Professor William W. Park talks to Law Vox about Arbitration International

Oxford Law Vox

In this podcast International arbitration expert William Park is captured in conversation with his Research Assistant Maria Slobodchikova. Together, they discuss cross-border civil procedure, arbitral tribunals, the different level playing fields in the cross-border transactions and international economic co-operation. They also discuss William’s experience in Swiss bank and investor-state arbitrations, as well as William’s wider career in arbitration and his career milestones. These include his first arbitration practising as a young lawyer in Paris, and how William juggles the different roles in teaching arbitration, practising as an arbitrator and in editing the journal: Arbitration International. William Park is General Editor of Arbitration International(http://arbitration.oxfordjournals.org), published on behalf of the London Court of International Arbitration, and is also author of Arbitration of International Business Disputes (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199657131.do), both published by Oxford University Press. William W. (Rusty) Park is Professor of Law at Boston University, respected Arbitrator, and President of the London Court of International Arbitration. His practice and teaching focus on international financial and commercial transactions. He was previously Director of Banking Law Studies at Boston University and has held visiting academic appointments at the universities of Cambridge, Dijon, Hong Kong, Auckland and Geneva, as well as the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has served as arbitrator in ICC, AAA, LCIA, ICSID, IACAC, UNCITRAL and ad hoc proceedings, and arbitrates in French as well as English. He was appointed to the Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in 2008. Park has published widely and is also General Editor of Arbitration International, the Official Journal of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).