Herbert Kronke is Arbitrator and Chairman of Chamber III of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague (Netherlands) and Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (on leave). From 1998-2008 he served as Secretary-General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). He received his legal education in Germany and the United Kingdom. Author of some 150 books and articles on contracts, commercial law, company law, capital markets law, conflict of laws, international civil procedure and arbitration, he has taught as visiting professor in Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, the United States of America and the Netherlands. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the German Institution of Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, the panels of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
He serves as arbitrator both in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations (inter alia AIA, ICC, Milan Chamber, Stockholm Chamber).

Toshiyuki Kono is a Distinguished Professor & Director of LL.M./ LL.D. Programs of Kyushu University. He is also the VP & Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Director of the International Academy of Commercial & Consumer Law, Chairman of the Committee for Intellectual Property and Private International Law - ILA, and Chairman of the Committee for Cultural Affairs of UNESCO National Commission - Japan. He received his legal education from Kyoto University and passed the Japanese Bar Examination in 1981. Author & editor of numerous books on intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property, and private international law, he has taught as visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University, Munich University, Leuven Catholic University, and Hong Kong City University. He was also the Chairperson of the 3rd General Assembly of the State Parties of the UNESCO Convention for the Safegurding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Paris, 2010), and the Chairperson of the Legal Committee of the 34th UNESCO General Conference (Paris, 2007). On July 2013, he is scheduled to give special lectures on the “Efficiency in Private International Law” at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Professor of Law, Keio Law School
LL.M., University of Cambridge, Trinity College
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School

Prof. McAlinn is a leading scholar and practitioner in the area of international commercial dispute resolution. He has served as an arbitrator (sole, party nominated and chair), mediator, and expert in ICC, JCAA, and AAA ICDR cases. He is an arbitration panel member at a number of leading arbitration institutions. He is a member of the JCAA rules revision committee. Finally, he has served as the presiding arbitrator for the Japan finals of the Vis Arbitration Moot in 2012, and as a judge for the Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition hosted annually by Sophia University.

Caslav Pejovic is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University. Prior to joining Kyushu University in the fall of 1997, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Montenegro. He graduated law at the University of Montenegro (B.A.), he has LL.M. degree from the University of Belgrade and Kyoto University and Ph.D. degree from Zagreb University. His teaching and research interests include maritime law, comparative law, commercial law, international business law and foreign investment law. He is the member in a number of international academic and professional associations, such as the International Academy of Commercial and Consumers Law (IACCL) and the East Asian Law and Society (EALS). He also serves as arbitrator of the ICC Arbitration.

Henry Gabriel is a Professor of Law at Elon University and formerly the DeVan Daggett Professor of Law at Loyola University, New Orleans.  He is a member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT, an elected member of the American Law Institute, a life member of the American Uniform Law Commission, and a United States delegate to UNCITRAL.

He is the author of ten books and over 60 articles, and has been involved in international and domestic law revision for nearly three decades.  He was  the Reporter for the Amendments of Article 2-Sales and Article 2A-Leases of the American Uniform Commercial Code as well as the Chair of the Revision Committee to Revise Article7- Documents of Title, which cover both warehouse receipts as wall as bills of lading.  He also served on the drafting committees of the American Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and the recently completed 2010 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Law.

Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Mooney received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972. He practiced law with the Oklahoma firm of Crowe and Dunlevy and as a partner of the New York firm of Shearman & Sterling. Professor Mooney joined the Penn faculty in 1986, and during 1999 and 2000 he served as Interim Dean of the Law School. From 1998 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2009 he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is an active member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association. He served as a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Permanent Editorial Board Article 2 (Sales) Study Committee and also served as a reporter for that Board’s Article 9 (Secured Transactions) Study Committee and as a reporter for the Revised Article 9 drafting committee. He served as a member of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Market Transactions. Mooney was awarded the Distinguished Service Award, presented by the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He is a Fellow and Director of the American College of Bankruptcy. He also served as U.S. Delegate and Position Coordinator (appointed by U.S. Department of State) at the Diplomatic Conference for the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, in Cape Town, South Africa. He also served as a U.S. Delegate for the UNIDROIT Geneva Securities Convention at the Diplomatic Conferences in Geneva. His current research centers on intermediated securities, sovereign debt restructuring, security interests in bankruptcy, and bankruptcy theory.

Fumiko Masuda is an Associate professor of Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University (2003-); LLB (Kyoto), MJur (Oxford). She graduated from Kyoto University and started academic career in 2000 as a research assistant at Kyoto University. Her main research interests are in maritime and transport law, and related areas of the law of international business transactions and private international law. She currently teaches the law of international business transactions at the undergraduate level and the law school. She is a member of several academic societies, including Japan Academy for International Business Transactions and Japanese Council of International Transactions, for which she serves as a board member.

Dr Thomas Keijser is currently engaged in a research project on Transnational Securities Law as a Senior Researcher at the Business and Law Research Center of the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. From 2007-2012, he worked for Unidroit as Senior Officer, later Consultant, responsible for the Geneva Securities Convention. He was secretary of the Committee of Governmental Experts and the Diplomatic Conference, co-organized and spoke at several international seminars and colloquia on the Geneva Securities Convention, and is co-author and co-editor of the Official Commentary on the Convention.

Keijser studied cultural anthropology (propaedeutic degree; Leiden University), law (LLM, Catholic University of Nijmegen and scholarship, Moscow State University) and Russian literature (MA, University of Amsterdam; cum laude). He worked in the Russian Federation as the legal expert of a project for the European Union. He also worked at De Nederlandsche Bank and law firm Clifford Chance before joining the Law Faculty of the Radboud University Nijmegen, where he lectured and obtained a doctoral degree in law. He was visiting faculty at the Free University of Berlin, the University of California, Berkeley, the International Hellenic University, and The University of Tokyo. He has published extensively in the areas of financial, civil and insolvency law. Since 2010, he has also worked as an advocaat (attorney-at-law) in the Netherlands.

Tetsuo Morishita is currently a professor of Sophia University Law School, focusing on international business law, banking and financial
law and negotiation. After his graduation of the University of Tokyo in 1989, he worked for Sumitomo Bank for 10 years, mainly in the Legal
Department. He received his master degree from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 1994. Since 1999, he has been teaching at Sophia University. He teaches both undergraduate and law school students. He was a member of the working group on the Applicable Laws to Indirectly Held Securities at the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice of Japan (2002-2007). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition in Japan.

Souichiro Kozuka is a Professor of Law, Gakushuin University Law Faculty, Tokyo. Ph.D. in law, Tokyo University. He specialises in commercial law, with special interest in distribution agreements; transport law, including maritime and aerial law; competition/ intellectual property interface; and regulation of financial institutions. He taught formerly at Chiba University and Sophia University Law School and has been acting as Correspondent of Unidroit (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) since 2001 and as a member of IBA (International Bar Association), business law section, since 2002.

Masanori Kawano is a Professor at Law School of Fukuoka University. His research and teaching fields are civil procedure, Insolvency law and International arbitration. Before Fukuoka University he taught at Kitakyushu University, Tohoku University and Nagoya University. From 2002 to 2004 he was the dean of the law faculty at the Nagoya University. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the working group of ALI/ UNIDROIT, Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure. From 2005 to 2010 he was the leader of the project of ”A new framework for Realizing Effective Transnational Business Litigation”. He is now a member of Japan Council of Science. He received his legal education at Kyushu university and stayed as a visiting fellow at Göttingen University as a Humboldt fellow, in Yale University as a Fulbright fellow, Freiburg University and Regensburg University as a Humboldt fellow. He is an author of about 200 books (some articles in German and English languages).