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Antonov, Jaroslav Valerievich
Legal mechanisms of E-justice for Ensuring Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators in Light of International Practice

Jaroslav Valerievich Antonov is a practicing lawyer. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Constitutional Law of the North-west Institute of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

e-mail: reoverclock@gmail.com

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Bagnaru, Alina Mioara Cobuz
Liability of Arbitrators

Dr. Alina Mioara Cobuz Bagnaru - Attorney-at-law, PhD, Member of the Bucharest Bar, Founding Member of Cobuz si Asociatii, Arbitrator with the Bucharest Stock Exchange, FINBAN mediator, Member in European Court of Arbitration

e-mail: alina@cobuz.ro

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Bělohlávek, Alexander J.
Subjective and Objective Impartiality of Arbitrators and Appointing Authorities as a Part of Procedural Public Policy (Ordre Public) in Arbitration

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

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Dermendjiev, Ivaylo
Does EU Law Impact an Arbitrator’s Independence and Impartiality?

Ivaylo Dermendjiev is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience, founder of and senior partner in the law firm Simeonov and Dermendjiev Private Consult Ltd. He is extremely specialized in arbitration and litigation, corporate and trade law, and administrative law and process. Ivaylo Dermendjiev is an arbitrator in CAS and LCIA, as well as in the Arbitration court of Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has a Ph.D. in law.

e-mail: office@sd-legal.com

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Dobiáš, Petr
The Distinctive Features of Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators in Insurance Matters

Senior fellow at Charles University in Prague, Law Faculty, Chair of Commercial Law. His research and teaching activities are mainly focused on European  Private International Law (Rome I, Rome II and Brussels I), International Commercial Law (International Insurance Law) and International Arbitration (Investment and Commodity Arbitration). The author is a corresponding member of the Project Group "Restatement of Europena Insurance Contract Law."

e-mail: dobias@prf.cuni.cz

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Fonseca, Elena Zucconi Galli
The Impartiality of Arbitrators in the Italian System considering the Code of Civil Procedure and Arbitration Institutional Rules

Elena Zucconi Galli Fonseca is a full professor of Civil Procedural Law. She teaches Civil Procedural Law and International and Domestic Arbitration Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, School of Law. She has written more than seventy books, articles and essays. Her research interests include arbitration, with particular reference to the arbitral convention, arbitration and company law, arbitral award; res iudicata, objective and subjective limits, connections between rights and collateral estoppel. Among her books are La convenzione arbitrale rituale nei confronti dei terzi (Arbitral convention and third person) Milan, 2006 and Pregiudizialità e rinvio. Contributo allo studio dei limiti soggettivi dell’accertamento (Contribute to doctrine of res judicata and third person), Bologna, 2011. She is a member of the Italian Association of Civil Procedure Law, and of the International Association of Procedural Law. She also practices civil and commercial law in Bologna. Her address is the: Università di Bologna, Scuola di giurisprudenza, via Zamboni n. 22, Bologna, Italy.

e-mail: elena.zucconigallifonseca@unibo.it.

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Havlíček, Jan
The Partiality of Arbitrators

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

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Jelonek-Jarco, Barbara
The Influence of Violation of the Independence and Impartiality Rules on the Enforceability and Effectiveness of the Arbitral Award

Dr. Barbara Jelonek-Jarco is an attorney at law and partner at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas Kos Gaertner, coordinating the work of the real estate department. She has participated in numerous court and arbitration proceedings for institutional clients. She also focuses her practice on such fields as company law and private commercial law. Dr. Jelonek-Jarco is the author of numerous articles, commentaries, didactic publications and monographs on civil and constitutional law.

Email: barbara.jelonek@kkg.pl

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Klee, Lukáš
Construction Dispute Boards

Lukáš Klee – An expert on International Construction Law and FIDIC sample forms of contract, Lukáš currently works for a large construction company in central Europe. When away from the office, he lectures on International Construction Law at the Charles University Faculty of Law in Prague. As an extension of his teaching duties, Lukáš also trains lawyers at the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic. Lukáš regularly publishes articles in the Czech Republic and abroad and is the author of three books related to International Construction Law.

e-mail: klee@email.cz

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Nový, Daniel
Construction Dispute Boards

Daniel Nový – Holds law degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of West Bohemia and an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Daniel works as a transactional lawyer for a large, international public utility company in Prague, the Czech Republic. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Central European and Euroasian Law Initiative (CEELI) Institute.

e-mail: novy.daniel@gmail.com

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Patti, Salvatore
Application of the Reasonableness Standard in Continental Courts and Arbitral Tribunals

Prof. Salvatore Patti has taught at the University of Sassari, Italy (1978-1986), the University of Trieste, Italy (1986-1995) as well as the Universities of Zurich, Switzerland and Freiburg, Germany. Since 1995 he has been a full Professor of Private Law at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome, Italy. From 2005 to 2007 he taught a course in Civil Law focused on contracts for work and labor at the University “Bocconi” in Milan, Italy.

