Professor Loukas Mistelis short bio - Wilhelm Merton-Zentrum

Professor Dr Loukas Mistelis, MCIArbClive Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and ArbitrationDirector, School of International ArbitrationCentre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of LondonLoukas Mistelis is the Clive Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Lawand Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University ofLondon. He is also Visiting Professor, NYU in London (since 2006), and ColumbiaUniversity Law School (spring semester 2007). He teaches International andComparative Commercial Arbitration, International Trade and Investment DisputeSettlement, International Trade Law and International Commercial Litigation on theUniversity of London LLM programme. He is also the Secretary of CISG-AC(Advisory Council of the UN Convention on Contract for the International Sale ofGoods www.cisg-ac.org) and the co-ordinator of the Queen Mary Case TranslationProgramme, part of the award winning CISG Database: www.cisg.law.pace.edu. He isalso an Academic Member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute ofInternational and Comparative Law.Professor Mistelis was educated in Greece (LLB Hons Athens 1991); France(Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights, IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990);Germany (MLE magna cum laude, 1992, Dr iuris summa cum laude, Law School,Hanover, Germany, 1998); and Japan (Certificate in Japanese international tradelaw, Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998). He has been a member of the AthensBar since 1993. He is fluent in English, German and Greek, and has good knowledgeof French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian.He maintains a selective arbitration and consulting practice in respect ofinternational commercial and investment disputes, secured transactions and complexcontractual matters. He has practiced law in Germany, Greece and the UnitedKingdom, having also acted as a consultant in Cambodia, Japan, Moldova, Poland,and Ukraine.His arbitration experience covers ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC and Moscow cases. Hehas been listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45,amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list and is also listed on the Who’sWho Commercial Arbitration 2007.His publications (in English, German, Greek and Russian) include 45 referred articlesand seven books including Charakterisierungen und Qualifikation im IPR. ZurLehre einer parteispespezifischen Qualifikation im Kollisionsrecht der privatenWirtschaft (Mohr Siebeck 1999); Foundations and Perspectives of InternationalTrade Law (co-editor/author, Sweet & Maxwell: London 2001); ComparativeInternational Commercial Arbitration (with Lew and Kröll, Kluwer LawInternational, 2003); Commercial Law: Perspectives and Practice (Lexis Nexis2006) (co-editor); Pervasive Issues in International Arbitration (co-editor, KluwerLaw International 2006) and Arbitration Insights (co-editor and author, Kluwer Law

International 2007). He is also member of the Editorial Board of ArbitrationInternational and of Global Arbitration Review.Recent Arbitration Related Publications• Arbitration Insights (Kluwer, 2006) (co-editor, with JDM Lew and author ofChapter 1)• Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration (Kluwer, 2006) (co-editorwith JDM Lew)• Commercial Law: Perspectives and Practice - Essays in celebration of the25th anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies,Queen Mary University of London by Professor Sir Roy Goode (Lexis Nexis,2006) (co-editor with J. Lowry and co-author)• Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer, 2003) (withJDM Lew and S Kröll)• Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law (Sweet & Maxwell,2001) (co-editor with I.F. Fletcher and M. Cremona and author of chapter 1)• "Reality Test: Current State of Affairs in Theory and Practice Relating to "LexArbitri"," in Zivil- und Wirtschaftsrecht im Europäischen und GlobalenKontext / Private and Commercial Law in a European and Global Context -Festschrift für Norbert Horn zum 70. Geburtstag 1005 (K.P. Berger, G.Borges, H. Herrmann, A. Schlüter and U. Wackerbarth, eds., 2006)• "Arbitration Insights: Evolution and Themes," in Arbitration Insights 1 (L.Mistelis and J.D.M. Lew eds., Kluwer, 2006)• "Workshop on Research, Teaching and Training in International Arbitration:An Introduction," 22(2) Arb. Int'l 243 (2006)• "International Arbitration – Corporate Attitudes and Practices. 12 PerceptionsTested: Myths, Data and Analysis. Empirical Research Report," 15 Am. Rev.Int'l Arb. 525 (2004); also published as an executive summary atwww.pwc.com/arbitrationstudy (translated also in French, Japanese andTurkish)• "Confidentiality and Third Party Participation in Investment Arbitration,"21(2) Arb. Int'l 211 (2005); also published in International Investment Lawand Arbitration: Leading Cases from the ICSID, NAFTA, Bilateral Treatiesand Customary International Law 169 (Cameron May, T. Weiler ed., 2005)• "UNIDROIT Principles Applied as 'Most Appropriate Rules of Law' in aSwedish Arbitral Award," III(3) Uniform L. Rev. / Rev. dr. uniforme 631(2003)• "ADR in England and Wales: A Successful Case of Public Private Partnership,"in Global Trends in Mediation 137 (Centrale für Mediation, N. Alexander ed.,2003)• "ADR in England and Wales," 12 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 167 (2001); alsopublished in Studies in UK Law 2002, at 197 (UK National Committee ofComparative Law/British Institute of International and Comparative Law, J.Bell ed., 2003)• "Is Harmonisation a Necessary Evil? Use and Abuse of Comparative Law andthe Future of Harmonisation," in Foundations and Perspectives ofInternational Trade Law 1 (Sweet and Maxwell, I.F. Fletcher, L. Mistelis andM. Cremona eds., 2001)• "'Keeping the Unruly Horse in Control' or Public Policy as a Bar toEnforcement of (Foreign) Arbitral Awards," 2(4) Intl L. FORUM dr. int. 248(2000)• General Editor, Oxford University Press, Monographs in InternationalArbitration

• Editor, Arbitration International,• Editor, Global Arbitration Review• Editor, Queen Mary Case translation programme, www.cisg.law.pace.edu• Editor, Revista e-mercatoriaContact Details School of International ArbitrationCentre for Commercial Law StudiesQueen Mary University of London67-69 Lincoln’s Inn FieldsLondon WC2A 3, UK℡ +44 20 7882 8075; mobile: +44 78 2112 7749 +44 20 7882 8101 (office); +44 20 8181 6616 (personal) L.Mistelis@qmul.ac.uk