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Jan Paulsonn
Jan Paulsson

Principal Consultant, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris

Jan Paulsson is co-head of the firm’s international arbitration and public international law groups. He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale, and the University of Paris. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of international arbitrations. He has conducted cases under the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA, and AAA Rules, as well as before the International Court of Justice. He is President of the London Court of International Arbitration, the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, and the EBRD Administrative Tribunal; and is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Mr. Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami and is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He is a Profesor Honorario of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. He is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles, in particular the standard reference work ICC Arbitration (3rd edition 2000) which he co-authors with Messrs WL Craig and WW Park. His monograph Denial of Justice in International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Swedish.