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Ms Louise Barrington

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Louise Barrington specializes in international commercial law, with an emphasis on dispute resolution. After practicing law for several years in Ontario, she studied international law in Paris, and taught in Europe and Canada. She joined the International Chamber of Commerce as director of the Institute of World Business Law, and then founded ICC Asia, the first regional office of the ICC. She has been teaching legal skills, European Union Law, Insurance Law and Company law in Hong Kong. She is an international arbitrator, and the founder and director of the Willem C Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Community activities

• ICC Arbitration Commission (Paris) – delegate
• ICC Arbitration Commission (HK) – honorary secretary
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – elected member, 2002-5, tutor and chief examiner for several courses
• HK Mediation Council – co-opted then elected member, 2002-5
• President, Canadian Club of Hong Kong
• Governor, Canadian International School of Hong Kong
• Founder and Co-president, Arbitralwomen Association

Education and Professional Qualifications

• BA - York University, Toronto Canada
• LLB - University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Maitrise en droit europeen - Universite de Paris II (Assas)
• Member, Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario)
• Member, New York Bar
• Solicitor (non-practicing) of England & Wales
• Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Founder and Co-president, Arbitralwomen Association

• International commercial arbitration
• Mediation
• Dispute Resolution

Representative Publications

'Morguard Investments v. Savoye: Developing International Implications'; co-author, Dalhousie Law Review (1992)

'International Commercial Arbitration: An Overview'. delivered at International Export Techniques Seminar for the Chamber of Commerce of Sfax, Tunisia (1994)

'Tools for the International Business Operator'. Delivered at International Contracts Seminars; adapted and presented in dozens of countries on four continents

'ADR in Europe: A Comparative Study'. A private research project for the Canadian federal government (April 1995)

'A Small Step Backward? A comment on the Ken Ren Cases', American Journal of International Arbitration (July 1995)

'Arbitral Women: A study of Women in International Commercial Arbitration'. Presented to the Conference of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Boston, 1996; published in 1997

'The Need for Speed – A Word from Asia', article in Improving International Arbitration, Liber Amicorum Michel Gaudet, B.G. Davis, ed., ICC Publishing S.A., 1998

'Arbitration In Asia'. Review of book by M. Pryles, for International Arbitration Journal, Autumn 1999

'Arbitration in Asia: Recent Trends'. Canadian International Lawyer, April 2000

'Dispute Prevention, Management and Resolution: Can We Do it Better?' Building Journal Hongkong China, July 2000

'Cultural Do's and Taboos: Some Observations out of Asia'. On IBA website: www.arbitration2000.com Book version for publication in Comparative Law Yearbook, Kluwer, The Hague, in 2001.

'Arbitration in Hong Kong: Centre of Excellence'. In Brief, October 2000

'Partnering: The Way Forward for Hong Kong?' Journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, December 2000

'Enforcing arbitration awards in Hong Kong and Mainland China'. Lawyer International, December 2000/January 2001

'Arbitrating Compensation for Expropriation: IPPAs as the New Frontier', for LAWASIA Journal May 2001

'Managing Disputes Better', presented to the International Conference on Construction, 19 June 2001

'Mediating Across Cultures', Asian Dispute Review and in Mediation Newsletter, both in Fall 2002

'The Project Manager as Mediator', Journal of the Association of Project Managers, Spring 2002

'The UNCITRAL Model Law, 15 Years On' – presentation and paper for UIA Congress, Sydney 2002

'From Moses to MITs: A Brief History of Arbitration' – International Law FORUM du droit international, Fall 2004

'Blending Cultures in Mediation' – Paper delivered at 4^th CDAMS Symposium, 16 September 2006 in Kobe, Japan, for publication in 2007

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