Azar Aliyev
Azar Aliyev is coordinator of KEEL - Kiel Center for Eurasian Economic Law at the Institute of East European Law of the University of Kiel. Mr. Aliyev has studied law in Azerbaijan and Germany. He has written a comparative PhD-thesis on the law of concession contracts in Russia and Kazakhstan. In the framework of the project “The Law of international trade in the region of Central Asian and the Caucasus” Mr. Aliyev have being worked extensively with the sales law of the countries of the region Central Asia and the Caucasus in general and the application of the CISG in particular. In his capacity as coordinator of KEEL Mr. Aliyev has organized several joint UNCITRAL – KEEL conferences and capacity building seminars on international sales law and international commercial arbitration in Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan. He teaches courses on comparative contract law at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and on international commercial arbitration at the University of Kiel.

Alexander J Belohlávek
Professor of International Law and professor of economics. Dept. of Law, Faculty of Economics VŠB Technical University Ostrava / Czech Republic; Dept. of International Law WSM University Warsaw, Poland and visiting professor at the dept. of International and EU-Law of the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. President of the WJA – World Jurist Association, Washington D.C., USA. Attorney-at-Law. Arbitrator – Member of the ICC Int. Court of Arbitration Paris, Member of the Int. Advisory Committee of the VIAC Vienna, Arbitrator with the permanent arbitral institutions in Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Vilnius, Moscow, Minsk, Kijev, Ljubljana, Sofia, Almaty, Kuala Lumpur etc. Arbitrator pursuant UNCITRAL Rules. Specialized in International Private Law, International Law, International Trade Law, International Arbitration, Commercial Law. Author of more than 400 writings, incl. approx. 100 books (as sole author, co-author, or as editor) published in English, Czech, Russian, German, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, French. Since the past 25 years attending as speaker more than 200 conferences and congresses.

Christine Chappuis
Christine Chappuis is a professor at and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva where she teaches contract law with a special focus on international harmonisation, tort law and methodology. Her publications cover those fields. She was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 1982, after graduating from the University of Geneva. She is currently member of the Working Group for the preparation of the 4th edition of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (long term contracts) and has also taken part in the 3d edition.

Toni Deskoski
Dr. sc. Toni Deskoski is Professor of Private International Law and International Arbitration Law at the University “SS Kiril and Metodij”, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia since 2005. He obtained PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” in Skopje in 2005. PhD thesis: “Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards”. Prof Deskoski is head of the Department of Private International Law since 2010. He is Vice-president of the Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of Macedonia. He served as a party appointed arbitrator in arbitral proceedings under ICC Arbitration rules, and he was appointed as arbitrator or President of arbitral tribunal under the rules of Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of Macedonia. His fields of specific expertise are: International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, Conflict of Laws. Prof. Deskoski was advisor of the Macedonian Government in the proceedings against Greece before ICJ in the case concerning the Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995. Prof. Deskoski is the Head Coach of the team of the University “SS Kiril and Metodij” at the William C. Vis Moot since 2009.

Milena Đorđević
Milena Djordjević is a Vice-Dean for International Cooperation and an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law where she teaches International Commercial Law, International Commercial Arbitration, International Private Law, EU Trade Policy and Legal English. She holds a LL.B. (U. Belgrade), LL.M. (U. Pittsburgh), and a Dr. iur. (U. Belgrade). She also coached Belgrade moot team for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for the past thirteen years. Previously, she served as Legal Consultant at USAID/ WTO Accession Project for former Yugoslavia, was a national delegate at the GIZ Open Regional Fund's project on promotion of the CISG and arbitration in Southeast Europe and a Visiting Professor at University of Pittsburgh where she taught a course on International Commercial Arbitration. She is a member of the Board of Serbian Arbitration Association and Serbian Association of Commercial Lawyers. As an arbitrator she took part in 17 cases so far under the rules of FTCA, VIAC and in ad hoc arbitrations. She also regularly acts as an expert in arbitration proceedings on Serbian (former Yugoslav) contract law. She is listed on Global Arbitration Review Who is Who in International Commercial Arbitration for 2016. Ms. Djordjević also does consulting work for domestic companies, institutions and international organizations. Ms. Djordjević has published extensively on the CISG, arbitration, WTO law and EU trade law, and is one of the contributors to the latest commentary on the CISG edited by Stefan Kröll, Loukas Mistelis and Pilar Perales Viscasillas. Ms. Djordjević’s publications also include a monograph – Commercial and Economic Law of Serbia co-authored with Prof. Mirko Vasiljević and published by Kluwer Law International in the International Encyclopedia of Laws series.

