Professor Julian Lew QC founded the School of International Arbitration in 1985. He has been involved with international arbitration as an academic, practitioner and arbitrator since the early 1970s. He has written extensively on international commercial and investment arbitration and has lectured and been a visiting professor in many countries around the world. Professor Lew has been involved with many of the major international arbitration institutions, including having been a member of the Courts of the ICC, LCIA and SIAC. He was a member of the ICC Institute of World Law, the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and has chaired various ICC task forces. He was also the founder, and is now the joint editor, of the International Arbitration Law Library (Kluwer). As a practising international arbitration lawyer, Professor Lew represented clients, including governments and multinationals, in many international arbitrations. Since 2005 he has been a full-time international arbitrator at Twenty Essex and accepts appointments as arbitrator in commercial and investor-state disputes.
Ms Norah Gallagher is Academic Director of the Energy Law Institute and former ‘Jean Monnet Chair in Natural Resources Law and Policy’ (2018-2019) at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Norah is a public international lawyer who has specialised in international dispute resolution for over 20 years. She has advised on a range of issues on international commercial and investment cases and sits regularly as arbitrator. Norah worked at Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and was Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from December 2007 before moving to Singapore in 2010.