Welcome and Introduction to the 27th Annual ITA Workshop: Subconscious Influences in International Arbitration - World Arbitration and Mediation Review, Vol. 9 No. 4
R. Doak Bishop, Partner in King & Spalding’s Houston Office. Co-Chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Bishop holds a B.A. degree with high honors and departmental distinction from Southern Methodist University (1973), and JD degree with honors from the University of Texas Law School (1976), where he was Research Editor of the Texas Law Review. Over 35 years of legal practice, with a focus on international arbitration and foreign investment disputes. Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Board of Directors of the AAA; Board of Trustees of the Center for American and International Law; Chair of the ITA; Member of the US delegation to the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes; Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Third – The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration; Adjunct Professor, SMU Law School (1999) (International Commercial Arbitration), University of Houston Law School (2002) (Foreign Investment Disputes), University of Texas Law School (2013) (Foreign Investment Disputes), and University of Oklahoma Law School (2011, 2012) (Foreign Investment Disputes); Co-Chair, International Litigation Committee of ABA’s Litigation Section (1998-2000); Chair, Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas (1998-1999). Mr. Bishop specializes in international arbitration of international energy disputes, investment and infrastructure disputes, construction disputes, and environment issues. He has registered more than 25 ICSID arbitrations and represented investors in about 30 investment arbitrations against foreign governments. Mr. Bishop has been an arbitrator in about 75 arbitrations, including NAFTA and BIT arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. He is editor of The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration (2nd ed. 2010); co-author with Professor James Crawford and Professor Michael Reisman, Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials and Commentaries (2005); and editor in Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereigns (2009).
