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Albert Jan van den Berg Visiting Fall 2009
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Albert Jan van den Berg is visiting the Law School from The Netherlands, where he is a Professor at Law and the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute. The world-renowned arbitrator holds a Doctor of Laws from Erasmus University Rotterdam; a Docteur en droit from the University of Aix-en-Provence; a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University’s Institute on Foreign Law; and a Master of Laws from the University of Amsterdam.
Professor Van den Berg is a founding partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels. He was previously a partner at the law firms of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot, both in Amsterdam, as well as Van Doorne & Sjollema Advocaten in The Netherlands. He also worked as Secretary-General of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and at the department of international commercial arbitration of TCM Asser Institute. Additionally, Professor Van den Berg is former Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration and is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, the Commission on International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, LCIA Company, and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.
Fluent in Dutch, English, and French, Professor Van den Berg has authored and edited several publications on various topics of international arbitration. He currently serves as the General Editor of Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, a leading international commercial arbitration publication, and is a member of the editorial boards of London’s Global Counsel and Global Arbitration Review, and Rotterdam’s Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage. He has been honored widely for his work over the years, and was named the world’s leading commercial arbitrator by The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers in 2006.
He will teach a workshop on The New York Convention during the fall 2009 semester.
