Guests
The IDR LL.M. is proud to boast a multitude of distinguished guests who each year share their experience and expertise with the class.
These lecturers enrich the program not only through the diversity of their fields of work and research, but also through the variety of their respective jurisdictions and unique legal lives lived.
Exposure to any of these excellent guest lecturers is guaranteed to be a worthwhile experience. Students may be offered a novel perspective, deepen their legal understanding or receive invaluable career advice.
Our Guest Lecturers
Guest lecturers who last visited in 2023
Alice Fremuth-Wolf
on "VIAC arbitration: Specific features of arbitration under VIAC Rules and Vienna as seat of arbitration"
Dr. Anke C. Sessler
on "Ensuring Efficient Arbitral Proceedings: the Practitioner’s Toolbox"
Prof. Dr. Christian Borris
on "Influence of Anglo-Saxon Procedure in International Arbitration"
Christopher Lau
on "The Tales of the Tribunal: An Arbitrator’s Perspective on the Constitution of the Tribunal and Decision-making"
Dr. David Quinke
on "JV Disputes in International Arbitration"
Deborah Keller
on "Dispute Resolution Made in Germany"
Dr. Eveli Lume
on "Specific Features of Arbitration and the International Dispute Resolution market in Baltic Countries"
Prof. Dr. Franco Ferrari
on "International Uniform Law"
Prof. George A. Bermann
on "Twilight Issues in Arbitration"
Prof. Dr. Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler
on "Enforcement and annulment of Arbitral Awards under Investment Treaties"
Dr. Jan Frohloff
on "Arbitration in Space Disputes"
Dr. Kilian Bälz
on "Specific Features of Arbitration and the International Dispute Resolution Market in MENA"
Korinna von Trotha
on "Swiss Arbitration"
Prof. Dr. Moti Mordehai Mironi
on "Hybrid or mixed-mode dispute resolution processes"
Müge Bakırcıoğlu, LL.M and Axel Benjamin Herzberg, LL.M.
on "The Curious Life of a Real-Life International Commercial Dispute"
Dr. Ole Jensen
on "Arbitral Secretaries"
Dr. Patricia Nacimiento and Jacky Lui
on "IDR in the Energy Sector"
Patryk Kulig
on "Financing International Disputes"
Dr. Piotr Wilinski, LL.M.
on "Arbitration and Climate-related Disputes"
Prof. Dr. Rolf Trittmann
on "Fact-Finding Process in International Arbitration"
Salomé Lemasson
on "International Investigations and Introduction to White Collar Matters in International Context"
Prof. Dr. Siegfried H. Elsing
on "IP Law and Arbitration"
Dr. Sven Asmussen, LL.M.
on "International Enforcement of Judgments"
Dr. Tom Christopher Pröstler, LL.M. (Sydney)
on "Dispute Resolution: Made in Germany"
Dr. Wolf H. von Bernuth
on "Arbitration of Cross-Border M&A Disputes"
Guest lecturers who last visited in 2022
Alexander Demuth
on "A Guide to Damages in International Arbitration"
Dr. Antonida Netzer
on "Sports arbitration and DIS"
Prof. Dr. Marcin M. Menkes
on "Economic Sanctions and International Law"
Maria Irene Perruccio Lourie
on "The perspective of an in-house counsel"
Prof Dr. Maxi Scherer
on "Artificial Intelligence and International Arbitration"
Dr. Olga Hamama
on "Sports arbitration and CAS"
Guest lecturers who last visited in 2021
Agnieszka Ason
on "Gas Price Review Disputes"
Cesar Pereira, FCIArb
on "Specific features of arbitration and the international dispute resolution market in Latin America"
Dr. Francesca Mazza
on "Trust and Impartiality & Independence in International Arbitration"
Prof. Dr. Fabricio Polido
on "The 2019 Hague Convention and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and the Operation of Global Commercial Court"
Sherlin Tung
on "Specific featues of Arbitration and the International Dispute Resolution market in Hong Kong"
Guest lecturers who last visited in 2019
Claire de Tassigny Schütze
on "Investor-State Arbitration - Practice and Procedure"
Prof. Dr. Klaus Sachs
on "Efficiency in Arbitration: Tools and Techniques for Effective Proceedings"
Prof. Dr. Richard Kreindler
on "Allegations and Suspicions of Corruption - Challenges for the International Arbitral Tribunal"
Silke Elrifai
on "Arbitration and Blockchain"
Dr. Ula Cartwright-Finch
on "Psychology of Decision-Making" and "Psychology of the Advocate"
Guest lecturers who last visited in 2018 and earlier
Dr. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz
on "Declaratory Relief in International Arbitration"
Prof. Dr. Christian Duve
on "When is technology going to replace arbitration?”
Daniele Boccucci
on "The Court of Arbitration for Sport: Peculiarities of CAS arbitration and the Additional and Undervalued Pros of Mediation vs the Limits of Mediation in Sport-Related Disputes
Gary Born
on "TTIP and the Future of International Investment Arbitration"
Prof. Dr. Hans van Houtte
on "The Iran - United States Claims Tribunal: Its Contribution to International Law"
Prof. Dr. Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof
on "International Arbitration: Challenges, Responsibilities and Opportunities”
John Beechey CBE
on "Good Things Take Time – Quality vs. Efficiency in Arbitration”
Dr. Markus Wirth
on "Alternatives to established ‘Best Practices’”
*Please note that this is a list of past lecturers with no guarantee of a future visit.