Pr. Pierre LALIVE Partner Rue de la Mairie 35 PO Box 6569 CH

Pr. Pierre LALIVE
Partner
Rue de la Mairie 35
PO Box 6569
CH-1211 Geneva 6
[email protected]
Phone: +41 22 319 87 00
Fax: +41 22 319 87 60
Admission
Geneva, 1951
Areas of practice
Nationality
Swiss
Public International Law and International Trade &
Investment Law
International Arbitration
Art and Cultural Property Law
Languages
French
English, Italian, German
Sports Law
Professor Pierre Lalive is a senior partner and founder of the firm, and one of the world’s leading
specialists in international disputes with over fifty years of experience in international law and
arbitration. He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in several hundred international arbitration
proceedings either ad hoc or conducted under the rules of all main arbitration institutions and dispute
resolution bodies. A key part of his practice involves inter-state and state-investor disputes and he has
acted for several States before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He was one of the
seven experts appointed by the Swiss government to draft the 1987 Swiss Code of Private
International Law, including the rules on international arbitration.
Professor Lalive frequently also acts as counsel or expert in relation to art law disputes. He was the
president of the UNIDROIT Diplomatic Conference of Governmental Experts on the Protection of
Cultural Property and instrumental in the elaboration of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or
Illegally Exported Cultural Objects.
He has held key positions in numerous professional associations in the fields of arbitration,
international law and art law. Among others, he is the honorary president of the Swiss Arbitration
Association (ASA) and of the Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC), Member Hon. and former president of the Institut de droit international, member of
the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and of the Court of Arbitration for Sport
(CAS). He is the author of more than 200 publications, principally in the fields of private and public
international law, international business law, arbitration and art law. He is also the founder (1983),
former editor-in-chief (until 2009) and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the ASA Bulletin, one of the
leading arbitration reviews.
Professor Lalive has held many academic positions in Switzerland and abroad, including in the United
Kingdom. He was awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize (for Private International Law) in 1990, and
has been granted the title of Doctor honoris causa by the Universities of Lyon (1976), Paris II (1982),
Brussels (1989) and Rome (1996). He graduated from the University of Geneva («licence-ès-lettres»
and «licence en droit») and has also studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in
Geneva and at the International Law Academy in The Hague. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Cambridge, U.K., where he became Fellow of King's College and Arthur Goodhardt Professor of Legal
Science. He was Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, at the
International Academy of Comparative Law in The Hague, at Columbia University, Torino University
Law School, and various other Universities.
Publications
On the Availability of Counterclaims in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Pierre Lalive, Laura Halonen, 2011
In: Rights of the Host States within the System of International Investment Protection, Czech Yearbook
of International Law 2011, Ed. Juris Publishing, Inc., Huntington, NewYork, Vol.II, pp.141-156
Forme et Fond dans l'arbitrage international
Pierre Lalive, 2011
In: Liber Amicorum en l'honneur de Serge Lazareff, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 2011, pp. 391-395
Correspondance au sujet de l’article 190 (2) LDIP – Quelques lignes en réponse à l’article du
Professeur Lalive…
Pierre Lalive, Philippe Schweizer, Pierre A. Karrer, 2011
ASA Bull. 1/2011, Vol. 29, pp. 66
L’article 190 al. 2 LDIP a-t-il une utilité ?
Pierre Lalive, 2010
ASA Bull. 4/2010, Vol. 28, pp. 726
On the reasoning of international arbitral awards
Pierre Lalive, 2010
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp. 55-65
Un faux problème : monisme ou dualisme dans la législation arbitrale ?
Pierre Lalive, 2009
In: Mélanges en l’honneur de François Dessemontet, Collection du CEDIDAC, Edgar
Philippin/Philippe Gilliéron/Pierre-François Vulliemin/Jean-Tristan Michel (Eds.), Fondation pour le
Centre du droit de l’entreprise de l’université de Lausanne (CEDIDAC), Lausanne, 2009, Vol. 80,
pp. 255-263
Absolute finality of arbitral awards?
