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Delissa A. Ridgway

Address: 

Judge
U.S. Court of International Trade
One Federal Plaza
New York, NY 10278
U.S.A.

Phone Number: 
(212) 264-5480
Fax Number: 
(212) 264-5471
Email: 
delissa_ridgway@cit.uscourts.gov
Born: 
1955, Missouri
Languages: 
English French
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
B.A. 1975, M.S. (coursework completed) 1976, Univ. of Missouri- Columbia; J.D. 1979, Northeastern Univ. School of Law
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to District of Columbia Bar 1979
Present Position: 
Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
Professional Experience: 

Adjunct Professor of International Law, Cornell Law School (1999-present); Chair, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the U.S. (1994-1998); Member, International Practice Group, Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge (1979-1994); Adjunct Professor of International Law, American Univ./Washington College of Law (1992-1994); Consultant to numerous international organizations (1990-present), including United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, Helsinki Commission, Council of Europe, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Information Agency; Law Clerk, United States District Court for District of Columbia (1979)

Professional Associations: 

The District of Columbia Bar; Amercian Law Institute; Assoc. of the Bar of the City of New York; Federal Judges Assoc.; National Assoc. of Women Judges; American Bar Foundation; D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference; Federal Bar Association; Federal Bar Foundation; Women's Bar Assoc.; Women's Bar Assoc. Foundation; ABA

Panels of Arbitrators: 

ICC International Court of Arbitration/U.S. Council for International Business; AAA (International Panel)

Arbitration Experience: 

Former Chair of permanent three-member international tribunal responsible for adjudicating claims of U.S. nationals against other governments (e.g., the Iran-U.S. claims, claims against Vietnam, claims against Albania and claims against Cuba, as well as claims of U.S. survivors of the Holocaust against Germany); Arbitrator or Counsel, international arbitration of more than a dozen arbitrations, primarily before the ICC and the International Arbitral Center in Vienna (1987- )

Areas of Specialization: 
Computer Law
Contracts
Corporate
Energy
International Trade
Nationalization & Expropriation
Technology
Publications from JURIS: 
International Arbitration: The Next GROWTH INDUSTRY - Dispute Resolution Journal - Vol. 54, No. 1
Publications: 

Author of articles on arbitration, litigation, international claims and administrative law published in professional journals; Frequent speaker on international commercial arbitration, international claims, customs and international trade law, and international business transactions: “The Role of Judges as Guardians of the ADR Process,” Commercial ADR in the XXI Century: The Road Ahead for Latin American and the Caribbean, sponsored by the Multilateral Investment Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the AAA (Oct. 27, 2000); Keynote Remarks, Fifth Biennial Dispute Resolution Conference, International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (May 14, 1999); and other speeches.