William W. Park

R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law
Professor of Law
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
M.A., University of Cambridge

Interests: international tax and finance; conflict of laws; interaction of law and religion

Recognized worldwide for his work in commercial arbitration, Professor William Park's publications include Arbitration of International Business Disputes (Oxford University Press), as well as the casebook International Commercial Arbitration and his treatises International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (now in its third edition), International Forum Selection and Income Tax Treaty Arbitration.

Professor Park has chaired arbitral tribunals in Europe, Canada and the United States, in French as well as in English, and was appointed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker to the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zürich, charged with resolving claims by Holocaust victims and their heirs against Swiss banks. Currently he serves on the London-based Appeals Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, chaired by former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

Early in his career, Professor Park practiced in Paris and taught at Cambridge University where he was a Fellow at Selwyn College. He has held visiting appointments at Université de Dijon, University of Hong Kong, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Geneva's Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, and formerly served as director of Boston University's Center for Banking and Financial Law.

Professor Park is now general editor of Arbitration International and vice president of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is former chairman of the ABA International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee, and now sits on the NAFTA Financial Services Roster. Recent presentations include the Clayton Utz Lecture at the University of Sydney, which explored procedural evolution in business arbitration.