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Sébastien BESSON |
IAI Young Practitioner |
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Python & Peter
9, rue Massot
CH-1206 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: +41.22.702.15.15
Fax: +41.22.702.14.14
sbesson@pplex.ch
http://www.pplex.ch
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| Languages |
French (native); English (fluent) |
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| Nationality |
Switzerland |
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| Bar Admission |
Vaud - 1999
Geneva - 2000 |
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| Education |
University of Lausanne (Law degree - 1993; PhD - 1997); Columbia University (LLM - 2000) |
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Academic
Position |
Lecturer, Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) |
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Experience
as Arbitrator |
Chairman, Sole arbitrator or member of the tribunal in international and domestic arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC and the Swiss Rules |
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Experience
as Counsel |
Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), the Geneva (CCIG) and Zurich (ZHK) Chambers of Commerce, and under the Swiss Rules (mostly distribution and licensing, construction, sports related disputes, sales, joint ventures, agency and general contractual matters) |
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Publications
Relating to
Arbitration |
• L'arbitrage interne et international en Suisse : le nouveau CPC à l'aune du Concordat et du Chapitre 12 de la LDIP [Domestic and international arbitration in Switzerland, the new law on civil procedure from the perspective of the Swiss concordat and Chapt 12 SPIL] (forthcoming)
• Comparative Law of International Arbitration (Sweet $ Maxwell, 2007) (with J.F. Poudret)
• Droit comparé de l'arbitrage international [Comparative Law of International Arbitration] (Schulthess/Bruylant, 2002) (with J.F. Poudret)
• Arbitrage international et mesures provisoires - Etude de droit comparé [International Arbitration and Provisional Measures] (Schulthess, 1998)
Numerous articles on arbitration law and international civil procedure, including:
• "Extension de la convention d’arbitrage et élargissement de la procédure arbitrale à des tiers selon la jurisprudence du Tribunal fédéral suisse," Note following the Dec. 5, 2008 decision of the Swiss Fed. Trib., 2010(3) Paris J. Int’l Arb. 833
• "Nature et efficacité des décisions prises par l’arbitre en cours de procédure au sujet des frais de l’arbitrage [Nature and effectiveness of cost decisions made by arbitrators during the arbitration]," in Mélanges en l'honneur du Professeur François Dessemontet 297 (2008) (with J.F. Poudret)
• "Note on an Award rendrered under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration [Validity of a clause providing for 'Arbitration in Switzerland]," 25(4) ASA Bull. 769 (2007)
• "The Relationship between Court and Arbitral Jurisdiction: the Impact of the
new Art. 186 (1bis) PILS," in New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2007, at 57 (Ch. Müller ed., Schulthess, 2007)
• "Le recours contre la sentence arbitrale internationale selon la nouvelle LTF (aspects procéduraux)," 25(1) ASA Bull. 2 (2007)
• "Arbitration and Human Rights," 24(3) ASA Bull. 395 (2006)
• "Suisse: Etendue du contrôle par le juge d'une exception d'arbitrage: renonciation aux recours contre la sentence arbitrale: deux questions choisies de droit suisse de l'arbitrage international," 2005(4) Rev. arb. 1071
• "L'efficacité de la clause "arbitrage en Suisse" et de la clause blanche [The effectiveness of the Clause "Arbitration in Switzerland" and of the Arbitration Agreement with no indication as to the Seat of Arbitration], in Liber Amicorum Claude Reymond - Autour de l'arbitrage 11 (2004)
• "Réflexions sur la jurisprudence suisse récente rendue en matière d'arbitrage international [Reflections on the recent case-law of the Swiss Supreme Court in the field of international arbitration], 2003 ASA Bull. 463
• "The Utility of State Laws Regulating International Commercial Arbitration and Their Compatibility with the FAA," 2000 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 211
• "Du nouveau sur la reconnaissance aux Etats-Unis d’une sentence annulée à l’étranger [New Developments regarding Recognition in the United States of an Award annulled in a Foreign Country]," 2000 ASA Bull. 60
• "Le statut au sein de l'Espace judiciaire européen d'un jugement écartant une exception d'arbitrage et statuant sur le fond [The Status under the Brussels and Lugano Conventions of a Judgment disregarding an Arbitral Convention and deciding the Case on the Merit]," in Mélanges de procédure et d’arbitrage en l’honneur de Jean-François Poudret 329 (1999)
• "Une exception d'arbitrage peut-elle être invoquée en procédure de mainlevée provisoire ? [Can an Arbitration Agreement be Invoked in a Summary Procedure ("mainlevée provisoire")?]," 1999 ASA Bull. 2
• "La reconnaissance à l'étranger d'une sentence annulée dans son Etat d'origine – Réflexions à la suite de l'affaire Hilmarton [Recognition and Enforcement in a Foreign State of an Award annulled in its Country of Origin – Reflections after the Hilmarton Case]," 1998 ASA Bull. 498 (with L. Pittet)
• Note on the Swiss Federal Tribunal decision in Komplex v/Voest-Alpine Stahl, 1994 ASA Bull. 230 |
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