Dr Remy Gerbay, PhD (London), LLM (Georgetown), MA (Geneva Grad. Inst.), Maîtrise (Lyon)
Lecturer in Arbitration and International Commercial Law
Email: r.gerbay@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Profile
Dr Remy Gerbay is a Lecturer in International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He is also co-director of the LLM, PGDip and Certificate in international dispute resolution (online), and co-director of the executive course on investment law and arbitration.
Since joining the faculty in 2012, Remy has taught courses on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration in the LLM programme, as well as international commercial transactions in the undergraduate LLB programme (English law). Remy has also taught as a visiting professor at SciencesPo (Paris), Georgetown University’s Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London), ESCP-EAP Business School (Paris), and University of Lyon.
Remy’s research focuses on arbitration institutions, arbitral decision-making, and legal theory. His publications have been cited by arbitral tribunals, courts, and leading arbitration commentaries.
Alongside his academic post at Queen Mary, Remy is also Partner at US law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Washington DC, where he heads up the firm’s investment arbitration practice. As a practitioner, Remy has been recognized by the leading legal directories, including Legal 500 (UK, US, Latin America), and Who’s Who Legal.
Remy also frequently sits as arbitrator, having been appointed in over 30 arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, Swiss Chambers, DIAC, KIAC and VCCA rules (as co-arbitrator, emergency arbitrator, sole arbitrator and Chairperson).
Remy is a Vice President of the International Court of AFSA --South Africa’s arbitration institution, and a former Deputy Registrar of the LCIA and Acting Registrar of DIFC-LCIA.
Remy is a co-Chair of the American Society of International Law's Dispute Resolution Interest Group, and a former co-Chair of the LCIA’s Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Arbitration and the ICC Bulletin, and a member of Georgetown University Law Center’s European Alumni Advisory Board.
Remy holds a PhD in international arbitration law from Queen Mary, an LLM from Georgetown Law (Fulbright Scholar; Dean’s Honors List), a Master's Degree from the Graduate Institute (University of Geneva), and a French law degree from the University of Lyon (High Honours). Remy is admitted to practice as an Attorney (New York & District of Columbia) and as a Solicitor (England and Wales).