Dr. Kleinheisterkamp is currently working on an intellectual history of international arbitration, which analyses the genealogy, the competition and cross-fertilization of conceptions of, and discourses on, arbitration in various jurisdictions, its role as a tool of self-regulation of the commercial world and its relation to the State in a globalized economy. He co-heads the LSE Transnational Law Project and his research focuses mainly on international contracts, with special emphasis on arbitration, conflict of laws, and comparative law. He is generally interested in the legal problems relating to the international dimension of trade, such as investment treaty law and issues of law and development with special focus on Latin America.

•  Group on International Arbitration of the UK Government

• Member of the Governing Body for Dispute Resolution of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

• Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council on the CISG and Choice-of-Court and Arbitration Agreements

• Member of the Council of the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• Visiting positions at the Cornell Law School (2015-16), the Graduate Institute in Geneva (2014, 2016), the Université Panthéon-Assas — Paris II (since 2009); the Université catholique de Louvain (since 2011)

LL203: International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (1st edn, OUP 2009) (co-edited with S. Vogenauer)

This book is an article-by-article commentary of the UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts (2004), the global standard in the law for international contracts. The UNIDROIT Principles have been the model for numerous national codifications. Moreover, they are becoming increasingly indispensible in arbitrations of disputes arising out of international contracts, either as directly applicable law or as a source for the interpretation of other laws governing the contracts, such as especially the Vienna Sales Convention. Even their application by state courts has been seriously taken into consideration in the negotiations of the Rome I Regulation.

The Commentary provides a comprehensive analysis of each provision of the Principles in the light of existing authorities and the larger comparative perspective. Thereby, it offers both practitioners and scholars from different legal backgrounds an easy and profound access to the Principles and therefore greatly enhances their use in practice of international arbitration as well as for research and teaching related to international contracts.

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International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America – Regulation and Practice in the MERCOSUR and the Associated Countries (Oxford University Press/Oceana, 2005) 691pp

This work provides practitioners and scholars alike with quick access to and in-depth comparative analysis of the laws of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile (including the new law on international commercial arbitration of September 2004), Paraguay, and Uruguay, as well as of the relevant international treaties, such as especially the MERCOSUR-Agreements of 1998.

The book follows the structure of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, which guarantees easy access to the sometimes complicated national laws. The direct topical comparative analysis provides for a deeper insight than mere country reports. Interviews with nearly 100 judges, lawyers, and scholars assure that the practical reality is well reflected in the analysis. A bilingual annex contains the English translations of all relevant legislation.

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• 'Overriding Mandatory Laws in International Arbitration' (2018) 67(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 903-930
• 'Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals' (with Lauge Poulsen), in European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016 (Bungenberg et al eds, Springer 2016), pp. 527-541. [link to underlying policy paper]
• 'Critically Thinking International Arbitration in Context' in The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration (Brekoulakis et al eds, Kluwer 2016) 401-406
• 'Investment treaty law and the fear for sovereignty: transnational challenges and solutions' Modern Law Review (2015) 78 (5) pp.793-825
• 'Who is Afraid of Investor-State Arbitration? Or Comparative Law?'  LSE Law: Policy Briefing Papers 4/2014
• 'Financial Responsibility in European International Investment Policy' (2014) 63:2 International and Comparative Law Quarterly pp.449-476
• 'European policy space in international investment law' ICSID Review 2012, 27(2), 416-431
• 'Lord Mustill and the courts of tennis - Dallah v Pakistan in England, France and Utopia' M.L.R. 2012, 75(4), 639-654.
• ‘Investment Protection and EU Law: The Intra- and Extra-EU Dimension of the Energy Charter Treaty’ (2012) 15 (1) Journal of International Economic Law 85-109
• 'The Review of Arbitrator’s Interpretation of International Contracts – Transnational Law as a Dangerous Short-Cut. Note regarding Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_240/2009' (2011) 29:2 ASA Bulletin 145-158
• 'Les sanctions pour non exécution du contrat dans les Principes UNIDROIT' in: G. Keutgen (ed.), Les Principes UNIDROIT relatifs aux contrats de commerce international et l'arbitrage (Bruylant 2011) pp.125-143
• 'The Future of the BITs of the European Member States After Lisbon' (2011) 29:1 ASA Bulletin 212-223
• 'The Impact of Internationally Mandatory Laws on the Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements' (2009) 3 World Arbitration and Mediation Review 91-120
• 'Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche'; 'Ausstrahlung des europäischen Privatrechts in lateinamerikanische Rechtsordnungen'; 'UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts' in: J. Basedow / K. Hopt / R. Zimmermann (eds) Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts (Mohr Siebeck 2009)
• 'Eingriffsnormen und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: Ein praktischer Versuch' (2009) 73Rabels Zeitschrift für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht 818-841
• 'Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards', in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max-Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• 'Interdependência entre os Procedimentos de Anulação e de Execução (II): Proposta de reforma da Lei de Arbitragem' [Interdependency between setting aside and enforcement procedures (II): A reform proposal for the Brazilian law on arbitration], (2009) 19 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem
• 'Development of Comparative Law in Latin America' in: M. Reimann & R. Zimmermann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press 2006) 261-301
• 'The UN Security Council's Incapacity of Coping with Conflict-Related Economic Interests' (2005) 37 Studies in Transnational Legal Policy 108-123
• 'O Brasil e as disputas com investidores estrangeiros' [Brazil and the disputes with foreign investors], in: R. Di Sena Jr. & M.T. Costa Souza Cherem (eds.), Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento - Uma Perspectiva Brasileira (São Paulo/Brazil, Saraiva 2004) 156-187 [shorter French version in: S. Monclaire / J.F. Deluchey (eds.), Gouverner l'intégration : les politiques nationale et internationale du Brésil de Lula (Paris, Pepper 2006) available here]
• 'Interdependência entre os Processos de Anulação e de Execução: Estudo Comparativo com Foco na Legislação Brasileira e Alemã' [Interdependency between setting aside and enforcement proceedings: A comparative study focusing on Brazilian and German law], (2004) 1 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem 96-104
• 'Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross Country Comparison' (with K. Pistor, Y. Keenan, M. West), (2002) 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 791-871