What is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)? - Softcover

Jason A. Crook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0951737228 ISBN 13: 9780951737224

Publisher: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2010

Synopsis

Arbitration - The Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 1997 Volume 63

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About the Author

JASON A. CROOK was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 2009, having previously obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law and his Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts from Middle Tennessee State University. In 2010 he received his LLM in International Business Law from University College London, where he specialised in International Trade Law, Company Law, Foreign Investment Law and International Commercial Arbitration. He has written extensively in the fields of American Constitutional and Commercial Law, with articles appearing in the Albany Law Review, the Belgrade Law Review (Анали Правног Факултета у Београду), the Slovenian Law Review, and the Nevada Law Journal, among others, and he has been cited by the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group in a report on National Security and the Commercial Space Sector. He has previously worked for a member of the US House of Representatives and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2003 he was commended by the US Congress for successfully representing the United States of America in an international oratorical event--taking first place over representatives from twenty countries. He currently serves as Research Attorney for CIArb's Department of Research & Academic Affairs. JULIO CÉSAR BETANCOURT was admitted to the Venezuelan Bar in 2001, and obtained postgraduate law degrees in the area of Damages, Procedural Law, International Business Law, and Constitutional Law in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2010 respectively. From 2001 until 2007, he gained significant experience as a practising lawyer acting for both private and public sector clients, and successfully tried cases concerning civil, commercial, administrative and employment disputes. In 2006, he was awarded the `Botón Honor al Mérito' of the Bar Association of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela taking into account his work and academic achievement. Between 2006 and 2007 Julio César was visiting lecturer at the `Colegio de Abogados del Estado Carabobo'. He has published in the field of Administrative Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Having gained theoretical and practical experience in the area of dispute resolution as both an academic and a practising lawyer, he decided to build on his knowledge in the field of ADR. He became an Accredited Mediator in 2008, and received a £13,220 scholarship from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) to pursue LLM studies at UCL, where he studied ADR, Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management and International Arbitration. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Construction Law at King's College London, Visiting Lecturer in ADR at the University of Salamanca and CIArb's Head of Research & Academic Affairs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0951737228
• ISBN 13: 9780951737224
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 63
• Editor: Julio César Betancourt