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Nigel BLACKABY QC |
IAI Member |
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
700 13th Street, NW - 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-3960
USA
Tel: +1.202.777.4500
Fax: +1.202.777.4555
nigel.blackaby@freshfields.com
http://www.freshfields.com
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| Languages |
English (native); French, Spanish, Portuguese (fluent) |
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| Nationality |
UK |
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| Bar Admission |
Solicitor, England & Wales - 1993
Special Legal Consultant District of Columbia - 2009
Queen's Counsel - 2020 |
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| Education |
College of Law, Chester (1990); University of Exeter (LLB (European) - 1989); Université Aix-Marseille III (Diplôme universitaire en droit privé - 1988) |
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Academic
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Adjunct Professor of Law - American University of Washington College of Law, Washington DC |
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Experience
as Arbitrator |
Tribunal member in several international arbitration proceedings, under ICC, ICDR, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules. |
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Experience
as Counsel |
Numerous international arbitration proceedings under the Rules of LCIA, ICC, AAA, ICSID, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and Zurich Chamber of Commerce (ZHK) (financial services, oil & gas, water concessions, and contractual matters, with a particular focus on Latin America and investor-state disputes) |
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Publications
Relating to
Arbitration |
• Co-author of fourth, fifth and sixth editions of leading text, "Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration" (Oxford, 2015) [Spanish edition “Teoria y practica del Arbitraje Comercial Internacional” (Aranzadi, 2006) and Argentine edition (La Ley, 2007).])
• Co-author of Guide to ICSID Arbitration (Kluwer, 2010) (with L. Reed, J. Paulsson)
• Co-author and Co-editor, International Arbitration in Latin America (Kluwer, 2003)(co-edited with D. Lindsey and A. Spinillo)
• "Utilities, Government Regulations and Energy Investment Arbitrations" in "GAR The Guide to Energy Arbitrations" on (2017)
• "Practical Issues relating to the Use of Expert Evidence in Investment Arbitration" Vol. 31(3), ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, 1 Oct. 2016, (with A. Wilbraham) 655
• "• “Regulatory change in oil and gas arbitration: The Latin American Experience," The Leading Practitioners’ Guide to International Oil and Gas Arbitration (2015) (with C. Richard)
• "Consideraciones sobre la aplicación del principio Iura novit curia en el arbitraje comercial internacional" (with Ricardo Chirinos), (2013) 6 Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (ACDI) at 77 "Energy Investment Disputes in Latin America: A Historical Perspective" in "Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2013" (B. Nijhoff, 2015)
• "Witness Preparation – A Key to Effective Advocacy in International Arbitration," Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times, ICCA Congress Series No 15 at 118 (Kluwer 2011)
• "Amicus curiae: a panacea for legitimacy in Investment Arbitration? Perception and Reality" in "The Backlash against Investment Arbitration" (Kluwer, 2010) 253 (with C. Richard)
• "Direct and re-direct examination of the Witnesses" in "The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration" (Oceana, 2010)
• "ICSID Denunciation:a storm in a teacup?" in 2010(1) Cahiers de l’arbitrage / Paris J. Int'l Arb. 45
• "Arbitrabilidad de Diferencias no Contractuales" in El Arbitraje Comercial Internacional – Estudio de la Convención de Nueva York con motivo de su 50º aniversario" (Abeledo Perrot, 2008)
• "Alternativas de Reparación en el arbitraje internacional de inversiones: un debate entre la teoria y la practica," in Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (Universidad del Rosario), 2008 (with A.C. Garcia)
• "La importancia de la forma y del alcance de la decisión arbitral para su ejecución," in Arbitraje Internacional - Tensiones Actuales 171 (F. Mantilla-Serrano ed., Legis, 2007)
• "Investment Arbitration and Commercial Arbitration (or the Tale of the Dolphin and the Shark)" in Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration (Kluwer, 2006)
• "El arbitraje según los tratodos de inversión y los capítulos de inversión en los tratados de libre comercio," in El Contrato de Arbitraje 285 (E. Silva-Romero ed. 2005)
• "Investment Treaty Arbitration," in Bernstein's Handbook of Arbitration Practice (2003)(with L. Paradell)
• "Arbitration in Latin America: Was Carlos Calvo misunderstood?," in Who's Who Legal Commercial Arbitration 3 (2003)
• "Public Interest and Investment Treaty Arbitration," in Investment Treaties and Arbitration, ASA Special Series No. 19, at 145 (G. Kaufmann-Kohler and B. Stucki eds., 2002)
• " Arbitration and Brazil: A Foreign Perspective," 17 Arb. Int’l 129 (2001)
• "Commercial Arbitration in Latin America," Latin Law. Rev. 2001
• "La nueva legislación sobre arbitraje de Inglaterra," Jurisprudencia Argentina No. 6116, at 32 (1998)
• "The English Court's Assistance to Overseas Arbitration," 13 Arb. Int’l 431 (1997) |
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Other
Connections
with France |
Practised in Paris 2000-2008 |
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