ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR

July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 JUDr. Martin SvatosPosted in Arbitration, ICC, International Arbitration, MediationTagged Arbitration, ICC, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, mediation

As from spring 2018, Dr. Martin Svatoš, Ph.D. was appointed a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR representing the Czech Republic.

The ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR is a unique think tank and rule-making body of the International Chamber of Commerce in the field of international dispute resolution. The commission proposes new policies in the interest of efficient and cost-effective dispute resolution and provides useful tools for the conduct of dispute resolution.

The commission is made up of approximately 1,000 members from more than 92 countries comprising lawyers, in-house counsel, arbitrators, mediators, law professors and experts in various dispute resolution fields.

Members are appointed to the commission by an ICC regional office (known as national committees) in their respective countries.

Members meet twice yearly to discuss and approve proposed rules, reports and guidelines.

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Martin is one of the leading Czech mediators and arbitrators. He has acted in more than 200 both international and domestic cases in mediation (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and by the Energy Community). His experiences in alternative dispute resolution were appreciated when he became the President of the Working group of the ICC Czech Republic for mediation. Martin has acted in several arbitrations both as chairman, member of the tribunal and of counsel (listed as arbitrator by the VIAC, Arbitration Court of the Czech Football Association, Czech Arbitration Court and Czech Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court). Martin lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino (Italy). He has been visiting professor at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe. He also gave a course at the Faculté Libre de Droit Institut Catholique de Toulouse, at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (both PRC), Georgetown University (USA) and many others. In 2016, he acted as a member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL WG II. He publishes and gives speeches at international conferences on regular basis. He is one of the co-editors of the EU Mediation Handbook (Kluwer International, 2017). As a speaker, he attended many international conferences all around the globe (the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, the IBA Annual Conference, the German Arbitration Institute Annual Conference, the Conference of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (Dublin) and YIAG conferences (Istanbul, Warsaw)...