Cyril Emery
Cyril Emery is a Legal Officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he is also the Librarian for the UNCITRAL Law Library. He is responsible for promoting the adoption and uniform interpretation of UNCITRAL texts related to sale of goods. Since 2012, he has taught an annual course on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law. Mr. Emery holds degrees from Columbia University (BA), the Catholic University of America (MSLS) and Indiana University (JD), and he is licensed to practice law in Maryland. He joined the UN Secretariat in New York in 2008 and the UNCITRAL Secretariat in 2010. Previously, he was a research librarian at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC; a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge; and a Fulbright Fellow to the European Union.

José Angelo Estrella Faria
José Angelo Estrella Faria is the Secretary-General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). At the time of his appointment, in 2008, he was a Senior Legal Officer with the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), in Vienna, where he had worked since February 1996. Prior to his work with UNCITRAL, Mr. Faria had served at the General Legal Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs, in New York, from 1992 to 1996. Before joining the UN, Mr. Faria had worked as an attorney in private practice in Brazil specialised in commercial and trade law matters. Mr. Faria graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and holds a Master on European Law from the Europa Institut der Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken, Germany).

Harry M. Flechtner
Harry M. Flechtner is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is a six-time winner of the University’s Excellence-in-Teaching Award and a recipient of the University Chancellor’s Teaching Award. His publications on international commercial law include the 4th edition (2009) of John Honnold’s Uniform Law for International Sales under the 1980 United Nations Convention, which Professor Flechtner edited and updated. He serves as a National Correspondent for the United States at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and he has been cited by the Solicitor General of the United States as "one of the leading academic authorities on the [United Nations Sales] Convention.” He is a graduate of Harvard College; he received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in literature from Harvard University.

Judit Glavanits
Dr. jur. Judit GLAVANITS, PhD. is an associate professor at the Széchenyi István University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Department of International Public and Private Law. She graduated on ELTE University, and is the lecturer of international law subjects since 2005. Her research field is international sales law, international financial law, mediation and game theory. She is one of the leaders of the Research Group “Comparative Analysis of Sales Law” at Győr, Hungary. She is taking part of teaching the following subjects: International private law, International Financial Law, and she is the leading lecturer of mediation and arbitration courses at the Faculty.

Grégoire Geissbühler
Grégoire Geissbühler is a research and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva in the law of obligations. He obtained both his bachelor of laws and his master of laws in economic law in Geneva. He is writing a PhD on debt collecting contracts after publications on law of obligations and insolvency.

Hatzimihail Nikitas
Nikitas Hatzimihail is Associate Professor of Private Law, Comparative Legal History and Dispute Resolution and Deputy Head of the Law Department at the University of Cyprus and an affiliated senior researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.). He obtained his law degree from the University of Athens and his doctorate from Harvard University. He was admitted to the Athens Bar and is a CEDR accredited mediator. Professor Hatzimihail teaches on contract law, commercial law, international business law, arbitration and ADR. In addition, he has published widely on Cyprus law and on the history of commercial law and private international law.

