Bonus content: Constantine Partasides and Nigel Blackaby on how they started out in Arbitration

Oxford Law Vox

In this bonus extra feature from the Law Vox podcast, international arbitration experts Nigel Blackaby and Constantine Partasides tell George Miller how they started out in the field of arbitration, and how they were invited to join the writing team of Alan Redfern and Martin Hunter for Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration published by Oxford University Press. Nigel Blackaby is a partner and head of the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Washington DC. Nigel acts as counsel and arbitrator with a particular focus on Latin America. He has represented foreign investors and states in arbitration proceedings under the auspices of the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA and AAA in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Constantine Partasides QC is founding partner of Three Crowns LLP, a specialist international arbitration firm with offices in London, Paris and Washington DC. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in approximately fifty ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, AAA and ICSID. In recent years, Constantine has specialised in arbitrations in the energy sector arising under contracts and investment treaties.