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THE
“HOW”
AND THE
“WHY”
OF
INTERNATIONAL
DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
Swiss bank accounts and Nazi
persecution. Allegations of foreign
expropriation. Oil exploration.
Price adjustments for natural gas
imports. Power plant construction.
International loans. Multinational
joint ventures. Cross-border tax
liability. Insurance coverage
for mass tort claims. What
links such diverse topics
First, the use of arbitration
to resolve controversies in
each of these areas. Second,
Professor William W. Park who
has served as arbitrator in
cases arising from disputes
touching all of these matters.
In a world lacking any neutral supranational courts of
mandatory jurisdiction, arbitration provides a dispute resolution
mechanism that can enhance predictability and neutrality,
thereby promoting transnational economic cooperation.
Professor Park has spent much of his career exploring the “how” and
the “why” of international dispute resolution. His most recent book,
Arbitration of International Business Disputes, has just been published
by Oxford University Press. He is also the author of a casebook on
commercial arbitration, as well as treatises on forum selection, income
tax conventions and the International Chamber of Commerce.
After beginning his career in Paris with a practice related to international
tax and finance, Park returned to Boston to teach and to
direct the law school’s Center for Banking and Financial
Law. His work has focused increasingly on arbitration.
He has chaired arbitrations in French and English in
England, France, Switzerland and Finland, as well as in
the United States and Canada. Park has held visiting
academic appointments at Cambridge University,
Université de Dijon, University of Hong Kong, the
Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales
in Geneva and the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy. He is general editor of the Londonbased
journal Arbitration International, a
vice president of the London Court
of International Arbitration
and a member of the NAFTA
Financial Services Roster.
Park has sat on the Appeals
Tribunal for the International
Commission on Holocaust
Era Insurance Claims, and
served as Arbitrator on the
Claims Resolution Tribunal
for Dormant Accounts in
Switzerland. He was recently
elected to membership in
the International Council
for Commercial Arbitration
(ICCA), and is a past chair
of the ABA Committee on
International Commercial
Dispute Resolution.
20 | The Record | Fall 2007