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 | Professor William Park Boston University, School of Law |
Recognized worldwide for his work in commercial arbitration, Professor Park's publications include the casebook International Commercial Arbitration and his treatises International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (now in its third edition), International Forum Selection and Income Tax Treaty Arbitration (2004), co-authored with David R. Tillinghast. He has chaired arbitral tribunals in Europe, Canada and the United States and was appointed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker to the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zürich, charged with resolving Swiss bank account claims by Holocaust victims and their heirs. Currently he serves on the London-based Appeals Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, chaired by former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.
Early in his career, Park practiced law in Paris and taught at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow at Selwyn College. He has held visiting appointments at Université de Dijon, University of Hong Kong, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Geneva's Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales. Park has served as Director of Boston University's Center for Banking and Financial Law, and now teaches courses on international business transactions, commercial arbitration, tax and international finance.
Park is Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, Editor of Arbitration International and Chairman of the ABA International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee. He serves as a member of the NAFTA Financial Services Roster and Co-Rapporteur for the International Fiscal Association study of tax arbitration. Recent presentations include the Freshfields Lecture at the University of London, which discussed the role of procedural rules in arbitration, and an address to the Institute for Judicial Administration in New York on revision of the Federal Arbitration Act.
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