Barton Legum
Dentons
5, boulevard Malesherbes
75008 Paris
France
Dentons Europe LLP (formerly Salans LLP) (Paris, France): Partner and Global Co-Chair, Litigation and Dispute Resolution – January 2009 – present;.Debevoise & Plimpton (Paris, France): Counsel – November 2004 – December 2008; United States Department of State; Office of the Legal Adviser (Washington, D.C.): Chief, NAFTA Arbitration Division - Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes - January 2000-July 2004; Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, New York): Counsel - January 1998-January 2000; Associate -October 1987-December 1997; Honorable Carolyn Dineen King; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Houston, Texas): Law Clerk (August 1986-August 1987).
Roster of Foreign Arbitrators, ICC France National Committee, International Arbitration Institute.
Many cases under ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC and UNCITRAL rules, including among others Methanex Corporation v. United States of America, 44 I.L.M. 1345 (2005) (Award of 3 Aug.);
Loewen Group, Inc. v. United States of America, 42 I.L.M. 811, 7 ICSID Rep. 443, 4 J. World Investment 675, 15:5 World Trade & Arb.
Materials 97 (2003) (Award of 26 June). ADF Group Inc. v United States of America, 15:3 World
Trade & Arb. Materials 55 (June 2003), 4 J. World Investment 125 (2003), 18 ICSID Review-
Foreign Investment L.J. 195, 6 ICSID Rep. 470 (2003) (Award of 9 Jan.); Mondev International Ltd. v. United States of America, 42 I.L.M. 85, 15:3 World Trade & Arb. Materials 273 (June 2003), 6 ICSID Rep. 192, 125 I.L.R. 110 (Award of 11 Oct. 2002);
Methanex Corp. v. United States of America, 7 ICSID Rep. 239, 14:6 World Trade & Arb. Materials 109 (Dec. 2002) (Partial Award of 7 Aug.); Loewen Group, Inc. v. United States of
America, 7 ICSID Rep. 442, 129 J. Droit Int’l 217 (2002) (French translation) (Decision on Jurisdiction of 9 Jan. 2001).
PUBLICATIONS FROM JURIS:
Investment Treaty Arbitration’s Contribution to International Commercial Arbitration - Chapter 29
- ICDR Handbook on International Arbitration & ADR - Third Edition (/library/investment-treatyarbitration%E2%80%99s-contribution-international-commercial-arbitration-chapter-29)
Investment Treaty Arbitration's Contribution to International Commercial Arbitration - Dispute
Resolution Journal - Vol. 60, No. 3 (/library/investment-treaty-arbitrations-contributioninternational-commercial-arbitration-dispute)
Comment: A Defense of the 2004 United States Model Investment Treat - WAMR 2010 Vol. 4,
No. 2 (/library/comment-defense-2004-united-states-model-investment-treat-wamr-2010-
vol-4-no-2)
Case Law of Tribunals other than ICC and ICSID - Part 1, Chapter 4 - State Entities in International Arbitration (/library/case-law-tribunals-other-icc-and-icsid-part-1-chapter-4-state-entitiesinternational)
Pre-Dispute Waivers of Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Practical Approach - Chapter 15 -
Between East and West: Essays in Honour of Ulf Franke (/library/pre-dispute-waiversinvestment-
treaty-arbitration-practical-approach-chapter-15-between-east)
The Introduction of an Appellate Mechanism: the U.S. Trade Act of 2002 - Chapter 13 -
Annulment of ICSID Awards (/library/introduction-appellate-mechanism-us-trade-act-2002-
chapter-13-annulment-icsid-awards)
PUBLICATIONS:
Books: Editor, Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (Law Business Research 1st ed. 2016; 2d ed. 2017; 3d ed. 2018); Editor, International Litigation Strategies and Practice (ABA Int’l Practitioner’s Deskbook Series 2d ed. 2014) (with co-editors Ethan Berghoff and Theodore Edelman);
Editor, International Litigation Strategies and Practice (ABA Int’l Practitioner’s Deskbook Series 2005);
Articles, Essays and Notes:
Annulment (ICSID), in HÉLÈNE RUIZ FABRI, ED., MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL PROCEDURAL LAW (forthcoming 2018) (with Jungmin Cho).
Articles 28-35 (on Conciliation) of the ICSID Convention, in GLORIA ALVAREZ, JULIEN FOURET & REMY GERBAY, EDS., THE ICSID CONVENTION, RULES AND REGULATIONS: A COMMENTARY (forthcoming 2018) (with Anna Crevon).
An Overview of Investment Arbitration Procedure, in KATIA YANNACA-SMALL, ED., ARBITRATION UNDER INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS: A GUIDE TO THE KEY ISSUES 103 (2d ed. 2018).
Rationae Temporis or Temporal Scope, in BARTON LEGUM, ED., INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION REVIEW 24 (Law Business Research 3d ed. 2018) (with Michelle Catherine Gilfedder and Niccolò Castagno).
France, in INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION REVIEW 192 (9th ed. 2018) (with Jean-Christophe Honlet, Anne-Sophie Dufêtre and Annelise Lecompte).
The International Minimum Standard of Treatment of Aliens and Human Rights: A Pedigree in the Rule of Law, 1 EUROPEAN INVESTMENT LAW & ARBITRATION REV. 274 (2016).
France, in INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION REVIEW 206 (7th ed. 2016) (with Jean-Christophe Honlet, Anne-Sophie Dufêtre and Annelise Lecompte).
Rationae Temporis or Temporal Scope, in BARTON LEGUM, ED., INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION REVIEW 28 (Law Business Research 1st ed. 2016) (with Michelle Bradfield, Catherine Gilfedder and Niccolò Castagno).