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Gary Born
BornSeptember 14, 1955 (1955-09-14) (age 69)
United States
EducationHaverford College (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (JD)
Occupation(s)lawyer, author

Gary B. Born (born September 14, 1955) is an American lawyer. He is chair of the International Arbitration and International Litigation practices at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and the author of commentaries, casebooks and other works on international arbitration and litigation.

Early life and education

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Born attended primary schools in France and Germany and completed his secondary education in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Haverford College in 1978 and a J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1981.

Born served as a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1981–1982) and Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court (1982–1983). Born has practiced with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London for the past three decades and has taught international dispute resolution at law schools in Europe, the United States and Asia.[1]

Scholarship

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Born’s treatise on International Commercial Arbitration has been cited as the standard text in the field of international arbitration.[2] International Commercial Arbitration provides a treatment of the subject of international commercial arbitration and proposes theories regarding the global legal regime for international arbitration and the constitutional status of the 1958 New York Convention (United Nations Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards).[citation needed]

Born has also written on international litigation. His commentary and materials on International Civil Litigation in United States Courts is in its fifth edition. The work is a reference work on international litigation and is credited[by whom?] with having created the field in the United States:[a] International Civil Litigation is frequently relied upon by US judicial decisions, including the US Supreme Court and various Courts of Appeals.[b]

Born has also authored casebooks on international arbitration (including International Arbitration: Cases and Materials (Aspen 2010) and International Commercial Arbitration: Commentary and Materials (Kluwer 2001)) and works on international dispute resolution (including International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing (Kluwer 4th ed. 2013) and International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Kluwer 2012)).

Born's treatise International Commercial Arbitration was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for 2010[3] and was voted the 2009 "IDR-Related Book of the Year" by the Oil-Gas-Energy-Mining-Infrastructure Dispute Management (OGEMID) network.[4] Born again received the OGEMID "Book of the Year" award in 2010 for his International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing.[4] He received the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize of the International Arbitration Club of New York.[5]

Representations

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Born is an advocate in the fields of international arbitration, international litigation and public international law. He has participated in more than 600 international arbitrations, including several of the largest institutional and ad hoc arbitrations in recent decades (see below). In 2006, Born was chosen by his peers as the "World's Best International Litigator" in a survey by Legal Media Group.[c] He was the recipient of the inaugural "Advocate of the Year" award by the Global Arbitration Review in 2011[6] and the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award for International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year in 2012 and 2014.[7]

Born has represented a diversity of clients. He has represented multinational corporate groups in a number of major international commercial and other arbitrations during the past decade. These included disputes involving Deutsche Telekom[8] and Vivendi and France Telecom, Repsol and Atlantic LNG 2/3, Shell Petroleum, Volkswagen, and others.[9]

Born acted as lead counsel in the Abyei Arbitration, conducted under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague at the Peace Palace. He represented the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in the arbitration, implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, between the Government of Sudan and SPLM/A. The Abyei Arbitration had its oral hearings being open to the public and web-cast live around the world. Born’s closing submissions in the Arbitration and the Tribunal Award can be viewed on the website of the PCA.[10] Born represented the State of Eritrea against Yemen in an arbitration under PCA auspices concerning territorial sovereignty over a number of islands in the Red Sea. Born also represented Greenpeace in an arbitration against the Republic of France, concerning the Rainbow Warrior incident. The arbitration concluded with an award of damages in favor of Greenpeace.[11]

Born has sat as arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, including both international commercial and investment arbitrations. Born was a member of the arbitral tribunal in Biwater Gauff v. Republic of Tanzania, which issued an order setting forth guidelines on transparency and confidentiality in investor-state arbitrations.[12]

Professional and academic activities

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Born has taught courses on international arbitration, international litigation or public international law at Harvard Law School,[13] Stanford Law School,[14] St. Gallen University,[15] National University of Singapore,[16] University of Peking, Tsinghua University, Georgetown University Law Center,[17] University of Virginia School of Law and elsewhere. Born was named the inaugural Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor in 2012 at the National University of Singapore's Law School,[18] and has been invited to deliver the James E.C. Brierley Memorial Lecture at McGill University[19] and the Goff Arbitration Lecture at the City University of Hong Kong. He has also been awarded honorary titles by leading universities, including St. Gallen (Professor) and Wayne State University (Doctor of Laws).[20] Born received the Haverford College Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2013.

Born is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and as co-chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation. He also is a member of the Advisory Committee for the ALI’s Restatement of International Commercial Arbitration,[21] the ALI's Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law,[22] the Board of Trustees of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law,[23][failed verification] the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration,[24] the Advisory Board of the African International Legal Awareness,[25] the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre,[26] and the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law.[27] Born is a member of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre[28] and a Vice-President of the American Society of International Law.[29]

Principal publications

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Books

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Nonfiction

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Fiction

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  • The File Addison & Highsmith Publishers (2023)

It is reported that Gary Born is working on another thriller, The Priest, about a former Mafia enforcer who is posted abroad after becoming a priest. He befriends a former general, whose deathbed confession sends the former gangster in search of documents that could reshape the map of Asia.[30]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ See Minear, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts, Commentary and Materials (Second Edition), 35 Harv. Int'l. L. J. 251 (1994) ("…a textbook that is defining the law school course of ‘International Civil Litigation’ in much the same way as Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Herbert Wechsler defined the course of ‘Federal Courts.’"); Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith III, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts: Cases and Materials (Second Edition), 34 Va. J. Int'l L. 233 (1993–1994) ("When International Civil Litigation in the United States Courts was first published in 1989, it was the only casebook (and one of the first hornbooks) to present a ‘comprehensive treatment’ of the ‘emerging field’ of international civil litigation. Now in its second edition, [Gary Born's International Civil Litigation] is recognized by many as the standard general work in the field… the best general hornbook on the subject."); McLachlan, International Litigation and the Reworking of the Conflict of Laws, L.Q.R. 2004, 120 (OCT), 580; Burbank, The World in our Courts: Gary B. Born and David Westin, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts; Commentary and Materials, 89 Mich. L. Rev. 1456 et seq.(1990–1991); Harold Hongju Koh, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts, 100 Yale L.J. 2347 (1990–1991) ("'[t]he best current compendium' regarding international civil litigation."); American Society of International Law, The Future of Transnational Litigation in US Courts: Distinct Field or Footnote? Panel discussion at ASIL 101st Annual Meeting, 2007
  2. ^ J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd v. Nicastro, 131 S.Ct. 2780 (2011); Asahi Metal Indus. Co. Ltd. v. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102 (1987); Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. Cal., 509 U.S. 764 (U.S. 1993); Saudi Arabia v. Nelson, 507 U.S. 349 (1993); J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, 2011 WL 2518811 (U.S. 2011); United Phosphorus, Ltd. v. Angus Chem. Co., 322 F.3d 942 (7th Cir. 2003); United States v. Swiss Am. Bank, Ltd., 191 F.3d 30 (1st Cir. 1999); Kuenzle v. HTM Sport-Und Freizeitgerate AG, 102 F.3d 453 (10th Cir. 1996); Allendale Mut. Ins. Co. v. Bull Data Sys., 10 F.3d 425 (7th Cir. 1993)
  3. ^ See Legal Media Group's Expert Guides

References

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  1. ^ "Gary Born". Wilmer Hale.
  2. ^ Agora, Gary Born on International Commercial Arbitration, Vol. 26 No. 1, LCIA 2010, reviewed by James H. Carter, Daniel Girsberger, Campbell McLachlan QC, Joseph E. Neuhaus with foreword by Thomas W. Walsh
  3. ^ "ASIL Certificate of Merit and Special Book Awards" (PDF). American Society of International Law. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "OGEMID Awards". Transnational Dispute Management Journal. MARIS. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  5. ^ "The Third Annual Smit-Lowenfeld Prize | The International Arbitration Club of New York". www.arbitrationclub.org. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  6. ^ Toulson, Tom; Ross, Alison (March 4, 2011). "And the winner is... GAR's pick of the best". Global Arbitration Review. Law Business Research Ltd.(subscription required)
  7. ^ "Client Choice Awards 2012". Globe Business Publishing Ltd. Archived from the original on October 27, 2012.
  8. ^ Goldhaber, Michael (May 2001). "The Court That Came In From The Cold" (PDF). The American Lawyer. ALM Media Properties. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2006.
  9. ^ "Arbitration Scorecard 2007: Top 50 Contract Disputes". The American Lawyer. ALM Media Properties. June 13, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  10. ^ "The Government of Sudan / The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (Abyei Arbitration)". Permanent Court of Arbitration. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011.
  11. ^ Shabecoff, Philip (October 3, 1987). "France Must Pay Greenpeace $8 Million in Sinking of Ship". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  12. ^ Biwater Gauff (Tanzania) Ltd. V. United Republic of Tanzania (September 19, 2006), Text.
  13. ^ "Archive Courses and Reading Groups for 2010–2011 by Faculty Member". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  14. ^ "International Speaker Series – Gary Born". Stanford Law School. March 12, 2008. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  15. ^ "External Professors". University of St. Gallen Law School. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  16. ^ "Singapore International Arbitration Academy, Full Programme" (PDF). National University of Singapore. November 26 – December 14, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  17. ^ "American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting and Research Forum". Georgetown Law. October 19–21, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  18. ^ "International law expert Gary Born delivers inaugural Kwa Geok Choo distinguished visitor lecture". National university of Singapore. January 25, 2012.
  19. ^ "The Law Applicable to International Arbitration: Agreements Past, Present and Future". December 3, 2013.
  20. ^ "International arbitration authority Gary Born to speak at 2012 Wayne Law Commencement". Wayne State University Law School. April 19, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  21. ^ "Restatement Third, The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration". ALI Current Projects. The American Law Institute. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010.
  22. ^ "Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States". ALI Current Projects. The American Law Institute.
  23. ^ "Gary Born, Esq Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Gary Born, Esq Profile". www.debretts.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011.
  24. ^ "Academic Council". The Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
  25. ^ "Advisory Board". Africa International Legal Awareness.
  26. ^ "HKIAC Makes Key Changes to Its Organisational Structure". Archived from the original on March 6, 2014.
  27. ^ "Advisory Board". Indian Journal of Arbitration Law. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014.
  28. ^ "Member of the Court". Singapore International Arbitration Centre.
  29. ^ "Vice President". The American Society of International Law.
  30. ^ https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/reviews/the-file/5117767.article
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