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Robert VOLTERRA |
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Volterra Fietta
8 Mortimer Street
Fitzroy Place
London, W1T 3JJ
UK
Tel: +44.20.7380.3898 (Direct)
Fax: +44.20.7387.7433
robert.volterra@volterrafietta.com
http://volterrafietta.com
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| Languages |
English (native); French, Spanish, Italian (fluent) |
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| Nationality |
Canada |
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| Bar Admission |
Barrister and Solicitor, Ontario - 1991
Solicitor-Advocate, England & Wales - 2001 |
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| Education |
Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro (Curso de Derecho Internacional - Aug. 1995); University of Cambridge (LLM (Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship) - 1992);Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (LLB (Dean's List) - 1989); University of Western Ontario (BA (International Relations) - 1987) |
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Academic
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Visiting Professor University College London (1998–); Visiting Senior Lecturer King’s College London (1998–); University of Paris X (1996-1999); University of Cambridge (1994-1996); and Osgoode Hall Law School Toronto (1992-1994) |
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Experience
as Arbitrator |
Sole arbitrator or member of the tribunal in numerous arbitration proceedings under the Rules of the ICSID, ICC, PCA, UNCITRAL, SCC and LCIA. |
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Experience
as Counsel |
Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICSID, ICC, LCIA, SCC and CIETAC (foreign investment, telecommunications, oil and gas, energy, mining);proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the PCA (public international law matters, including boundary disputes, expropriations, State responsibility, State immunities, international organizations, and treaty interpretation) and the WTO |
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Awards
Rendered |
• ICSID Case No. ARB/13/30, RREEF Infrastructure (G.P.) Limited and RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Two Lux S.à r.l. v. Kingdom of Spain, Decision on Jurisdiction, 6 June 2016 (full text ITA)
• SCC Case No. 088/2004, Eastern Sugar B.V. (Netherlands) v. The Czech Republic, Final Award, 12 Apr. 2007 (full text ITA)
• SCC Case No. 088/2004, Eastern Sugar B.V. (Netherlands) v. The Czech Republic, Partial Award, 27 Mar. 2007 (full text ITA) |
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Publications
Relating to
Arbitration |
• "Increasingly popular techniques for managing the costs of arbitration," in Financier Worldwide Magazine 2017 (with G. Mandelli)
• "India and Brazil: Recent Steps Toward Host State Control in the Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution Paradigm," 6(1) Indian J. Arb. L. 90 (2017)
• "Sovereign immunities and investor-state awards: specificities of enforcing awards based on investment treaties," in Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards: A Global Guide 67 (J. Fouret ed., Global Law and Business 2015) (with G. Coop, A. Nistal)
• "Dissenting and Separate Opinions in Investment Treaty Arbitration – Revisiting the Debate," 2014(1) Cahiers de l’Arbitrage / Paris J. Int’l Arb. 59
• "Guerilla Tactics at International Courts and Institutions," in Guerilla Tactics in International Arbitration 238 (G. Horvath and S. Wilske eds., Kluwer, 2013)
• "Memorandum on Global Investment Governance," publication of the workings of the University of Oxford Workshop on Global Investment Governance, 2012
• "Problems Arising from Submissions by States to the CLCS in Relation to Disputed Areas: A Selective Survey of State Practice to Date," in Selected Contemporary Issues in the Law of the Sea 273 (C. Symmons ed., Martinus Nijhoff, 2011)
• "International Law Commission Articles on State Responsibility and Investor-State Arbitration: Do Investors have Rights," 25(1) ICSID Rev. 218 (2010)
• "Provisional Measures (Interim Measures) and Investment Treaty Arbitration under ICSID and UNCITRAL: developments and trends," in Investment Treaty Law: Current Issues III (A. Bjorkland, I. Laird, S. Ripinsky eds. BIICL, 2009)
• "Recent Developments in Maritime Boundary Delimitations: reflections on certain aspects of the two UNCLOS cases," in Collected Papers, UN Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (2004)
• "A Brief Practitioner's View of Foreign Investment and International Environmental Standards: the Developing Custom of Non-State Practice," in International Investments and Protection of the Environment: the role of dispute resolution mechanisms 175 (The International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ed., Kluwer, 2001)
• "Recent Developments in Maritime Boundary Delimitations: reflections on certain aspects of the two UNCLOS cases," in Collected Papers of the ABLOS 2001 (UN Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea) |
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