The Hidden World of
International Arbitration
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022
2.00 P.M. EST - 7.00 P.M. GMT
PRESENTED VIRTUALLY BY
PROFESSOR CAMPBELL MCLACHLAN KC
ARTHUR GOODHART VISITING PROFESSOR OF LEGAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Membre, Institut de Droit International
Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington
Law School
Campbell McLachlan is a Professor of law at Victoria University of Wellington and an Arbitrator at Bankside Chambers (Auckland), Essex Court Chambers (London.)
Professor McLachlan was called to the Bar in 1984, and appointed a QC 2007. He is an Associate Member of Bankside Chambers, Auckland and a Door Tenant at Essex Court Chambers, London. He specialises in Public and Private International Law, and international litigation and arbitration.
Educated at Victoria (LL B (Hons), 1984), and at the University of London (Ph D (1988)), he holds the Diploma cum laude of The Hague Academy of International Law (1985). Until his return to New Zealand in 2003, Campbell was in practice in London, where he was a partner in Herbert Smith. He led the firm’s International Law Practice Group, and conducted many international arbitrations and litigations, for sovereign states, corporations, international organisations, and regulatory bodies. Reported cases include: ex parte Pinochet (no 3), Banca Carige v. Banco Nacional de Cuba, Saab v. Saudi American Bank, and In re Roys Poyiadjis ex parte US Securities and Exchange Commission and Securities Commission v Midavia Rail Investments BVBA.
Campbell has conducted numerous international arbitrations under ICC, UNCITRAL and LME rules, and has represented or advised a number of sovereign states, including the Armenia, Chile, Cuba, Malawi, New Zealand, South Africa, Tuvalu and the United States of America. Since his return to New Zealand, Campbell has combined his research and teaching with practice in international arbitration and litigation.
He is President of the Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law and New Zealand Alternate Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration.
In his academic research, Campbell has published numerous articles in international journals, and engaged in international law reform through his work for the International Law Commission and the International Law Association. He has also contributed to law reform in New Zealand, including on the protection of the cultural heritage from cross-border trafficking, and the revision of the cross-border aspects of the High Court Rules.
He is a Specialist Editor of the 14th edition of Dicey Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws (Sweet & Maxwell, 2006), with special responsibility for the chapters on Arbitration and Foreign Awards and Foreign Currency Obligations. Dicey, which has been described by Lord Goff of Chieveley as “the prince of legal textbooks”, is the leading work on Private International Law in the Commonwealth.
Campbell’s next book (with Weiniger and Shore) is International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles (Oxford University Press, 2007). This work, which will be launched in London on 19 July 2007, is the first analytical work in its field. In 2008, he will give a Special Course at The Hague Academy of International Law on Parallel Proceedings in International Litigation.
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