Stephen Myron Schwebel,is an American jurist and international judge,counsel and arbitrator. He previously served as judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2010–2017),as a member of the U.S. National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration,as president of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (1993–2010),as president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000),as vice president of the International Court of Justice (1994–1997),and as Judge of the International Court of Justice (1981–2000). Prior to his tenure on the ICJ,Schwebel served as deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1974–1981) and as assistant legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1961–1967). He also served as a professor of law at Harvard Law School (1959–1961) and Johns Hopkins University (1967–1981). Schwebel is noted for his expansive opinions in momentous cases such as Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua and Oil Platforms.
Christopher Adebayo Ojo,SAN is a former Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As such,he is also a past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice. He is a legal practitioner and is licensed to practise in Nigeria,England and Wales. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Vincent Lee McKusick was an American attorney and Chief Justice of Maine. At the time of his death McKusick worked at the firm Pierce Atwood in Portland,Maine as of Counsel.
Emmanuel Gaillard was a prominent practicing attorney,a leading authority on international commercial arbitration,and a law professor. He founded the international arbitration practice of the international law firm Shearman &Sterling before launching Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes,a global law firm dedicated to international arbitration,in 2021. He frequently acted as an arbitrator in international commercial or investment disputes.
Thomas W. Wälde,former United Nations (UN) Inter-regional Adviser on Petroleum and Mineral Legislation,was Professor &Jean-Monnet Chair at the Centre for Energy,Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP),Dundee.
Forum,formerly known as the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is an American organization that provides arbitration and mediation services to businesses,based at its Minneapolis headquarters and offices in New Jersey. The organization was founded in 1986. As of 2008,the National Arbitration Forum administered over 200,000 cases a year,most of which were consumer debt collection cases. In 2009,the National Arbitration Forum ceased administration of new consumer arbitrations as part of a consent decree with the Attorney General of Minnesota Lori Swanson concerning the NAF's ties with debt collection firms. The company maintains a panel of over 1,600 arbitrators and mediators who are attorneys and former judges located across the United States and in 35 countries around the world. Panelists arbitrate and mediate the disputes.
Makhdoom Ali Khan,is a practising Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Makhdoom Ali Khan is a former Attorney General of Pakistan,former chairman Pakistan Bar Council,former member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan,former board member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and a former board member of the Sindh Judicial Academy. He is a serving Member on the Governing Board of the British Pakistan Law Council,an Officer of the Board of the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration (FICACIC),a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre,a member of the Advisory Board of the Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC),a former member of the court of the London Court of International Arbitration and a member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute's (ICSID) Chairman's Panel of Arbitrators. He has consistently been ranked amongst the top three litigators in Pakistan over the last three decades both by reputation and in international rankings in legal publications and amongst the top two litigators in the Sindh High Court in Karachi. Since his return to private practice in 2007 he is globally regarded as the preeminent commercial,taxation and constitutional litigator,arbitrator and arbitration lawyer in Pakistan.
Adetokunbo Kayode(Listen) is a Nigerian corporate lawyer,tax expert and international arbitrator.
The Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto is made up of several litigators,academics,arbitrators,and mediators from the Greater Toronto Area. The group promotes arbitration as an alternative method of conflict resolution over litigation,especially in commercial suits. Members include commercial litigators from Toronto law firms including some of the Seven Sisters of Bay Street. Each member has experience and interest in promoting commercial Arbitration. The group dedicates its time to encouraging this form of Dispute resolution through seminars,papers,and talks.
Mohammed Bello Adoke is a Nigerian lawyer. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and was appointed Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation on 6 April 2010,when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.
Henry Odein Ajumogobia is a Nigerian lawyer who served as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources between 2007 and 2009 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2010 to July 2011. He was also Head of Nigeria's delegation to OPEC from July 2007 to December 2008.
Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola,is a Nigerian jurist,he was Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994. He was president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985. He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission,organized through the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Douglas Samuel Jones,is an independent international arbitrator based in London,Sydney and Toronto. He is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers,London,a member of Sydney Arbitration Chambers,and a member of Toronto Arbitration Chambers in Toronto,Canada. He serves as an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court.
Janet Walker is a Chartered Arbitrator with offices in Toronto,Canada,London,England and Sydney,Australia. She is a Canadian scholar and author in the fields of Private International Law and Civil Procedure at Osgoode Hall Law School. She is also a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. Walker is married to Australian lawyer and international arbitrator,Doug Jones AO.
Fabian Ajogwu,SAN,FCIArb,is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the Founding Partner of Kenna Partners. He has well over two decades of law practice experience in the field of Foreign Direct Investments and Corporate Restructuring in the Financial Services Sector,and Natural Resources Sector;including Litigation and Arbitration in related fields. He is an alumnus of the Said Business School of Oxford University and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School in Nigeria where he lectures and has taught courses on Business Law and Negotiations over the past 15 years.
Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo is a Nigerian lawyer,professor,and politician who is the 14th and current Vice President of Nigeria since 2015. A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC),he previously served as Attorney General of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and holds the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria. In April 2022,he announced his intention to run for the APC nomination for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election. He was third in the APC presidential primaries held in June 2022 with a total of 235 votes from the delegates.
Aisha Rimi is from Katsina State in Northern Nigeria. She is the founding partner at Africa Law Practice (ALP),a commercial law firm in Nigeria. She is also a founding member of Halal Children's Orphanage. She is a law graduate of the University of Buckingham in England. She is married to Folorunsho Coker,the Chairman of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation.
Titilope Gbemisola Akosa,popularly known as Titilope Akosa,is a Nigerian environmentalist,climate justice advocate,lawyer,gender and social inclusive expert,and human rights activist. She is the founder and executive director for the non-governmental sustainability organization Centre for 21st Century Issues (C21st). She heads the law firm Titi Akosa &Co Nigeria. In 2015,she was the spokesperson for women and gender non-governmental organizations at the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty on the topic 'Towards a Gender Responsive Green climate fund in Africa'.
Journey of an African Colony,The Making of Nigeria is a seven-episode Nigerian film documentary series. It was released on Netflix on the 60th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. The film series is based on two books —Possessed:A History of Law &Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos 1861–1906 and A Platter of Gold:Making Nigeria —by retired attorney general and commissioner for justice in Lagos State,Olasupo Shasore. It is narrated and produced by Shashore. The series overviews the history of colonization,the slave trade,and independence in Nigeria.
Dorothy Udeme Ufot SAN is a Nigerian lawyer with specialty in Commercial law. She is the first woman from Akwa Ibom State to be elevated to the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