Viola Heutger
Dr. Viola Heutger is one of the drafters of the Common Frame of Reference, a tool box on European Contract Law. This research compared common and civil law traditions with the aim of finding roots for pan-European legal Principles. Her main expertise is European Sales Law and Consumer Law. She published two books on European Sales Law and advised several national law commissions in Europe and the Caribbean. She is a devoted university teacher with a broad international experience. She has been teaching at Universities around the world: Amsterdam, Budapest, Curacao, Salzburg, Utrecht, Rome, New Orleans, Paramaribo, Hasselt, Istanbul and Pisa. Her interests cover also Roman law and the interaction between law and language. She is affiliated with the Turkish German University in Istanbul and the Open University for distance learning in The Netherlands.

Mariam Jorbenadze
Ms. Mariam Jorbenadze works as an Associate in our Law Office, specializing in Corporate Law, Commercial Arbitration, Civil Law, Legal Drafting and Analysis. Ms. Jorbenadze holds LL.M Degree in European and International Business Law from the Faculty of Law of Vienna University (Austria, 2015’ Magna Cum Laude); She also holds Bachelor’s Diploma from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Faculty of Law (Georgia, 2012’ with honors). Ms. Jorbenadze has completed part of her undergraduate studies at Vilnius University, mostly concentrated on studying EU Law (2010/11). Ms. Jorbenadze was an active member of European Law Students’ Association, participating as well as contributed in organization of various law schools, moot court competitions and conferences. Ms. Jorbenadze was also a participant of William C. Vis International Moot Court Competition in International Commercial Arbitration (Nineteenth Annual) held in Vienna, Austria, in 2012. Prior to joining BLC in 2012, Ms. Jorbenadze was pursuing internship at Legal Department of Tbilisi City Hall and at Consular Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Her professional experience also includes internship at United Nations Trade Law Commission (UNCITRAL) at headquarters of United Nations in Vienna, Austria in 2014. With Native Georgian Ms. Jorbenadze is fluent in English and Russian languages.

Flutura Kola (Tafaj)
Prof. As. Dr. Flutura Kola (Tafaj) has twenty years of professional and academic working experience. She is a Lecturer of Civil Procedure Law and Arbitration Law in the Faculty of Law University of Tirana and a practitioner of law before all courts in Albania. Prof. As. Kola has also served as arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings. She is devoted to scientific research and has participated in many research projects in different countries such as USA, France, Germany, Italy etc. and in many national and international conferences. She has also published many research papers in domestic and international journals, including textbooks on Civil Procedure Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Since 2008 she is a part-time expert on the training processes in the School of Magistrates and has been selected as legal expert in many projects by GIZ.

Berte-Elen Konow
Berte-Elen Konow is Professor of private law at the University of Bergen where she serves as a Vice Dean for Research. Her authorship includes numerous books and articles on various areas of Private Law, including sales, contract law and secured transactions. She has also written the Norwegian commentary to the CISG. Among other positions of trust she has been active in the working group that prepares a Nordic Restatement of Contract Law.

Joseph Lookofsky
Professor Lookofsky is a native of New York, USA, where he studied American law (J.D. New York University) and became a Member of the New York State Bar. He began his professional career as in-house legal counsel for United Artists Corporation. He came to Denmark in 1973, studied Danish law (cand.jur. 1981 University of Copenhagen), and joined the University Law Faculty in 1981. He defended his doctoral (dr.jur.) thesis (Consequential Damages in Comparative Context) in 1989 and was appointed to his chair in the Law of Obligations in 1992. In 2007 Professor Lookofsky was knighted (Ridder af Dannebrogsordenen) by Queen Margrethe of Denmark. His principal research to date is in the area of Contractual Obligations, Law of Sales (domestic and international), Comparative Law and Private International Law. He teaches the European & International Commercial Law, Transnational Litigation & Arbitration, and Comparative Law and Legal Culture. He has taught at Duke University Law School and has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University School of Law. In April 2013 he was Scholar in Residence at the NYU Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law. Professor Lookofsky serves as Denmark's National Correspondent for UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law). He is co-founder and Coordinator of the Law Faculty's student mobility programmes with Duke University Law School and New York University School of Law. He is Secretary General of the Danish Committee for Comparative Law and is also a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé).

