Homayoon Arfazadeh
Python & Peter
8 Av. Jules Crosnier
1206 Geneva
Switzerland
Lecturer in Geneva Institute of International and Development Studies, Counsel, Regional Centre for Arbitration, Kuala Lumpur 1991; Internship: ICC Court of International Arbitration (1991); Iran-US Claims Tribunal (1990); Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi, (1990).
Geneva and Swiss Bar Associations; List of Int’l Arbitrators of major arbitration institutions; Swiss Arbitration Association; N.Y. Bar Association; Am. Soc. Int’l L.
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Professor Pierre Lalive in BULLETIN OF THE SWISS ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION, 2002, No. 3, pp. 555-556). L'ordre public du fond et l'annulation de sentences arbitrales internationales en Suisse, in REVUE SUISSE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DE DROIT EUROPEEN, 1995, pp. 245 ff. Settlement of international trade disputes in South East Asia: The experience of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, in THE MALAYAN LAW JOURNAL, MLJ cxxii, Singapore, April 1992. New Perspectives in South East Asia and Delocalised Arbitration in Kuala Lumpur, in JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION, JIA, Vol. 8 N° 4, p. 104, December 1991. Law, Religion and Family in the Islamic Republic of Iran: An Introduction, in IRAN SEMINAR - DANISH AND NORDIC REFUGEE COUNCILS, IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNHCR REGIONAL OFFICE, Copenhagen, November 1991. Development Arrested by Law? Globalisation, Culture and Choice in a Legal Gridlock, work in progress; draft available on request.