Christopher S. Gibson

Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Professor of Law, Suffolk University School of Law
B.A., European and English History, University of Chicago
Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.), Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law

Interests: International Business Transactions

Christopher Gibson is an Associate Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he teaches domestic and international arbitration, international business transactions, international trade law, and Internet law. He was the 2008 recipient of Suffolk Law School's highest teaching honor, the Cornelius J. Moynihan Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has taught both in Suffolk’s LL.M. Program in U.S. and Global Business Law at the Eotvos Lorand University Faculty of Law in Budapest, Hungary, and in Suffolk's Summer Law Program at the University of Lund in Sweden.  Until 2004, Professor Gibson was a founding partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He continues to consult with Steptoe & Johnson through its London and Washington, D.C. offices.

Professor Gibson is an expert in international arbitration, international law, and intellectual property. He has extensive experience representing private and public clients in a variety of settings, focusing on international arbitration, litigation and international claims.  He has sat as chairman, sole arbitrator and party-nominated arbitrator in arbitrations under AAA, ICC, UNCITRAL, UDRP, Nominet and WIPO rules. Professor Gibson's practice experience as counsellor and advocate spans both sides of the Atlantic, and he has acted as lead counsel in arbitrations with sums in dispute ranging from $5 million to more than $350 million and involving intellectual property, international supply and framework contracts, distribution and licensing agreements, joint ventures, telecommunications, investment disputes, and arbitral award enforcement. He has also acted as mediator and counsel in mediations. He has extensive advocacy experience before courts, arbitral tribunals, government agencies and international organizations. He was lead lawyer in presenting claims for over 400,000 individuals to the "C" panel of commissions at the United Nations Compensation Commission, and a legal assistant at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. He has advised on dispute resolution systems and procedures for domain name disputes, on-line ecommerce, and the U.S. national title insurance industry. Professor Gibson is a member of a number of the leading arbitrator rosters including AAA, CPR , ICC, LCIA, NAF, Nominet and WIPO panels. Professor Gibson is Vice-Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and a contributor to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. Professor Gibson was recently selected to be a co-chair for the 2010 ITA Workshop on International Arbitration.