Milan Bakeš is a professor of financial law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, and Visiting Professor at UCLA, Los Angeles. He has published numerous monographs and more than 150 expert papers in his field. His most important monographs include Theoretical Issues of Financial Law [Teoretické otázky finančního práva] (Charles University, Prague, 1979) and Taxation and Investment (IBFD Amsterdam). In addition to his teaching and academic activities, he also practises as a lawyer specializing in financial law.
e-mail: bakes@prf.cuni.cz
JUDr. Michal Bartoň, Ph.D. is research assistant to the chair of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc, where he also held the position of vice dean for student affairs during 2006/2007. He is a member of the working committee of the Legislative Council of Czech Government, chairman of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Law at Palacký University, and chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Academic Senate at Palacký University.
e-mail: michal.barton@upol.cz
Univ. Professor, Dr.iur., Mgr., Dipl. Ing. oec/MB, Dr.h.c. Lawyer admitted and practising in Prague/CZE (Branch N.J./US), Senior Partner of the Law Offices Bělohlávek, Dept. of Law, Faculty of Economics, Ostrava, CZE, Dept. of Int. and European Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, CZE (visiting), Chairman of the Commission on Arbitration ICC National Committee CZE, Arbitrator in Prague, Vienna, Kiev etc. Member of ASA, DIS, Austrian Arb. Association. The President of the WJA – the World Jurist Association, Washington D.C./USA.
e-mail: office@ablegal.cz
Dr. Marcin Czepelak is a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an expert for the European Commission – member of PRM III Group.
e-mail: marcin.czepelak@interia.pl
Grzegorz Domański is a professor at Warsaw University and a partner in the Domański Zakrzewski Palinka Law Firm in Warsaw. Grzegorz acts as an arbitrator and represents clients in arbitration proceedings, including investment treaty disputes. He has acted for both investors and respondent state.
e-mail: Grzegorz.Domanski@dzp.pl
Insur Zabirovich Farkhutdinov, Doctor of Law, Leading Researcher of the Institute of State and Law (Sector of international legal research) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-chief of the Eurasian Law Journal (Moscow). Areas of specialization: Public International Law, International Investment Law, state sovereignty. Author of monographs and articles on some aspects of legal regulation of foreign investments.
e-mail: insur_il@rambler.ru
David Fyrbach is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL with significant expertise in international commercial arbitration and investment disputes. David is a member of teams that represent governments and corporations in investment disputes and international commercial arbitration proceedings.
e-mail: fyrbach@rowanlegal.com
Leonila Guglya is a Research Associate in the Multidisciplinary International Investment Arbitration Project, conducted by the Department of International Private Law of the University of Geneva Law School. She holds an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); a MIS degree in International Dispute Settlement from the Geneve Master in International Dispute Settlement Program (Geneva, Switzerland); an LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Central European University; as well as degrees of Specialist in Law and Bachelor in Law from the University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine).
e-mail: leonila.guglya.alumni@mids.ch
Laura Halonen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and an associate with Lalive in Geneva. She specialises in public international law and international arbitration, with particular emphasis on investment arbitration.
e-mail: lhalonen@lalive.ch
Zdeněk Karfík is a lawyer, an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, and a member of the Appellate Committee of the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic; he is a long-standing external associate of the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. In his legal practice, he specializes in financial, civil and commercial law. He has published numerous articles in this field.
e-mail: karfik@volny.cz
Marie Karfíková is a professor of financial law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. In her academic work, she specializes in tax and insurance law. She regularly publishes articles on this subject in professional journals. She has co-authored numerous textbooks and monographs. Between 1999 and 2006,
she was a member of the Legislative Council of the Czech Republic; she has been a member of the Appellate Committee of the Czech National Bank since 2006 and a member of the Presidium of the Public Audit Oversight Council since 2009. She is also an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.
e-mail: karfikova@prf.cuni.cz
JUDr. Libor Klimek graduated from the Faculty of Law, Bratislava College of Law in 2010. He then became a PhD studen at the Faculty of Law, Pan European University, Bratislava (formerly known as Bratislava College of Law). He is the author of several publications, domestic as well as foreign. All his research work, papers and publications are focused solely on the international and European aspects of Criminal Law.
e-mail: libor.klimek@yahoo.com
Dr. Oleksiy Kononov – Education: Economics & Law Faculty at Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine – Specialist in Law (2003); Department of Legal Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary – LL.M. (2007), S.J.D. (2010). He is a former legal practitioner in Ukraine.
e-mail: kononov.oleksiy@gmail.com
Professor Pierre Lalive is a senior partner and founder of Lalive, with over fifty years of experience in international law and arbitration. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in several hundred international arbitration proceedings. A key part of his practice involves interstate and state-investor disputes. Professor Lalive has held many academic positions in Switzerland and abroad, and has authored more than 200 publications.
e-mail: mscherer@lalive.ch
Doc. JUDr. Hana Marková, CSc., assistant professor (docent) of Financial Law and Financial Sciences at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Vice-dean of the faculty. She is dealing with teaching and research work. Area of specialization: budgetary law, tax law and fi nancial performance of local governments. To these issues has also published numerous articles in professional journals.
e-mail: markova@prf.cuni.cz
Doc. JUDr. Pavel Mates CSc., lecturer in administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Bohemia in Plzeň and at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague, specializes in administrative penalties and in information systems law, a topic on which he has published several monographs and a sizable number of articles in scholarly publications. He also concerns himself with the protection of privacy in administrative law, with particular consideration to police operations and the work of other public service bodies. He is an active member of government bodies that are in charge of drafting legislation.
e-mail: mate@ksp.zcu.cz
Miloš Olík is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL who has considerable experience in the areas of investment disputes, international commercial arbitration and various forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has led teams representing government interests in investment disputes and multinational corporations in international commercial arbitration proceedings under various sets of rules (ICC, ICSID, SCC, and UNCITRAL). He is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court Attached to the Economic Chamber and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic for .cz domain disputes.
e-mail: olik@rowanlegal.com
Marek Świątkowski is a partner in the Domański Zakrzewski Palinka Law Firm in Warsaw. Marek’s main practice areas cover mergers & acquisitions and investment treaty arbitration. He has acted for both investors and respondent state in investment treaty disputes.
e-mail: Marek.Swiatkowski@dzp.pl
Andreas von Staden is Assistant Professor of International Organization at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His principal research interests concern human rights law, international investment law, institutional design, and the democratic legitimacy of governance arrangements beyond the state. Prior to joining the St. Gallen faculty, he worked as a research associate at the Frankfurt-based research cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders.” He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and master’s degrees from Princeton, Yale, and Hamburg University.
e-mail: Andreas.vonstaden@unisg.ch
Mgr. Miroslava Zajíčková Ph.D. candidate at the department of Financial Law and Financial Science at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Area of specialization: tax law, the budgetary law, especially in the context of EU legislation, as well as studies of tax systems of member states of the European Union and their comparison. Since 2009 is a principal investigator of the grant GAUK No. 9815/2009 entitled “The tax base in selected countries of the European Union”.
e-mail: zajickova@prf.cuni.cz
