This is the 5th in a series of five lunch lectures on International Arbitration offered during the 2018 - 2019 academic year. The series covers the following topics:

1. Introduction to International Arbitration – Professor Tom Ginsburg – 16 October 2018
2. Drafting a Clause – Mr. Johannes Willheim of Jones Day -  28 January 2019
3. Picking a Tribunal –  Mr. Johannes Willheim of Jones Day - 21 February 2019
4. Enforcing Awards – Mr. Michael Nolan of Milbank – 6 May 2019
5. Arbitration Procedure – Mr. John Buckley Jr. of Williams & Connolly LLP - 9 May  2019

John J. Buckley, Jr., Senior Counsel with Williams & Connolly LLP, is the founder and former head of the firm's international arbitration practice group.  A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he serves as arbitrator (co-arbitrator and chair) as well as counsel.  John has extensive experience as lead trial counsel in civil cases and arbitral proceedings and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Since 2015 John has been Visiting Clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School, where he teaches advocacy in international arbitration. 

John’s experience in arbitration and litigation spans a wide range of industries and issues, including energy, oil & gas (refining, gas price review/adjustment, gas gathering, hedging, oil contracts, electric generation); patents (standard-essential patents, FRAND royalty rates, IP licensing); technology (telecommunications, medical devices);  foreign Investment (M&A, share purchase, joint venture); civil engineering and construction; financial transactions; and professional liability.

He has consistently been listed as among the top U.S. commercial arbitration practitioners in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration. His arbitrations have involved proceedings under AAA, JAMS, CPR, ICDR, ICC, and HKIAC rules and ad hoc arbitrations.

John is listed on numerous arbitrator rosters, including CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, its General Commercial Panel of arbitrators for Washington, D.C., its International/Cross Border Panel of arbitrators, and its Energy, Oil and Gas Panel of arbitrators.  He is also listed on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) -- International Panel of Arbitrators; International Arbitration Institute of Paris (IAI); the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); and The Roster of International Arbitrators, Juris, Second Edition.

John is a member of CPR’s Advisory Council and Arbitration Committee, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the International Arbitration Institute, the International Bar Association's Arbitration Committee, and the London Court of International Arbitration's North American Users' Council. He  co-chairs CPR’s Rules Revision Committee.

John earned his A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University and his J.D., with honors, from The University of Chicago, where he was Editor-in-Chief of The University of Chicago Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.  After law school, he clerked both for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.  John later joined the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as special assistant to U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi before joining Williams & Connolly, where he was a partner from 1981 to 2018.  He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York and many federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.

Lunch will be provided.