About the Contributors

• Author: Barton Legum - Ethan A Berghoff - Theodore Edelman
• Pages: 10-20

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José I. Astigarr aga, a shareholder with the Mia mi-based law firm of Astigarraga

Davis, focuses his practice on inter national litigation and arbitration, represent-

ing multinational companies in internat ional business disputes. Described by

Chambers Globa l Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers as “a major figure for Latin

American litigation and arbitration [who] represents large U.S., European and

South America n corporations,” he has handled a var iety of internat ional disputes

in 30-plus year s of practice. Mr. Astigarrag a litigates cases in U.S. court s and arbi-

tral tribunals and oversees litigation abroad. He was one of the ten America ns

first appointed by the U.S. government to advise the NAFTA Commission on

internationa l arbitration and dispute resolution. He i s a vice presidentof the Lon-

don Court of International Arbitration. By appointment of the U.S. Department

of State, Mr. Astigarraga served as an expert at the Organization of American

States’ Sixth I nteramerican Conference on Pr ivate International Law. As a consul-

tant to the World Bank on legal reform issues, he coauthored An Assessment o f

Latin Americ an Insolvency Systems, published by the World Bank. He i s the chair of

the Americas’ I nitiative of the Institute for Transnat ional Arbitration and a mem-

ber of the Executive Council of the American Law Institute, publ ishers of the

Restatements of Law. The views ex pressed in his chapter are those of the authors

and do not necessari ly reflect the views of the f irm or its clients.

J. Tucker Barr is an associ ate with Arnall Golden Gre gory LLP.

Pieter H.F. Bekker holds the Chair in Inter national Law within t he University of

Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mi neral Law and Policy and is a pa rt-

ner in the International Arbitration Group at Steptoe & Johnson LLP i n Brussels,

Belgium. A member of the New York Bar, Professor Bek ker holds basic and doc-

toral degree s in international law f rom Leiden University, The Netherlands, a nd a

master of law s degree from Ha rvard Law Scho ol (Fulbright g rant). He served as a

staff lawyer for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (1992–1994) and subse-

quently was involved as counsel in both contentious and advisory proceed ings

before the ICJ, most recently as cou nsel to the Internationa l Fund for Agricultu ral

About the Contributors

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