Pierre Lalive, 2009
Revista Internacional de Arbitragem e Conciliaçao - Año I-2008, Associação Portuguesa de
Arbitragem (APA), Ed. Almedina, Coimbra, 2009, pp. 109-127
L’ordre public transnational et l’arbitre international
Pierre Lalive, 2009
In: "New instruments of private international law", Liber Fausto Pocar, Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore S.p.A.,
Milan, 2009, Vol. II, pp. 599-611
De la diplomatie arbitrale
Pierre Lalive, 2008
In: Diritto Internazionale Pubblico e delle Organizzazioni Internazionali, Studi in Onore di Umberto
Leanza, Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 2008, Vol. I, pp. 393-400
Dimensions internationales du commerce de l’art
Pierre Lalive, 2008
Le Marché de l’Art, Revue de la Faculté de Droit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ed. Bruylant, Brussels,
2008, Vol. 36/2007-2, pp. 57-65
Dérives arbitrales (2/2)
Pierre Lalive, 2006
ASA Bull. 1/2006, Vol. 24, pp. 2-12 For part 1, please refer to ASA Bull. 4/2005, Vol. 23, pp. 587-592
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Dérives arbitrales (1/2)
Pierre Lalive, 2005
ASA Bull., 4/2005, Vol. 23, pp. 587-592 For part 2, please refer to ASA Bull. 1/2006, Vol. 24, pp. 2-12
Du courage dans l’arbitrage international
Pierre Lalive, 2005
In: Bonhet/Wessner (Eds.), Mélanges en l’honneur de François Knoepfler, Basle, Helbing &
Lichtenhahn, 2005, pp. 157-160
Sur une commercialisation de l’arbitrage international
Pierre Lalive, 2004
In: Litec (Ed.), Liber Amicorum Claude Reymond : Autour de l’arbitrage, Editions du Juris-Classeur,
Paris, 2004, pp. 167-172
Un anachronisme en droit international privé ? (l’ATF Hirsch c. Cohen revisité)
Pierre Lalive, 2004
In: Héritier/Lachat & Hirsch (Eds.), De Lege Feranda : Etudes pour le Professeur Alain Hirsch, Editions
Slatkine, Geneva, 2004, pp. 443-446
On the transfer of seat in international arbitration
Pierre Lalive, 2002
In: Nafziger/Symeonides (Eds.), Law and Justice in a Multistate World, Essays in Honor of
Arthur T. von Mehren, New York, Transnational Publishers, New York, 2002, pp. 515-526
Some objections to jurisdiction in Investor-State arbitration
Pierre Lalive, 2002
Procès-verbaux du 16e Congrès de l’ICCA, May 2002
Décision sur les mesures conservatoires sollicitées par les parties (Victor Pey Casado et
Fondation Président Allende c. la République du Chili)
Pierre Lalive, 2001
Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2001, Vol. 16, pp. 567-602
Principe d’inquisition et principe accusatoire dans l’arbitrage commercial international
Pierre Lalive, 2001
Revue de droit uniforme, 2001, Vol. 4, pp. 887-900
Raison d’Etat et arbitrage international
Pierre Lalive, 2001
In: Law of International Business and Dispute Settlement in the 21st Century: Liber Amicorum
Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, Köln, Berlin, Munich, 2001, pp. 469-475
A disturbing international convention: Unidroit
Pierre Lalive, 1999
Art Antiquity and Law, September 1999, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 219-228
Irresponsibility in international commercial arbitration
Pierre Lalive, 1999
Asia Pacific Law Review, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 161-176
Patrimoine culturel national ou patrimoine culturel commun ?
Pierre Lalive, 1999
In: Hafner/Loibl & Rest (Eds.), Mélanges en l’honneur de Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern, Kluwer Law
International, The Hague, 1998, pp. 365-379
Réflexions sur un ordre public culturel
Pierre Lalive, 1999
In: E. Wyler/A. Papaux (Eds.), L’Extranéité ou le dépassement de l’ordre juridique étatique. Actes du
colloque des 27 et 28 novembre 1997 organisé par l’Institut d’études de droit international de la
Faculté de droit de l’Université de Lausanne, A. Pedone, Paris, 1999, pp. 155-185
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Sur l’irresponsabilité arbitrale
Pierre Lalive, 1999
In: Haldy/Rapp/Ferrari (Eds.), Etudes de procédure et d’arbitrage en l’honneur de J.-F. Poudret,
Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Lausanne, 1999, pp. 419-435
Towards a decline of international arbitration?