He has conducted periods of research in Munich, London and Stanford with scholarships provided by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the DAAD, the British Academy and the American Fulbright Commission.

Besides his activities in his law firm with offices in Rome, Milan and Munich, he is editor or co-editor of various legal journals.

studiopatti@iol.it

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Rasia, Carlo
The Impartiality of Arbitrators in the Italian System considering the Code of Civil Procedure and Arbitration Institutional Rules

Carlo Rasia is a researcher of Civil Procedural Law and a professor of European Procedural Law at the School of Law of the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna. His main research areas are focused on European Procedural Law and on National and International Arbitration. Among his works is the book Tutela giudiziale europea e arbitrato (European judicial protection and arbitration), Bologna, 2010. He participated in national and international research projects, as the European Commission project ‘European civil procedure and e-Justice implementation within the European Union’ (2010-2011). He is a member of the Italian Association of Civil Procedure Law. Since 2004 he has also practiced civil and commercial law in Bologna. His address is: Università di Bologna, Scuola di giurisprudenza, via Zamboni n. 22, Bologna, Italy.

e-mail: carlo.rasia@unibo.it.

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Sippel, Harald
Double requirement or double standard? A comparison of arbitrators’ independence and impartiality with that of state court judges in Austria and Germany

Harald Sippel works for the Viennese law firm Willheim Müller where he acts as counsel and arbitrator in international ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings. Harald obtained a Master in Law and PhD in law (summa cum laude) degree from the University Linz (Austria), as well as an MBA degree from Seoul National University (Korea) and a postgraduate diploma in arbitration from Queen Mary, University of London (U.K.). Harald is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

e-mail: h.sippel@wmlaw.at

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Svatoš, Martin
Independence and impartiality of arbitrators and mediators – The Castor and Pollux of the ADR world?

Dr. Martin Svatoš is a mediator and arbitrator based in Prague, Czech Republic. He has gained experience around the globe, having studied at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, at Charles University in Prague and at Cornell University. He has worked at the ICC and at the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan. He has participated in several international cases both in mediation and arbitration, especially in the central and eastern European region. He is a lecturer at the Banking Institute/College of Banking in Prague and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino.

e-mail: svatosmartin@forarb.com

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Vassilakakis, Evangelos
The Challenge of Arbitrators and the Impact on the Functioning of Arbitral Tribunals

Evangelos Vassilakakis - professor of Private International Law, Faculty of Law, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D. Paris-Sorbonne I). Professor Vassilakakis is an attorney admitted before the Supreme Court of Greece and an arbitrator in the ICAC, VIAC, SCCI, CCIR and PAMA. He has served as a judge at the Special Supreme Court of Greece (2010-2011) in his capacity of Professor – Director of the Koufa Foundation for International Law and Human Rights.

e-mail: vassilakakis@the.forthnet.gr; evasilak@hotmail.com

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Zahradníková, Radka
Challenge procedure in institutional and ad hoc arbitration under the new regulations in the revised UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

JUDr. Ing. Radka Zahradníková Ph.D LL.M, graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic and simultaneously from the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics. In 2003, she successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University in Bayreuth, and obtained her LL.M title. In 2006, she was awarded a Ph.D title after successfully defending her dissertation on the topic of Institutional arbitration. Since 2007, she has been a judge specializing in commercial and administrative disputes and disputes with a foreign element. She is also an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia, specializing in civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution. She is the author of at least 30 journal papers, 2 monographs, and co-author other 3 monographs and about 15 articles in yearbooks from international conferences. She was also a member of the working group of the Ministry of Justice that amended the Czech law on arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards. She has lectured at foreign universities, in such as Limoges, Toulouse and Thessaloniki.

e-mail: radka.zahradnik@gmail.com

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Zawadzka, Julita
The Influence of Violation of the Independence and Impartiality Rules on the Enforceability and Effectiveness of the Arbitral Award

Dr. Julita Zawadzka is an attorney at law at the Polish law firm of KKG Kubas Kos Gaertner. She has appeared in numerous court proceedings in the scope of civil law. She also is experienced in commercial law, in which she represents companies, among others, from the construction, energy, financial, and trade sectors. Dr. Zawadzka is the author of numerous articles, commentaries, didactic publications and monographs on civil and constitutional law.

Email: julita.zawadzka@kkg.pl

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