Expedited International Arbitration Panel

Speakers - 

Alan M. Anderson, PhD, FCIArb, specializes in dispute resolution, particularly international arbitration, both as counsel and as an arbitrator. He received his Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Law (magna cum laude) from Cornell University, the United States. He received a Master of Laws, with distinction, specializing in international dispute resolution, from the University of London, England. He earned his PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, England. Dr Anderson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution and an accredited international mediator. A frequent presenter and writer, Dr Anderson is the secretary and a director of the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration (FICA), an international think-tank. He has participated in the work of UNCITRAL’s Working Groups II and III since 2015. Alan co-edited The Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: Reform, Replace or Status Quo?, published in 2020 by Kluwer Law International. He is the president of Alan Anderson Law Firm LLC based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and an associate tenant with Littleton Chambers in London, where he is a member of its international arbitration practice group.

Tariq Mahmood, PhD, is an offshore litigation barrister with multi-jurisdictional experience, specializing in international commercial dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and mediation), restructuring, insolvency litigation, contentious trust litigation, funds litigation, and insurance litigation. He has represented clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes in London, Asia and the Middle East. He is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Keele. Dr Mahmood has experience with all of the major arbitration rules and seats and appears as a barrister in arbitration hearings regularly. He speaks and publishes regularly on topics relating to international arbitration, mediation and issues of diversity in the legal profession. He is on the Approved Faculty List with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and provides training in International Arbitration, Domestic Arbitration and Mediation. Dr Mahmood sits as an arbitrator and mediator on a regular basis.

James Clanchy, FCIArb, is a full-time arbitrator in independent practice and an associate member of Six Pump Court chambers in London. He is an aspiring full member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) and served as the association’s Honorary Secretary from September 2021 until September 2022. As an arbitrator, he has taken appointments in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, seated in London, Dubai, Singapore, and Copenhagen, as a sole arbitrator and as a member of two- and three-member tribunals. He is a solicitor in England & Wales (admitted 1990, non-practising since 2019) and was an avocat at the Paris bar from 1994 to 2008. He spent twenty years as a commercial disputes lawyer in London and Paris, with Withers, Holman Fenwick Willan, and Stephenson Harwood, specializing in shipping, energy, and international trade. He was Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) for four years (2008-2012) and is a co-author of A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2014 (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015). Since July 2022, James has been co-editor (arbitration) of Lloyd’s Maritime Law Newsletter, writing and editing anonymized summaries of London maritime arbitration awards.

Can Eken, PhD, currently serves as an assistant professor at Durham Law School, England, a Central Asian Legal Research Fellow at the Tashkent State University of Law, Uzbekistan, and independent arbitration consultant. He is admitted to practise law as an attorney in California, Turkey, and as a solicitor in England and Wales. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, California and the Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg for Procedural Law. He has authored numerous publications on international commercial arbitration, investment law, third-party funding, and online dispute resolution. He is the recipient of the 2021 Postgraduate Research Output Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the faculty at Durham, Dr Eken was a practising lawyer in Turkey following a brief stint as a research assistant. He completed a PhD at the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. He also completed two LLM degrees, one from the London School of Economics and Political Science, England and another from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, where he also obtained a Bachelor’s in Law with high honours.

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