Pierre Lalive, 1999
The Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 1999, Vol. 65, pp. 251-254
Une convention internationale qui dérange : La Convention UNIDROIT sur les biens culturels
Pierre Lalive, 1999
In: Dupuy/Sicilianos (Eds.), Mélanges en l’honneur de Nicolas Valticos, A. Pedone, Paris, 1999,
pp. 177-188
Le choix de l’Arbitre
Pierre Lalive, 1998
In: Robert (Ed.), Mélanges Jacques Robert, Libertés, Paris, Montchrestien, 1998, pp. 353-363
Vie des affaires et droit international
Pierre Lalive, 1998
In: Liber Amicorum: Commission Droit et Vie des Affaires, 40ème anniversaire (1957-1997), Brussels,
Bruylant, 1998, pp. 117-124
La convention d’UNIDROIT sur les Biens Culturels Volés ou Illicitement Exportés
(du 24 juin 1995)
Pierre Lalive, 1997
Revue suisse de droit international et de droit européen, 1997, Vol. 7, pp. 13-66
Sur des dimensions culturelles de l’arbitrage international
Pierre Lalive, 1996
In: Makarczyk (Ed.), Theory of international law at the threshold of the 21st century: Essays in Honour
of Krzysztof Skubiszewski, The Hague, Kluwer, 1996, pp. 771-785
Une avancée du droit international: La Convention de Rome d’UNIDROIT sur les Biens
Culturels Volés ou Illicitement Exportés
Pierre Lalive, 1996
Revue de droit uniforme, 1996, Vol. 1, pp. 40-58
Cultural differences and international arbitration
Pierre Lalive, 1995
Euromoney, 1995, Vol. 9, pp. 13-15
Les modes non judiciaires de règlement des conflits (introduction)
Pierre Lalive, 1995
In: Hanotiau/Lalive/Linsmeau (Eds.), Les modes non judiciaires de règlement des conflits, Brussels,
Bruylant, 1995, pp. 9-11
Le statut des biens culturels en droit international privé suisse
Pierre Lalive, 1994
In: Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Ed.), Rapports suisses présentés au XIVème Congrès
international de droit comparé (Athènes, 31 July - 6 August 1994), Zurich, Schulthess, 1994,
pp. 91-108
Nouveaux regards sur le droit international privé, aujourd’hui et demain
Pierre Lalive, 1994
Revue Suisse de Droit International et de Droit Européen, 1994, Vol. 1-2, pp. 3-29
Sur le régime des objets d’art volés en droit international privé
Pierre Lalive, 1993
In: Matscher/Karas Valdheim (Eds.), Europa im Aufbruch: Festschrift Fritz Schwind zum
80. Geburtstag, Vienna, Manzsche Verlag, 1993, pp. 51-69
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Sur le retour des biens culturels illicitement exportés
Pierre Lalive, 1993
In: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Catholique de Louvain (Ed.), Nouveaux
Itinéraires en droit – Hommage à François Rigaux, Brussels, Bruylant, 1993, pp. 283-298
Arbitrage international : le champ d’application, l’arbitrabilité, la convention d’arbitrage ; le
tribunal arbitral, la procédure, la compétence ; les sentences, les recours, le droit transitoire
Pierre Lalive, 1992
Fiches Juridiques Suisses, 1992, Nos 946, 946a and 946b German version: Internationale
Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
Avantages et inconvénients de l’arbitrage ad hoc
Pierre Lalive, 1991
In: Etudes offertes à Pierre Bellet, Paris, Litec, 1991, pp. 301-321
Le droit applicable au fond par l’arbitre international
Pierre Lalive, 1991
In: De Lourdes Belchior (Ed.), Droit international et droit communautaire : actes du colloque, Paris,
5 et 6 avril 1990, Paris, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Centre culturel portugais, 1991, pp. 33-53
Les conflits de lois en droit antitrust (introduction)
Pierre Lalive, 1991
In: Renold (Ed.), Les conflits de lois en droit antitrust : contribution à l’étude de l’application
internationale du droit économique, Zurich, Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, 1991
La jurisprudence suisse de droit international privé
