Note: Only the main contributors are listed below.


  Hew R. Dundas

Email: Hew.Dundas@arbitration.fr
Country: Great Britain
Past:  President of the chartered institute of Arbitrators 2007
Current: International Arbitrator, Mediator and Expert Determiner 

Hew R. Dundas has spent 30 years in the Oil & Gas industry, including being Head of Legal, Company Secretary and Group Insurance Manager at Cairn Energy PLC, presently the UK’s 4th largest oil company (after Shell, BP and BG) and [approx] the 60th largest UK-quoted (ie FTSE) company, and is now a full-time International Arbitrator, Mediator and Expert Determiner in both Oil & Gas and general commercial disputes. Hew is a Panel Arbitrator in England, Scotland, Beijing, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, India and the USA and is a member of the LCIA, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and other leading arbitral institutions. He is also a Council Member of the newly-created International Commodity and Shipping Arbitration Service. He has made a significant contribution to the drafting of the Arbitration (Scotland) Bill 2009, now expected to be enacted, in some form, in 2010. He also lectures on International Petroleum Law and on International Dispute Resolution Law at the world-renowned Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Hew writes and publishes widely (including publishing in London, New York, Houston, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow and Almaty) on UK and international arbitration law and related topics; his website www.dundasarbitrator.com has more than 650,000 words of publications accessible free of charge.  In 2005 Hew was elected President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (approx. 11,500 members in 100+ countries) for calendar 2007; in that capacity he visited Beirut, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Stockholm, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Vienna, Hong Kong and most of the UK and new (for the CIArb) territory in Quito, Bogotá and La Paz, meeting CIArb members , colleague arbitral institutions and academic institutions, and Chief Justices, Ministers of Justice and other high-level figures. Hew is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Chinese-European Arbitration Centre (Hamburg) and Presidente Honorario, Centro International de Arbitraje e Meicación (Quito).


   Halim Gebeili

Email: Halim.Gebeili@arbitration.fr
Country: USA
Current: MS Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University

Halim Gebeili is a graduate from Duke University School of Law (LLM). He  holds a DESS in arbitration, litigation and ADR from Paris II University coupled with a JD from Saint Joseph University, Lebanon. Mr. Gebeili acquired three years of extensive legal experience in the Middle East where he intervened on many corporate and financial cross-border transactions. He is a member of the NY State Bar Association and the Beirut Bar Association.


  Djurdja Lazic

Email: Djurdja.Lazic@arbitration.fr
Country: USA
Current: Managing Editor of ILM (International Legal Materials), ILIB and Insights

Djurdja Lazic is the Managing Editor of International Legal Materials, Insights and International Law in Brief at the American Society of International Law. Before attending George Washington University Law School for her LL.M. in international law, she obtained her J.D. from Michigan State University and her bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College. She is licensed to practice in Michigan.


  Benoit Lebars

Email: Benoit.Lebars@arbitration.fr
Country: France
Current: Founding partner of Le Bars & Associés Paris

Benoit LE BARS is a Senior lecturer at the Cergy-Pontoise Law School and a partner at Le Bars & Associés in Paris. After his Master in corporate and business law (Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne law school) he was admitted as Doctor in private law in 1998 for his thesis works about “minority shareholders’ associations”. At the age of 36, he was awarded the prestigious Prix de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques for his co-authorship of the “Traité de Droit du commerce international” (“International Trade Law Treatise”). From 2002, he has worked as an international arbitrator and as counsel in corporate and financial law.
Appointed as Senior lecturer at the Cergy-Pontoise law school, he manages a postgraduate diploma in business law (Master II-DJCE) and gives lectures in company law, corporate governance, international commerce law, financial and banking. He also gives lectures in company law as a visiting Professor at the Vermont law school.
From 2008 till mid-2009, Benoit LE BARS was a partner at Hammonds. Currently, he is the founding partner of Le Bars & Associés in Paris,  a firm dedicated to international arbitration. He started his career as an assistant of Professor Yves GUYON, giving lectures in bankruptcy law and legal instruments at the Panthéon-Sorbonne law school. Meanwhile Benoit started to work for several business law firms such as Skadden & Arps, Hoche and Eversheds-Frères Cholmeley, and at Landwell & Associés (PWC law firm).
Benoit has acted as arbitrator and counsel in international arbitrations and has worked on several ICC arbitrations in relation to corporate law, finance, international contracts, international commercial law and has much experience in working on investment schemes in Africa (OHADA law issues). He is a member of the ICC Court, LCIA, IAI, AFA, CMAP (quid AAA). Benoit has also coauthored a book about OHADA law issues.
Additionally, Benoit serves French and European non listed and listed clients in corporate law and financial regulation matters. He is also General Secretary of the French Association for Corporate Governance (AFGE).
Benoit can conduct arbitration in French, English and Spanish and speaks also Russian.


Charbel Moarbes

Email: Charbel.Moarbes@arbitration.fr
Country: USA
Current: Attorney at Law

  Francisco Tedioli

Email: Francesco.Tedioli@arbitration.fr
Country: Italy
Current: Partner at Tedioli Law Firm

Francesco Tedioli is a research assistant in  Arbitration law at Parma University and a lawyer of Tedioli law firm specializing in corporations, foreign investment, banking and commercial litigation. The law firm serves local, regional and national clients for business and personal legal matters, from offices in Mantova (Italy) and focuses on representing creditors and lenders in bankruptcies and secured transactions, and on probate and estate litigation. Member of European Association of Attorneys (AEA) Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP), Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), Camera Civile di Mantova (CCM); Partner of Internet business law services (IBLS). From the academic year 2003/2004 he has collaborated with the Chair of Procedura civile, as voluntary assistant in Diritto dell'esecuzione civile at the University of Parma. He has covered an assignment for teaching civil and processual law, with an integrating contract for the academic year 2004/05 to 2005/2006, holding a course of lectures at Scuola di specializzazione in sanità animale, allevamento e produzioni zootecniche of Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria. He has collaborated with a number of important legal reviews where he has published various articles on civil law, corporate law, international law, arbitration and litigation. He is also co-author of Codice dell'esecuzione forzata, directed by Prof. Enzo Vullo and Commentario breve al Diritto della famiglia, directed by Prof. Alessio Zaccaria.
Business lawyer in Mantova – Italy .He has a PhD in Legal Professions from the University of Parma School of Law, and an LLB in Law also from the University of Parma.


Badr Zerhdoud

Email: Badr.Zerhdoud@arbitration
Country: Geneva/Morocco
Current: PHD candidate at Université de Genève

Badr Zerhdoud is a PHD candidate in Public International Law at Université de Genève. He was recently a visiting Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center and is currently undertaking a thesis on international arbitration with a special emphasis on Investor-State arbitration related to water issues. He has a law degree from the universities of Aix-en-Provence (France) and Maastricht (Netherlands). Previously, he was a Course Manager of the IHEID Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy, worked as a legal expert for the World Health Organization and the Intenational Labour Organization, and served as a consultant for various non governmental organizations. He is a member of the American Society of International law.