Valentinas Mikelėnas
Valentinas Mikelėnas was born on 6 April, 1958. In 1982 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University, and has since worked there as a professor. In 1986 he continued post-graduate studies at Moscow M. Lomonosov University and got his Ph.D. in Civil Procedure. From 1990 to 1992 he worked as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University, from 1992 to 1997 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University. From 1990 to 2003 he was the Head of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure of the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University. In 1995 he got the Dr. Hab. (Civil Law) degree at Vilnius University. From 1994 to 2000 he was the Chairman of the Working Group for the drafting of the Civil Code (adopted in 2000) of Lithuania. He has been Justice of the Supreme Court of Lithuania from 1997 to 2006. Since 2004 he is a Member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

Ilda Mucmataj
Dr. Ilda Mucmataj, has seven years of professional and academic working experience. She is a Lecturer of Private International Law in the Faculty of Law University of Tirana and a practitioner of law. She is devoted to scientific research and has participated in many national and international conferences. She has also published many research papers in domestic and international journals.

Mistelis Loukas
Professor Loukas Mistelis is Director of the School of International Arbitration and the Clive Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at Queen Many University of London. He teaches at the LLM programme International Commercial Arbitration, International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement, International Commercial Law and ADR. He studied law at Athens, Strasbourg, Hannover and Keio. He has been a Member of the Athens Bar since 1993 and member of the Panel of Arbitrators at ICSID.since 2014. He is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution. His substantial arbitration experience covers ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Chambers and Moscow cases. He is listed in the Who is Who in Commercial Arbitration since 2006. Besides English he is fluent in German and Greek, has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian.

Damjan Možina
Damjan Možina is an associate professor of civil and commercial law at the Faculty of Law/University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He currently lectures Law of Obligations, Introduction to Private Law and European Private Law. He studied law in Ljubljana and Berlin (LL.M., Humboldt). He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana. His main area of research is Law of Obligations, but he also publishes in other areas, such as Private International Law and the L aw of State Liability. He speaks Slovenian, English, German and Croatian.

Barbara Pasa
Barbara Pasa is Associate Professor of Comparative Law and holds the chairs of Comparative Legal Systems, European Private Law, Law, Politics and Globalization at the Department of Law and the SSST (an institution of excellence and higher education for University Studies,) of the University of Torino. She worked as a Visiting Scholar in Europe (Warsaw, Muenster, Barcelona) and United States (Berkeley), and as a Visiting Professor in Bratislava (Tempus Program), Uppsala (Law School), Barcelona (UB Law School) and Tarragona (Law School). She is also a Lawyer (Italian Bar), and a Member of the ELI – European Law Institute. She holds a PhD in Private Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento with a dissertation on the “Rule of Law, Legal Institutions and Economic Performance – The case of Corporate Governance in Central and Eastern Europe”. Specific academic and professional experience in the areas of: - Private Comparative Law, - European Private Law, - Consumer Contracts and Consumer Law, - Legal translation, cultural and language pluralism issues acquired through participation to important European projects (cf. on-line CV).

Jelena Perović
Dr. Jelena Perović, full professor at Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. Lecturing: International Commercial Law, International Business Contracts, International Sale of Goods, EU Private Law. Vice-President of the Jurists’ Association of Serbia. President of the Commission for the International Sale of Goods of International Association of Lawyers - UIA, Paris (2009-2014). Member of International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris. Expert of the drafting team of the ITC Committee on International Commercial Model Contracts, Geneva (2009-2010). Member of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice. National correspondent for distribution and commercial agency contracts for the International Distribution and Commercial Agency Institute, Torino. Scientific collaborator for the Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, Bruylant, Brussels. Editor of the section “International Commercial Contracts, Arbitration” for the law review Pravni zivot, Kopaonik School of Natural Law, Belgrade. Professor Perovic is specialized in international business law, particularly international sales and related transactions. She has acted for many years as chairman of the arbitral tribunal and arbitrator in international institutional and ad hoc arbitrations under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICC and UNCITRAL. Professor Perovic is the author of numerous articles and contributions in the fields of contract law, international commercial law and arbitration.

