Redfern & Hunter on International Arbitration Paperback - 2009 - 5th Edition

Nigel Blackaby is a partner in the international arbitration group and head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's US and Latin America international arbitration groups. Nigel acts as counsel and arbitrator with a particular focus on Latin America. He has represented foreign investors and states in arbitration proceedings under the auspices of the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA and AAA in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Nigel is an editor of Arbitration International, a council member of the LCIA Latin America Users' Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is editor and co-author of International Arbitration in Latin America (2003), a co-author of A Guide to ICSID Arbitration (2004) and a co-author of the fourth edition of Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (2004). He is an occasional postgraduate lecturer in arbitration at the University of Paris I - Sorbonne.

Constantine Partasides is a partner and head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's international arbitration group in London. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in approximately fifty ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, AAA and ICSID. In recent years, Constantine has specialized in arbitrations in the energy sector arising under contracts and investment treaties. Constantine co-authored the fourth edition of 'Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration'; he is the news editor of the Journal International Arbitration Law Review, and a council-member of the LCIA's European Users Council.

Alan Redfern is a member of One Essex Court. He has acted as chairman, sole arbitrator or party-nominated arbitrator in numerous disputes, including ad hoc arbitrations, as well as those conducted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and under the leading arbitral regimes, including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, AAA and ICDR. Alan is a vice-president of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is also a non-executive director of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is on the international panel of the American Arbitration Association and of arbitral institutions in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.

Martin Hunter was a partner of the firm known as Freshfields from 1967 to 1994, latterly leading the firm's International Arbitration Group. After retiring from the firm he requalified as a barrister and joined Essex Court Chambers, where he continues to practice in the field of international arbitration, both as counsel and as an international arbitrator.

In 1995 he was appointed to the newly-established Sweet & Maxwell chair of international dispute resolution at Nottingham Trent University, and has undertaken teaching assignments at King's College London and at universities around the world.

He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of DIAC; was Deputy Chairman of the committee that advised the UK Government on the 1996 Arbitration Act; is a member of ICCA; and has served on the Arbitration Courts of the ICC and LCIA .

He has also been published extensively extensively in specialist arbitration journals and elsewhere over the last twenty-five years.