Jan Paulsson
Principal consultant
Experience
Jan Paulsson is co-head of the firm’s international arbitration and public international law groups. He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and the University of Paris.
He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of international arbitrations. He has conducted cases under the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA, and AAA Rules, as well as before the International Court of Justice.
Jan is President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, President of the Administrative Tribunal of the OECD, Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a board member of the AAA. He is a former President of the London Court of International Arbitration and the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.
Mr Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami and is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He is a Profesor Honorario of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.
He is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles, in particular the standard reference work ICC Arbitration (3rd edition 2000) which he co-authors with Messrs WL Craig and WW Park. His monograph Denial of Justice in International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish.
Languages
French, SwedishContact details
- Bahrain office
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Bahrain World Trade Centre
East Tower, 37th Floor
PO Box 18259
Manama Bahrain
- Telephone
- +973 1713 4333
- Fax
- +973 1713 4300
- Paris office
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2 rue Paul Cézanne
75008 Paris
France
- Telephone
- +33 1 44 56 44 56
- Fax
- +33 1 70 39 44 80