A. INTRODUCTION

1. I hold the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair as a Professor of Law at the University of Miami and am a Centennial Professor in the Law Faculty of the London School of Economics. I am a practising lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. I am head of the firm's Public International Law Group and the joint head of its International Arbitration Group. I was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1975 and became an avocat it. la Cour de Paris in 1977. I obtained a B.A. from Harvard College in 1971, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1975, where I was an editor of the Law Journal, and a Diplome d'etudes superieurs specialisees from the University of Paris in 1977.