Since its foundation, the ITA has had a deep commitment to scholarship, and nowhere is this reflected better than in its Academic Council, made up of the top academics in the field of international arbitration. The Academic Council is a key constituent body of the ITA, intimately involved in its leadership, the preparation of its programs, and its publications and educational videos. It takes the lead in organizing the ITA-ASIL Conference each year in Washington, D.C. and actively participates in planning the ITA Workshop each June in Dallas.
Other Academic Council activities include:
Preserving Perspectives: International Arbitrators in Their Own Words
An ongoing series of oral history interviews with key figures to record the evolution of modern international arbitration in the words of those who have led it.
Legal Educators Resources Collection
This site is designed to collect and share syllabi, teaching notes, exams, and other original teaching materials prepared by international arbitration and dispute resolution instructors from around the world. This site also features the ITA Legal Educators Listserv (ITA-LEL) for instructors, designed to encourage the exchange of information and opinions on different pedagogical approaches, innovative teaching techniques and other topics relevant to the instruction of international dispute resolution.
ITA Online Education Library
Here you will find a variety of educational videos and webinars edited for use by lawyers, professors, students, law firms and corporate legal departments seeking to understand or teach international arbitration, presented by the world’s leading experts in this growing area of international practice. (available for online viewing, on USB drive or on DVD, with CLE/CPD credits available)
Chair
Chiara Giorgetti
University of Richmond School of Law
Richmond, VA
Vice Chairs
Mark Feldman
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Shenzhen, China
Victoria Shannon Sahani
Arizona State University - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Phoenix, AZ
Chair Emeritus
The Hon. Thomas Buergenthal
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, D.C.
Council Members
Crina Baltag
University of Bedfordshire, Dept. of Law and Finance
Luton, United Kingdom
Shahla Ali
Univeristy of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Andrea K. Bjorklund
L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Stavros L. Brekoulakis
Queen Mary University of London - Centre for Commercial Law Studies
London, United Kingdom
Charles H. Brower, II
Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, MI
Chester Brown
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Donald Earl Childress, III
Dean of Faculty
Professor of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law
Malibu, CA
Kathleen Claussen
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, FL
Giuditta Cordero Moss
Department of Private Law
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Prof. William S. Dodge
UC Davis School of Law
Davis, CA
Christopher R. Drahozal
University of Kansas School of Law
Lawrence, KS
Prof. Kun Fan
McGill University Faculty of Law
Montreal, Canada
Prof. Franco Ferrari
Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law
New York University School of Law
New York, NY
Veronique Fraser
Faculté de droit
Université de Sherbrooke
Serbrooke, Canada
J. Martin Hunter
Essex Court Chambers
London, United Kingdom
Susan L. Karamanian
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE
Joshua Karton
Associate Professor
Queens University Faculty of Law
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Won Kidane
Seattle University Law School
Seattle, WA
Céline Lévesque
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Munir Maniruzzaman
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Loukas Mistelis
Queen Mary University of London School of International Arbitration
London, United Kingdom
Julian D. Mortenson
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI
Margaret L. Moses
Assistant Professor of Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Chicago, IL
Sergio Puig de la Parra
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Tucson, AZ
Caroline S. Richard
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
Washington, D.C.
Marie-Claude Rigaud
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Maximilien-Caron
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Catherine Rogers
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
State College, PA
Dr. Stephan W. Schill
Professor of International and Economic Law and Governance
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christophe Seraglini
Betto Seraglini
Paris, France
Patricia Shaughnessy
University of Stockholm School of Law
Lidingoe, Swedens
Frédéric G. Sourgens
Associate Professor of Law
Washburn University School of Law
Topeka, KS
Maya Steinitz
Associate Professor of Law
The University of Iowa, College of Law
Iowa City, IA
Thomas J. Stipanowich
Pepperdine University School of Law
Malibu, CA
Jason Yackee
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI