Biography: Arbitration

Stephen M Schwebel, former judge and president of the International Court of Justice (1981–2000), has been appointed chairman or arbitrator in 62 arbitral proceedings, and has rendered expert opinions and acted as co-counsel in others.

He currently is chairman of the seven-member Court of Arbitration between Pakistan and India constituted to adjudge their dispute over Indus Waters, and has served in several other interstate arbitrations. In 2010, Judge Schwebel was chairman of the Independent Review Process Panel in the first case ever heard against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In 2011, in addition to the Indus Waters tribunal, he has sat on six investment arbitration tribunals. Judge Schwebel is a member of ICSID's panels of arbitrators, of the ICDR's neutrals panel, and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He serves as president of the World Bank's administrative tribunal, and was president of the administrative tribunal of the International Monetary Fund 1993–2010.

Judge Schwebel is author of International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems, Justice in International Law: Further Selected Writings, and of some 200 articles on international law and arbitration.

Judge Schwebel graduated from Harvard College with highest honours in government, studied international law at Cambridge University, and received an LLB from Yale Law School. He is a member of the Bars of the State of New York and the District of Columbia. He is an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn, an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a door tenant of Essex Court Chambers, London.