International Commercial Arbitration, with Special Focus on Russia, by A. A. KOSTIN, Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Le fondement de l'effet des jugements étrangers, par G. CUNIBERTI, Professeur à l'université du Luxembourg

About the Author: Co-publication with: The Hague Academy of International Law.

Alexey Alexandrovich Kostin, born 24 January 1953 in Lithuania (Taurage). Head of the Private International and Civil Law Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (since 2004). Chairman of the International Commercial Arbitration Court (since 2010) and the Maritime Arbitration Commission (since 2011) at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Has been teaching the law of international trade and international commercial arbitration for over 40 years. Visiting Professor, University College London (1987), Boalt Hall Law School, California (1991), York University, Toronto (1991), Wake Forest Law School, North Carolina (1994), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London (1998), The Hague Academy of International Law (2013).
Author of numerous publications on various aspects of international trade law, private international law, international commercial and domestic arbitration. As arbitrator for over 30 years participated in resolving numerous disputes under different arbitration rules in Russia and abroad (Stockholm, Paris, London, Geneva, Zurich, Vilnius, Kiev, Chisinau, Munich, Ulan Bator).
Councillor of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), the Advisory Board at the Vienna International Arbitration Center (VIAC), Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Member of the Scientific-Consultative Councils at the Supreme Court and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council for Codification and Development of Civil Legislation at the President of the Russian Federation.
Took an active part in drafting of the Geneva Convention on Limitation and Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Law on Arbitration Courts in the Russian Federation (2002), the Law on Arbitration (Arbitral Proceedings) and Revisions to the Law on International Commercial Arbitration (2015) of the Russian Federation.

Gilles Cuniberti, né le 1er avril 1971 à Saint Martin d'Hères (France), de nationalité française.
Etudes aux universités de Grenoble, de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), de Paris VII (Diderot), d'Oxford et de Yale. Licence en langues étrangères appliquées, Université Paris VII (1992); magistère de droit des activités économiques, Université Paris I (1994); DEA en droit international privé et droit du commerce international, Université Paris I (1994); docteur en droit, Université Paris I (1998, premier prix du Centre français de droit comparé); LL.M., Yale (2005).
Professeur de droit international privé et de droit comparé à l'Université de Luxembourg, depuis 2008. Auparavant, allocataire de recherches, puis ATER à l'Université Paris I (1995-1999); maître de conférences à l'Université Paris XII (1999-2008). Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School (2006); James S. Carpentier visiting professor, Columbia Law School (2011); visiting professor, National University of Singapore (2013, 2015).
Courtes missions d'enseignements à Sheffield Hallam University (2001), University College London (2002, 2003), Versailles Saint Quentin (2006-2010), ESSEC Business School (2008), Université de Urbino (2010), Renmin University of China (2010), International Hellenic University (2012), Peking University Law School (2012), Université du Mali (2011, 2012).
Membre du comité de rédaction du Journal of Private International Law; principal collaborateur au Journal du droit international (Clunet); directeur de collection, Edward Elgar.
Expert auprès de la Commission européenne (2011, 2017, 2018) et auprès du Parlement européen (2015, 2018). Rapporteur auprès d'UNIDROIT et du European Law Institute (2014-2016).
Avocat au barreau de Paris (depuis 2000), consultant.