Pierre Lalive, 1990
Annuaire suisse de droit international, 1990, Vol. XLVII, pp. 311-345
Sur l’impartialité de l’arbitre international en Suisse
Pierre Lalive, 1990
La semaine judiciaire, 1990, Vol. 112, pp. 362-371
Arbitrato commerciale internazionale et ordinamenti interni
Pierre Lalive, 1989
In: ISDACI (Ed.), Arbitrato nazionale e internazionale: interpretazione ed esecuzione del lodo, Milano,
24Ore, 1989, pp. 49-51
De l’importance du droit international privé
Pierre Lalive, 1989
ASA Bull. 3/1989, Vol. 7, pp. 249-252
Droit de l’arbitrage interne et international en Suisse
Pierre Lalive, 1989
Lausanne, Editions Payot, 1989, ISBN 2601006358
Le nouveau droit de l’arbitrage international en Suisse
Pierre Lalive, 1989
Journal du Droit International, 1989, Vol. 116, pp. 905-963
On the conflict rules applicable by the international arbitrator
Pierre Lalive, 1989
ASA Bull.1/1989, Vol. 7, pp. 27-37
Ordém publica transnacional e arbitragem internacional
Pierre Lalive, 1989
Revista do Direito do Comercio e das Relaçoes Internacionais, 1989, Vol. 1, pp. 25-69
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Conferences
Selection of recent conferences (for a complete list, please contact Pr. Pierre Lalive):
Basel Institute on Governance
Governance of Cultural Property: Preservation and Recovery
Basel, 29-30 September 2009
Panellist: International conventions and national laws
CREDIMI
Droit et marchandisation
Dijon (France), 18-19 May 2009
Moderator
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
Cambridge (UK), 11 May 2009
Speaker: Transnational public policy in international arbitration
Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) Geneva Group
L’arbitrage au bord du Léman: hier, aujourd’hui, demain
Geneva, 8 May 2009
Commentator
Swedish Arbitration Association
Swedish Arbitration Days: “Public Policy in International Arbitration”
Stockholm, 4-5 September 2008
Panellist: An introduction to international public policy
Juris Conferences
Fourth Annual Leading Arbitrators’ Symposium on the Conduct of International Arbitration
Vienna, 17 March 2008
Member of the Faculty
Portuguese Arbitration Association (APA), Ministry of Justice and Faculty of Law
International Seminar on Investment Arbitration
Lisbon, 18-24 October 2007
Speaker: Absolute finality of arbitral awards?
Juris Conferences
Third Annual Leading Arbitrators’ Symposium on the Conduct of International Arbitration
Vienna, 2 April 2007
Member of the Faculty
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Practitioner workshop on International Arbitration – 10th Annual Review of the Arbitration Act
London, 31 January 2007
Chair
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Academic Positions
Visiting Professor
Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University, New York (USA)
University of Brussels (ULB)
S.M.U. (Dallas, Texas)
1993 Honorary Professor
And formerly Dean of the Geneva Faculty of Law; President of the University Council
Law Faculty of the University of Geneva
1993 Professor
International Trade Law Post-Graduate Course, University Institute of European Studies - International
Training Centre of the ILO, Turin
Modern International Arbitration
1990–2010
International Academy of International Law in The Hague
1967-1977
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
International Commercial Law
1961-1986 (Honorary Professor since 1986)
Law Faculty of the University of Geneva
Civil Law, Introduction to Law, Civil Procedure and Judicial Organisation, Private International Law
1955-1993
Director
Law Faculty of the University of Geneva
International Private Law Department
1955-1993
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