Marta Pertegás
Marta Pertegás joined the Permanent Bureau in February 2008 as Secretary and became First Secretary in February 2011. She has been responsible for the Hague Conference work in the area of commercial law and litigation since she joined the Permanent Bureau. She directed the development of the Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts until their adoption by the Hague Conference in March 2015 and is currently the lawyer with primary responsibility for the Judgments Project, which aims at the conclusion of a new Hague Convention on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Furthermore, she co-ordinates the promotion and implementation work conducted by the Permanent Bureau with regard to several Conventions and other instruments in the commercial law and litigation area, and carries a number of management responsibilities within the Permanent Bureau.

Siniša Petrović
Siniša Petrović (born 1966) holds a law graduate degree, master of sciences degree (1994) and doctorate degree (1998) on the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb. The title of his doctorate thesis is “Merger of public limited liability companies and other concentrations in company law”. From 1991 he works at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb as an assistant, then as an associate professor and then from 2007 as professor of law. He teaches at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and at the postgraduate program of the same faculty, at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, Split and Graz. From 1999 to 2001 he was a vice dean of the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb. He also participated in negotiations for the Croatian membership in the EU as one of the member of the Croatian negotiating team and is also a member of the Permanent Arbitration Court with the Croatian Chamber of Commerce. He is an author of many scientific articles and several monographies in the field of company law, commercial law, competition law, sports law and foreign investment law.

Meliha Povlakić
Prof. Meliha Povlakić, PhD is currently the vice-dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She teaches Civil Law. Beside the mentioned topic, the fields of her research also include European private law, legal transfer and transformation process as well as process of harmonization of Bosnian and Herzegovinian law with EU Law, international property law, security rights in rem and enforcement law. She is an associated member of International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris), member of the European Law Institute Council (ELI), member of the SEELS Management Board, as well as member of the editorial board of several legal journals published in B&H but also abroad (Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia and Poland). She published several studies, books, and scientific papers in B&H and abroad (Austria, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia etc.).

Andreas Schwartze
Born 1956, Germany. Law Studies in Germany at the University of Hannover, with State Examina-tion in 1982. Practicing lawyer in Hannover, 1982 - 1984. LL.M.-Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, with Master of Legal Studies in Comparative, European and Inter-national Law in 1990. 1990 Doctorate (summa cum laude), and 1997 Habilitation, both again at the University of Hannover. After several Guest Professorships in Germany, e.g. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), University of Magdeburg, University of Rostock, and a Full Professor-ship for Private and Business Law at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, since 2002 holder of the Chair of European Private Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law and since 2006 Head of the of the Department of Private Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Ingeborg Schwenzer
Ingeborg Schwenzer is Dean of Swiss International Law School and a full Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel/Switzerland. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at City University, Hong Kong and at Griffith University, Brisbane/Australia. She has published numerous books and more than 200 articles in the fields of law of obligations (contracts, tort law and unjust enrichment, sales law both domestic and international), commercial arbitration as well as family law. In particular, she is the editor and main contributor of the world’s leading Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (3rd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2010) and its German, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish counterparts. She is director of the Global Sales Law Project with researchers from all over the world; the major work on Global Sales and Contract Law published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. Ingeborg Schwenzer is Chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she regularly acts as arbitrator, counsel and legal expert in international disputes.

Andrey Shirvindt
After graduation in 2004 from the Russian State University for Humanities Andrey Shirvindt took two master’s degrees – a general LL.M. (2005) and a degree in private law (2008) – and proceeded to a doctoral program of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he earned doctorate with a thesis on the role of fictions in Roman law (2011). In 2004 he started his practical career as a paralegal at a law firm, then changed for an analytical department at the Supreme Arbitration (Commercial) Court of the Russian Federation (2006). In 2008 he made a switch to an academic career getting a position of an assistant professor at the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he is teaching civil law and Roman law till today. Since 2011 he is also a consultant at the Alexeev Research Centre of Private Law under the President of Russian Federation. In 2012 – 2013 as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he was researching at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. In 2015 as invited professor he delivered a course of lectures on comparative contract law at University of Vienna. He has published 2 books and over 30 articles.

