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Lise Bosman

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Adjunct Professor
BA LLB LLM

Lise Bosman joined the Department of Commercial Law in 2004 to develop a new course in commercial arbitration, and was appointed an Adjunct Professor in 2007.

Lise is a graduate of UCT (BA LLB) and of the University of Notre Dame (LLM). A specialist in international commercial and investment arbitration, she began her career at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague in 1993 and then practised international arbitration at the Amsterdam offices of the law firms Stibbe (1997-1999) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (1999-2005).

Lise's areas of practice have included international commercial arbitration, public international law arbitration, cross-border transactions, joint ventures, foreign investment law and public-private partnerships. She is currently based at the Peace Palace in The Hague, as Legal Counsel to the Permanent Court of Arbitration and Executive Editor to ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) Publications. Her primary research interest lies in international commercial and investment arbitration practice in Africa.

Courses taught in 2011

Commercial Arbitration

Other professional activities

Fellow, South African Association of Arbitrators.
Rapporteur, Institute for Transnational Arbitration/ Kluwer Arbitration website.
Author, "The Iran-United Claims Tribunal - A joint contribution", Hague Yearbook of International Law (1993-1997); "Rethinking Discovery in International Arbitration", ICC Bulletin, vol. 12, no. 1 (2001).
Executive Editor, ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration.
Series Editor, Permanent Court of Arbitration Award Series.
General Editor and contributing author, Practitioner's Guide to Arbitration in Africa (Kluwer, forthcoming, 2012).

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