Faculty Biographies
Stavros Brekoulakis studied law at Athens and London and obtained a first class LLB from Athens and his LLM from King’s College London. He is also member of the Athens Bar having practiced in shipping law and dispute resolution.
He lectures on International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration, and International Commercial Litigation. He also convenes a module on arbitration advocacy and lectures on legislative drafting and arbitration. He will shortly submit his doctoral thesis on “International Arbitration and Third Parties.”
His academic research focuses on international commercial arbitration, conflict of laws, multiparty and complex dispute resolution, issues on jurisdiction of tribunals and national courts, and enforcement of awards and national judgments.
Thomas Carbonneau is the Samuel L. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law at the Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. He is generally regarded as one of the world's leading experts on international commercial arbitration and as an acknowledged expert on domestic arbitration. He is the faculty director of Penn State's Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice and the director of the law school's McGill Faculty of Law Summer Program in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Professor Carbonneau is the editor-in-chief of the World Arbitration and Mediation Report and executive editor of the Journal of American Arbitration, two widely read and well-regarded professional publications published by the Institute. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of La Revue de L'Arbitrage and is the author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed books and 75 scholarly articles. Professor Carbonneau, who is also the former Moise S. Steeg Jr. Professor of International Law at Tulane University School of Law, is recognized by his students as an outstanding teacher. Professor Carbonneau is a former Rhodes Scholar and has B.A. degrees from Bowdoin College and Oxford University. He also holds M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Norah Gallagher is a specialist in the areas of international arbitration and public international law. She has acted in arbitrations under ICC, ICSID, LCIA as well as ad hoc arbitrations. She regularly advises on issues concerning arbitration agreements including defective or pathological clauses, bifurcated clauses and multiparty arrangements as well as all procedural aspects of international arbitration and enforcement of awards. Before joining Herbert Smith she was a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge for several years working exclusively on international dispute resolution. She has advised States and corporations in relation to a wide variety of public international law issues, including land and maritime boundary disputes, investment disputes involving expropriation claims arising under bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty. She has also been involved with cases before the International Court of Justice. Norah is also a part-time lecturer on the International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement course at Queen Mary, University of London.
Dr. Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M. Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at the Center for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary, University of London, where he is Director of Studies of the School of International Arbitration. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University, School of Law. He teaches at the University of London LL.M. program and is the coordinator of the courses in International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration, International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement, and International Trade Law. He also teaches International Commercial Litigation. Professor Mistelis also directs the Diploma in International Arbitration by Distance Learning and the Diploma in International Arbitration, which is offered by CCLS in association with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Professor Mistelis is Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods ) and coordinator of the Queen Mary Case Translation Program, part of the CISG Database (IALL Website Award 2002). He studied law at Athens (LLB) Strasbourg (Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights); Hanover (Magister Legum Europae and Dr. iuris) and Keio (Certificate in Japanese International Trade Law). He is a Member of the Athens Bar (since 1993). Besides English he is fluent in German and Greek, has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian. He maintains a selective arbitration and consulting practice in respect of international commercial and investment disputes, secured transactions and complex contractual matters, including e-commerce and technology matters. Professor Mistelis also has participated in a number of experts groups, including for the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the International Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, and UNCTAD. His most recent publications include COMMERCIAL LAW: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICE, (Co-editor with J. Lowry), (LexisNexis Butterworths UK 2005, co-edited by J. Lowry) and COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION (Kluwer Law International 2002, co-authored with Kröll and Lew).
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