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Click here to enlarge.   John P. GAFFNEY IAI Young Practitioner   
King & Spalding
65 - 67 avenue des Champs Elysées
75008 Paris
Tel: +33.1.73.00.39.16
Fax: +33.1.73.00.39.59
jgaffney@kslaw.com
http://www.kslaw.com

 
 
Languages   English (native); French (good working knowledge); Italian (knowledge)
   
Nationality   Ireland
   
Bar Admission   Solicitor, Republic of Ireland - 1994
Solicitor, England & Wales - 2007
   
Education   National University of Ireland, Cork(BCL - 1990; LLB - 1991); University of San Diego at Dublin University (Diploma, Dublin Institute in International & Comparative Law - Summer 1990); University of Amsterdam (LLM in EU & International Trade Law - 1998); National University of Ireland, Dublin (Diploma in International Arbitration - 2002)
   
Experience  
as Arbitrator  
Member of the tribunal in WIPO disputes; Administrative secretary in proceedings before the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
   
Experience  
as Counsel  
Several domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the Rules of the LCIA (oil & gas, construction, mergers & acquisitions, and agency matters)
   
Publications  
Relating to  
Arbitration  
• "Non Party Autonomy: Displacing the Negative Effect of the Principle of 'Competence-Competence' in England?," 29(1) J. Int'l Arb. 107 (2012)

• Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: Wälde’s Defence of ‘Specialisation’ in the Interpretation of Investment Treaties, in A Liber Amicorum: Thomas Wälde - Law Beyond Conventional Thought 55 (J. Werner and A. Ali eds., CMP Publishing, 2009)

• "The New York Convention: A Basis For The Enforcement By National Courts Of A Justiciable Liberty Of Decision Of The Arbitral Tribunal," in The New York Convention: 50 Years Of Experience, Mealey's Executive Summary (Oct. 2008)

• "Precedents in the United Nations Compensation Commission," 5(3) TDM (May 2008)

• "The 'Effective Ordinary Meaning' of BITs and the Jurisdiction of Treaty-Based Tribunals to Hear Contract Claims," 8(1) J. World Inv. 5 (Mar. 2007)(with J. L. Loftis)

• "Jurisdiction ratione temporis of ICSID Tribunals: Lucchetti and Jan De Nul considered," 3(5) Transnational Dispute Management (2006)

• "Immunity of arbitrators from suit," IBA Committee D Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 1, at 26 (Feb. 2006)(with P. Griffin)

• "European Community Law and International Arbitration: A recent OGEMID discussion," Transnational Dispute Management, Vol. 2, No. 5 (Nov. 2005)

• "Salini v. Jordan - An Important Contribution To ICSID Jurisprudence on Jurisdictional Issues," 20(4) Int'l Arb. Rep. 35 (2005)

• "Case Summary - Salini Costruttori S.p.A. and Italstrade S.p.A. -v- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (ICSID Case No. ARB/02/13)," Transnational Dispute Management, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 2005)

• "Ireland- Scope of arbitration clause," 9(2) Arb. $ ADR 62 (2004)

• "The Group of Companies Doctrine and the Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement," 19(6) Int'l Arb. Rep. 47 (2004)

• "Confidentiality in International Arbitration: A Recent English Decision," 18(5) Int'l Arb. Rep. 18 (2003)

• "Ex Parte Measures in International Arbitration," 17(11) Int'l Arb. Rep. 39 (2002)

• "Evidentiary privileges in international arbitration – Ireland," 7(2) Arb. $ ADR 36 (2002)

• "The Bay Hotel Case: Accommodating the Parties’ Wishes," 17(1) Int'l Arb. Rep. 31 (2002)(with D. Rosenblum)

• "International, Foreign and Domestic Arbitrations and the Granting of Interim Relief in Ireland’, 16(9) Int'l Arb. Rep. 37 (2001)(with O. O’Sullivan)

• "Enforcement of Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses’, 6(2) Arb. $ ADR 18 (2001) (with O. O’Sullivan)

• "Introduction to the Arbitration (International Commercial) Act, 1998," 6(1) Arb. $ ADR 8 (2001)

• "The European Community Doctrine of Direct Effect and Arbitration: N’er the Twain Shall Meet?," 16(4) Int'l Arb. Rep. 84 (2001) (with N. Shelkoplyas)

• "Due Process in the United Nations Compensation Commission," 15(10) Int'l Arb. Rep/ 40 (2000)

• "Domain Dispute Resolution," 5(2) Arb. $ ADR 9 (Sept. 2000)

• "Ireland’s International Commercial Arbitration Act," 15(3) Int'l Arb. Rep. 35 (2000)

• "Precedent in the United Nations Compensation Commission," 14(12) Int'l Arb. Rep. 27 (1999)

• "The United Nations Compensation Commission: A Structural and Procedural Overview," 65(3) Arbitration 212 (1999)

• "Due Process in the WTO: the Need for Procedural Justice in the Dispute Settlement System," 14(4) Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1173 (1999) (Special Edition dedicated to the World Trade Organization)

• "The GATT and the GATS: Should they be Mutually Exclusive Agreements?," 12(1) Leiden J. Int'l L. 135 (1999)

• "The Review of Corporate Claims by the United Nations Compensation Commission," 6(3) Com. L. Practitioner 80 (1999)
   

 
   
 
 
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