Faculty 2019
Professor Paul Oberhammer (Vienna/London/St. Gallen) acts as course director.
The classes will be taught by first class international arbitration practitioners from both the bar and academia.
Michelle Glassman Bock
Michelle Glassman Bock
Partner in Squire Patton Boggs’s International Dispute Resolution Practice; Lecturer on International Litigation and Arbitration in the LLM program at Université Libre de Bruxelles; Featured in "Who's Who Legal: Arbitration 2017-2021" and recognized as a Gobal Leader in "Who's Who Legal: Arbitration" 2021-2022 and "Who's is Who Legal: Energy - Oil & Gas" 2022.
Selected Publications: The Adjustment Phase in Gas and LNG Price Arbitrations (2020); Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration in Wilhelmi, R., Stürner, M. (eds.) Mehrparteienschiedsverfahren Juridicum Schriften zum Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Spring (2021); Flexibility from Uncertainty, in LNG Industry (August 2022); The Evolution of Natural Gas Price Review Arbitrations, in The Guide to Energy Arbitration, Global Arbitration Review (2022); Force Majeure Issues in Today's Gas Market, in Global Arbitration Review (July 2022); Gas Payment Issues in Europe: What Are the Next Steps? in Global Arbitration Review (2022).
Christian Koller
Christian Koller
Professor at the University of Vienna; former professor at the University of Innsbruck; held a position as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellow at the University of Zurich from 2009 to 2011; specializes in international commercial arbitration and litigation; main areas of interest include domestic and international civil procedure and its interfaces with private law, international insolvency law, conflict of laws and comparative law.
Christian W. Konrad
Christian W. Konrad
Founding and managing partner of Konrad Partners; Austrian Attorney at Law (Rechtsanwalt), Solicitor (England & Wales), Euroadvokat (Czech Republic and Slovak Republic); immediate past Vice-President of the Kosovo Permanent Tribunal of Arbitration; Chartered Arbitrator at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; specializes in commercial and investment arbitration; has extensive experience with arbitral practice, procedure and advocacy both in civil and common law systems; regularly acts as counsel and as arbitrator in ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations; regularly advises clients on the protection of their investments with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and on the enforcement of arbitral awards and court judgments; member of the panels of various arbitration institutions worldwide; member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; member of the ICC Taskforce “Addressing issues of corruption in international arbitration”; co-founding member of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP).
Author of numerous publications in the field of arbitration and investment protection.
Paul Oberhammer
Paul Oberhammer
Professor at the University of Vienna; permanent visiting professor at the Law School of St. Gallen University, Switzerland; formerly full professor at Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany and at Zurich University, Switzerland; admitted to the bar in Hamburg, Germany; serves as of counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, London (International Arbitration Practice Group); chairman of the working group that drafted the Austrian law on arbitration which was enacted in 2006; practical experience in different fields of arbitration as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairman, mainly in ICC, VIAC, ad-hoc, and SCAI arbitrations.
Author of about 250 legal publications, among them studies on international arbitration, litigation, civil and commercial law.
Helmut Ortner
Helmut Ortner
Founding Partner at PARAGON Advocacy; focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes; admitted to the New York and the Austrian bar; studied economics and law in Innsbruck, Vienna, Harvard and Yale; lecturer on comparative law and alternative dispute resolution at various universities, including the universities of Vienna, Linz, and Innsbruck, as well as the Europainstitut in Saarbrücken.
Selected Publications: together with T. Tiede and B. Koch: Conflict of Law – Text and Materials, (5th ed. 2018); together with F. T. Schwarz and J. A. Trenor (eds.): Contractual Performance and COVID-19 (2020); together with M. Kern and K. Plavec: Applicable Law (2020); together with F. Schwarz: Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration? (2021); together with C. Fischer-Czermak and C. Nigsch: Private Law in Graphs (5th ed. 2021).
Friederike Schäfer
Friederike Schäfer
Partner with Zeiler Floyd Zadkovich (ZFZ); graduate of the University of Freiburg, Germany and admitted to the bar in Germany and Austria; expert in international dispute resolution, with a strong focus on international arbitration; before joining ZFZ private practice as well as counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC Court; worked with various other sets of arbitration rules, such as VIAC, UNCITRAL and DIS rules in different capacities, including as sole arbitrator; clients in various aspects of commercial and corporate matters and regularly represented clients before the Austrian courts; advised clients in various matters concerning private foundations and real estate; regular lecturer on dispute resolution at international and national conferences.
Patricia Shaughnessy
Patricia Shaughnessy
Professor at Stockholm University where she created the Master of International Commercial Arbitration Law Program; specializes in international disputes and commercial law; a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration and ICC Commission; was a board member and Vice-Chair of the SCC Arbitration Institute, as well as a member of the drafting committees for the SCC Rules; government-appointed expert on the legislative committee for the 2019 revisions to the Swedish Arbitration Act; acts as an arbitrator, expert, and consultant, and leads projects related to commercial law and dispute resolution in many countries; has served as a fellow to the US Supreme Court; practiced law for ten years in the US; President of the Vis Moot Organization.
She publishes extensively and is a frequent speaker at leading universities and international conferences.
Michael Waibel
Michael Waibel
Professor of international law at the University of Vienna; previously he taught for a decade at the University of Cambridge; from 2015 to 2019 he was co-deputy director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Director of Studies at Jesus College; in 2010/2011 he was the Schmidheiny Visiting Assistant Professor in Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen; in 2019 he was Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School; the focus of his research is international law, international economic law, and international dispute settlement; he received the Deák Prize of the American Society of International Law, the Book Prize of the European Society of International Law and a Leverhulme Prize for his research.