Master Programme in Investment Treaty Arbitration Seminar: Twilight Issues in International Arbitration

Professor Bermann is the director of the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School and a Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law. Professor Bermann is a world-renowned authority on comparative law, EU law, international trade contracts, WTO dispute resolution, and transnational litigation and arbitration. 

For more than four decades, he has been an active international arbitrator in commercial and investment disputes in all sectors, including general commercial contract, construction, intellectual property, energy, oil and gas, competition law, insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, distributorship and franchising, transportation, and employment. He also serves regularly as an expert witness before international arbitral tribunals as well as before courts in arbitral-related cases.