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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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.
Prof. nzw. et Doc. JUDr. Karel Klíma, CSc., dr. hab. Is a university lecturer currently leading the Constitutional Law Deaprtment at the Law Faculty of West Bohemian University in Plzeň. 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 for the Czech Republic.
e-mail: khklima@mbox.vol.cz
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
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
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 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
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. 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
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.
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
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
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. 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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
