Univ. Professor, Dr.iur., Mgr., Dipl. Ing. oec/MB, Dr.h.c. Lawyer admitted and practising in Prague/CZE (Branch N.J./US), Senior Partner of the Law Offices Bělohlávek, Dept. of Law, Faculty of Economics, Ostrava, CZE, Dept. of Int. and European Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, CZE (visiting), Chairman of the Commission on Arbitration ICC National Committee CZE, Arbitrator in Prague, Vienna, Kiev etc. Member of ASA, DIS, Austrian Arb. Association. The President of the WJA – the World Jurist Association, Washington D.C./USA.
e-mail: office@ablegal.cz
JUDr. Filip Černý (*1982) works as a legal trainee in the Law Office of Bělohlávek, Prague, Czech Republic and pursues his PhD studies in international law at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he also obtained his Juris Utrisque Doctor degree in 2010. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Masaryk University (Brno) in 2007, absolved exchange programme at the Law Faculty of Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2006. Field of Interest: arbitration and public international law, with a specific focus on the investment arbitration.
e-mail: filip.cerny@ablegal.cz
Dr. Carmen Adriana Gheorghe, Ph.D. senior lecturer at Transylvania
e-mail: carmenghe2003@yahoo.com
The author is an arbitrator for international and inland disputes, a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, an expert in the Center for Economic and Law Studies of Masaryk University for the International Trade module, and a member of a number of international arbitration institutions (profile: www.janhavlicek.com).
e-mail: info@janhavlicek.com
JUDr. Miluše Hrnčiříková, Ph.D., lecturer at the Department of Commercial Law and International Private Law, Faculty of Law od Palacký University in Olomouc.
e-mail: miluse.hrncirikova@upol.cz
Jesse Kennedy is an Australian legal practitioner, a former Associate to the Hon. Justice Gummow AC of the High Court of Australia and currently an Associate at Norton Rose in Sydney. He specialises in international arbitration with a focus on investment treaty law.
e-mail: jesse.kennedy@nortonrose.com
Dominik Moškvan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He holds Master’s degrees from Tilburg Law School and Masaryk University. His research interests lie in the area of European Union internal market law, external relations of the EU and international investment law and arbitration.
e-mail: dominik.moskvan@ua.ac.be
Nikolay Natov, Professor of PIL at the Faculty of Law, The St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria; Arbitrator and conciliator for Bulgaria at the ICSID; from 1993 to 2007 – arbitrator at CA/BCCI; since 2008 – Head International Arbitration Court of Legal Interaction Alliance (Sofia, Bulgaria); ICC ad hoc arbitrator – 3 cases; author of 4 books, over 100 articles on various aspects of private international law (in Bulgarian and English).
e-mail: natov.nikolay@gmail.com
Daniela Nováčková is an associate professor at the Faculty of Management of Comenius University in Bratislava and a Coordinator of the German Programme. In her academic work she has focused on European Economic Integration and Bilateral Investment Treaties. She has experience in approximation of European Law as a former expert of the Ministry of Finance of the
e-mail: daniela.novackova@fm.uniba.sk
Leonid Shmatenko (Dipl.-iur., Heinrich-Heine-University ofDüsseldorf) is Junior Fellow and Doctoral candidate at the Chairof German and Foreign Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. The author would like to thank Mehrdad Payandeh for the very useful feedback on this article.
e-mail: leonid.shmatenko@uni-duesseldorf.de
Veronika Vrbová is a PhD. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University, Slovakia where she deals with the area of European Insolvency Law. She studied at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she earned a Master’s degree and a Juris Doctor degree. She also studied International Business law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where she earned a Master’s degree.
e-mail: vrbova.v@gmail.com
