Professor Yarik Kryvoi (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) and Professor Anna Petrig (University of Basel) are co-directors of the Arbitration Lab.
Professor Kryvoi is a co-director of the Arbitration Lab. He is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is also an Of Counsel at Keidan Harrisson in London.
Before moving to academia, Professor Kryvoi practised law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC and Baker & McKenzie in Saint Petersburg. His main areas of expertise include International Arbitration, International Investment Law, Law and Policy in Russia and the CIS, Reforms and Government Excellence, Economic Crimes, Corruption and Bribery.
Professor Kryvoi is currently engaged in various law reform and capacity-building projects for the United Nations, governmental agencies and academic institutions. He is listed as an arbitrator by several institutions, including the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Asian International Arbitration Centre and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.
He conducted training on international arbitration at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Practicing Law Institute, and for the UK and other governments, universities and law firms. He also participates in the meetings of the UNCITRAL Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform.
Professor Kryvoi has authored several articles and monographs, primarily in the area of international dispute resolution and has also conducted several empirical studies in partnership with leading law firms. His recently published works include Private or Public Adjudication? Procedure, Substance and Legitimacy (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Kluwer Law International, 2023, forthcoming), Public and Private Governance of Cybersecurity: Challenges and Potential (Cambridge University Press 2023, forthcoming).
He is also a co-chair of an expert group convened by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime tasked with analysing the allegations of corruption in investor-state disputes.
Professor Kryvoi is also a creator of online courses International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution and the Annual ISDS Update.
Professor Anna Petrig is a co-director of the Arbitration Lab. She holds the Chair of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She has a PhD in the field of the law of the sea and human rights law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. Anna is a member of the Bar of the Canton of Berne (Switzerland) and the New York State Bar (USA). Her broad legal experience includes work in private practice, the courts, and the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Anna has provided expert advice and legal counsel on maritime-related matters to the Swiss Government, NGOs, international organizations and other international fora.
She has been a member of the Swiss Delegation and the Delegation of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) to the International Maritime Organization. Since 2019, Anna is sitting as Judge ad hoc for Switzerland on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in cases 27 and 29 (The M/T “San Padre Pio” Case, Switzerland v. Nigeria). Currently, she is a member of the team leading the Human Rights at Sea Arbitration Initiative, which aims at providing victims of human rights abuses at sea with an effective remedy. Anna is the author of various monographs, notably pertaining to the law of the sea as well as international human rights law, general public international law and criminal law.