Renaud Sorieul
Mr. Sorieul is the Director of the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which functions as the substantive secretariat for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He is the eighth Secretary of UNCITRAL since the Commission was established by the General Assembly in 1966. He took up his duties on 1 October 2008. He joined the UNCITRAL secretariat in 1989 and was particularly active in the development of UNCITRAL standards in the fields of international payments, electronic commerce, arbitration and conciliation. A French national, Mr. Sorieul holds degrees in private law from the University of Paris (Paris II). He is also a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and the École Nationale de la Magistrature. A member of the French judiciary since 1981, he served as a magistrate in first-degree law courts (1981-1985), and was subsequently appointed a member of the International Criminal Law Division at the Ministry of Justice (1985-1987). He was then seconded to serve as Head of the Legal Office of the Directorate-General of Energy and Mines, at the Ministry of Industry (1987-1989). In the latter capacity, he was a member of the French delegation negotiating the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities and advised the French Government in the process that led to the registration of France as a pioneer investor (Law of the Sea).

Kasper Steensgaard
Kasper Steensgaard is associate professor in private law at the Department of Law at Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2010, he obtained his PhD in international contract law on 'Standard Terms and Conditions in International Contracts: Incorporation under the CISG and other international rules'. He lectures in most aspects of domestic and international private law as well as international procedural law and arbitration. Since 2011, he has also co-coached the team of Aarhus University in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. His most recent publications deal with jurisdiction under the EU Insolvency Regulation and 'battle of the forms' under the CISG.

Evangelos Vassilakakis
Professor of Private International Law, School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Attorney-at-law practicing at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Appointed as Judge at the Special Supreme Court of Greece for the period 2010-2011. Vice-President of the Lawyers‘ Association of Northern Greece (2011-2014). Enrolled as arbitrator at various arbitral institutions. Member of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law and of the Czech (and Central European) Yearbook of Arbitration. Main areas of interest: Private International Law, Arbitration, International Business Law, Company and Commercial Law, Contracts, Torts, Successions.

Pilar Perales Viscasillas
Pilar Perales Viscasillas is Chair of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, and Director of the School of Law. Prof. Perales is the co-editor: S.Kröll/L.A.Mistelis/P.Perales Viscasillas, UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Commentary. C.H.Beck-Hart-Nomos, 2011. Prof. Perales Viscasillas is CLOUT National correspondant, and formed part of the team that drafted the third edition of the CISG Digest (2012); observer at the Working Group on the preparation of the 4thrd edition of the UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts. Member of the CISG-AC (The International Sales Convention -Advisory Council). Director of the Madrid Moot (www.mootmadrid.es), and coordinator of the Spanish Arbitration Review.

Maciej Zachariasiewicz
Dr Maciej Zachariasiewicz, LLM is an assistant professor at Koźmiński University Law School in Warsaw and an of counsel at Popiołek, Adwokaci i Doradcy law firm in Katowice. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration in Warsaw. Maciej serves also as an UNCITRAL CLOUT National Correspondent for the Vienna Sales Convention. Maciej Zachariasiewicz is an author of number of publications in both Polish and English. His research interests focus on the fields of civil and private international law, as well as international commercial arbitration. Dr Zachariasiewicz wrote his PHD on trusts in comparative and private international law, which has subsequently been awarded a second Prize for the best doctoral dissertations in the “Państwo i Prawo” National Competition (2010). He was a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York (2013) and an intern at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in Luxembourg (2006). He is an alumni of the Central European University (Budapest) and the University of Silesia in Katowice. Maciej’s legal practice focuses on arbitration and contract law. He has also worked on various cases involving issues of European Union law.