| Martin Hunter was for 27 years a partner in the firm formerly known as Freshfields. On retiring from the firm in 1994 he became a barrister and joined Essex Court Chambers, where he continues to practise actively in the field of international arbitration, both in relation to commercial and investment treaty disputes. He has served as counsel or arbitrator in cases held under the rules of most of the world’s best-known arbitral institutions and arbitration centres. These include the AAA, CAS/TAS, CDP, Cietac, ICC, ICDR, JCAA, LCIA, LMAA, Nafta, NAI, SCC and SIAC, as well as arbitrations under the Uncitral Arbitration Rules and other types of ad hoc arbitration. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a chartered arbitrator. He is a member of the arbitration panels of many other arbitral institutions around the world. Most of the arbitrations in which Prof Hunter has been involved in recent years remain subject to confidentiality restrictions, but those in the public domain include Mexico v USA (Nafta, Chapter 20, “Cross-border trucking services”); S D Myers v Canada (Nafta, Chapter 11); and William Nagel v Czech Republic (Czech/UK BIT). He is an arbitrator on the Iraq Arbitration Panel www.eyidro.com.Prof Hunter has also represented parties in mediations and other ADR procedures, and has served as a mediator or conciliator in several substantial international disputes. In 1995 he was appointed to the newly established chair of international dispute resolution at Nottingham Trent University. In 2003 he became a visiting professor at King’s College London, where he teaches international arbitration to postgraduate students taking London University’s LLM courses. Since 1992 he has been honorary dean of postgraduate studies, and a lecturer, at The TMC Asser Institute in The Hague, and for many years he has been an honorary Fellow at the faculty of law at Edinburgh University. He was a visiting professor at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1999, and a founding member (in 2002) of the faculty for the international arbitration programme at Cologne University’s annual summer academy. Prof Hunter has also been actively involved in the administration and development of a number of organizations and institutions concerned with international arbitration, including the AAA, the IBA, the ICC’s Court, the LCIA’s Court and Uncitral’s working group on international arbitration. He has been a member of the council of ICCA since 1990. In the 1990s he was deputy chairman of the UK government’s committee on arbitration law reform, which was responsible for steering the 1996 English arbitration legislation through parliament. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre, and president of the Milan Club of Arbitrators for 2005 to 2006. Martin Hunter has written extensively on international arbitration over the last 25 years. His books include Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration (with Alan Redfern), currently in its 4th edition; The English Arbitration Act 1996: Text and Notes (with Toby Landau); the first edition of The Freshfields’ Guide to Arbitration and ADR Clauses in International Contracts (with Alan Redfern, Jan Paulsson and Nigel Rawding); the arbitration title of Halsbury’s Laws (with Ben Pilling); and the arbitration and ADR title of Butterworths Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (with Phillip Croall). |
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