Nigel A. Blackaby
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
701 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington D.C., 20004
United States of America
Co-Chair LCIA Young International Arbitration Group (1997- 2000); Secretary, LCIA Latin America Users’ Council (2000- ); Editor, Arbitration International (1995- ); President, IBA Investment Arbitration Subcommittee (2009- ); Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.
LCIA, IBA, Law Society, IAI
LCIA, ICDR
Acting as counsel in over 70 arbitration matters (ICC, AAA and LCIA rules)
Co-author of fourth and fifth editions of leading text, “Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration” (Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, 2004) (Oxford, 2009) [Spanish edition “Teoria y practica del Arbitraje Comercial Internacional” (Aranzadi, 2006) and Argentine edition (La Ley, 2007); Coeditor and author of “International Arbitration in Latin America” (Kluwer,2003); Co-author of “Guide to ICSID Arbitration” (Kluwer, 2nd edition 2010); Author (with Lluís Paradell) of chapter on Investment Treaty Arbitration in “Bernstein's Handbook of Arbitration Practice”; Contributor to ASA Conference Series (2002) on “Public Policy and Investment Treaty Arbitration”; Contributor to “El Contrato de Arbitraje” (LEGIS, 2005) on “El Arbitraje según los tratados de inversion y los capítulos de inversion en los tratados de libre comercio”; Contributor to “Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration” (Kluwer, 2006) on “Investment Arbitration and Commercial Arbitration (or the Tale of the Dolphin and the Shark)”; Contributor to “Arbitraje Internacional: Tensiones Actuales (LEGIS, 2007) on “La Importancia de la Forma y del Alcance de la Decisión Arbitral”; Contributor to ‘El Arbitraje Comercial Internacional –Estudio de la Convención de Nueva York con motivo de su 50º aniversario”(Abeledo Perrot, 2008) on “Arbitrabilidad de Diferencias no Contractuales”;Contributor to “Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional” (Universidad del Rosario, 2008) on “Alternativas de Reparación en el arbitraje internacional
de inversiones”; Contributor to “The Backlash against Investment Arbitration” (Kluwer, 2010) on “Amicus curiae: a panacea for legitimacy in Investment Arbitration?”; Contributor to “The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration” (Oceana, 2010) on “Direct and re-direct examination”; “The English Court's Assistance to Overseas Arbitration” 13 Arbitration International, 431; “Arbitration and Brazil: A Foreign Perspective” 17 Arbitration International,129; “Commercial Arbitration in Latin America”, Latin Lawyer Review –Arbitration 2003; “A New Role for Arbitrators” (with Jan Paulsson) The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitrators 2001; “La nueva ley de arbitraje de Inglaterra” (with Alessandro Spinillo) Jurisprudencia Argentina 1998; “Was Carlos Calvo misunderstood?” (with Jan Paulsson) The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitrators 2003; “International Arbitration in the MERCOSUR - Is Harmonisation the Solution?” 9 (with Sylvia Noury) Law and Business Review of the Americas, 445; “El arbitraje según los
tratados bilaterales de inversión y tratados de libre comercio en América Latina” Revista Internacional de Arbitraje, Vol.1 No. 1 Junio - Diciembre 2004; “ICSID Denunciation :a storm in a teacup?” in Cahiers de l’Arbitrage, 2010