• What is International Arbitration all about?
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• Why do parties choose Arbitration?
• Who are international arbitration lawyers and international arbitrators?
• How do you become an international arbitration lawyer?

Dr. Johannes P. Willheim, M.B.L-HSG, LL.M '04 is a partner of the Global Disputes Practice Group of Jones Day. His practice focuses on international arbitration and complex commercial litigation. Johannes has over 10 years of experience in the energy sector, in particular natural gas markets. He has advised market players at all levels of the value chain in negotiating all varieties of gas supply and other commercial agreements, such as transport and storage agreements as well as represented them in a variety of proceedings, such as regulatory, cartel, merger control and civil proceedings in courts and in arbitration. Over the past ten years, Johannes has represented parties in some of the major price revision arbitrations in Europe.

Johannes is a frequent speaker at arbitration, antitrust, and energy conferences and is author of publications on these subjects.

Mr. Charles Kotuby counsels both private clients and sovereign states in complex global disputes. His U.S-based practice is focused on government regulation and federal appeals. He has authored briefs in more than a dozen cases before the U.S.Supreme Court and has argued cases concerning federal statutory and constitutional issues before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits.

His global practice is focused on international litigation, commercial and investment arbitration. He has counseled clients in both common and civil law systems, and frequently deals with novel issues of public and private international law. Charles has appeared as counsel in international matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union, and before ICSID and UNCITRAL tribunals. He regularly advises energy and mining clients on investment protections in Latin America, Africa, Southeast and Central Asia, and on maritime issues under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Charles Kotuby is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He.has authored dozens of scholarly works on matters of international law, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, where he teaches courses in international arbitration. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is the U.S. editor for Conflict of Laws.net (www.conflictoflaws.net), an online publication in cooperation with the Journal of Private International Law.