Professor Emmanuel Gaillard
Professor Emmanuel Gaillard founded and heads Shearman & Sterling鈥檚 100-lawyer International Arbitration practice.听He is also Global Head of the Firm鈥檚 Disputes Unit.听
He advises and represents companies, States and State-owned entities in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and is universally regarded as a leading authority and a star practitioner in both these fields. He also acts as arbitrator and expert witness.
Over the course of his career, Professor Emmanuel Gaillard has acted on many of the cases that have marked the history of international arbitration. In addition to the $50 billion award secured for the majority shareholders of the former Yukos Oil Company, he acted on the ICC arbitration brought by The Dow Chemical Company against Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait, which led to a $2.47 billion award in favor of Dow听Chemical.
Professional directories and publications have noted Professor Gaillard鈥檚 鈥渢remendous reputation in the market as a leading arbitration expert鈥, 鈥渟tandout reputation鈥, 鈥渋ncredible wealth of knowledge and experience鈥 and 鈥渇antastic record in the field鈥. He is 鈥渓auded as an outstanding personality in the arbitration community and is praised for his understanding of multiple perspectives to a case鈥 and 鈥渦niversally recognised as one of the stars of international arbitration鈥.听Who鈥檚 Who Legal: Commercial Arbitration 2018 comments that he is 鈥渁bsolutely outstanding鈥 and 鈥渁 real star in the field鈥. A previous edition of the same guide had stated that 鈥淭here is no one in this profession better or even equally formidable. He eclipses everyone鈥.
A Professor of Law in France and a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School, he has written extensively on all aspects of arbitration law, in French and in English. Co-author of a leading treatise in the field (Fouchard Gaillard Goldman On International Commercial Arbitration), he authored the first published essay on the legal theory of international arbitration. The volume, originally published in French (Aspects Philosophiques du droit de l鈥檃rbitrage international), was subsequently published in English (Legal Theory of International Arbitration), as well as in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish and a number of other languages. He co-authored,听as expert acting for UNCITRAL, the UNCITRAL Secretariat Guide on the New York Convention, published in five official languages of the United Nations.
Professor Gaillard also served as member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, appointed by France (2006鈥2018). He chairs the International Arbitration Institute (IAI) and was the first President and one of the co-founders of the International Academy for Arbitration Law (AIDA).