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Professional Activities

Arbitration-Related Professional Activities

  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

  • International Bar Association Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee

    • Co-Chair, 2020-2022 (responsible for revision of IBA Rules of Evidence)

  • Private Sector Adviser on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Arbitration, Vienna 2000, New York 2001, 2002 and 2006, Vienna 2010, New York and Vienna 2012-2016, New York 2018

  • Institute for Transnational Arbitration

    • Executive Committee member – current

    • Chair, June 2018-June 2021

    • Vice Chair, 2005-2018

    • Program Co-Chair, 2000-2005

    • Workshop Co-Chair, 2000

  • Board of Directors, CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, 2016-2023

  • Board of Directors, 2012-2016, Council, 2016-2023, American Arbitration Association

  • Executive Committee, New York International Arbitration Center, 2012-2019

  • Chair, International Commercial Dispute Committee of the New York City Bar Association, 2013-2016; Member, 2012-2013, 2016-present

  • Counsellor, American Society of International Law, 2016-2022

  • Member of the United States Delegation to UNCITRAL at its Eighteenth Session in Vienna at which the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration was adopted, 1985

  • Executive Committee, New York International Arbitration Center, 2012-2019

  • Chair, International Commercial Dispute Committee of the New York City Bar Association, 2013-2016; Member, 2012-2013, 2016-present

  • Counsellor, American Society of International Law, 2016-2022

  • Member of UNCITRAL Arbitration Expert Group, 2001

  • Member of the United States Delegation to UNCITRAL at its Eighteenth Session in Vienna at which the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration was adopted, 1985​

  • Speaker on arbitration-related topics, including:

    • Atlanta International Arbitration Society, October 2024

    • Columbia Law School-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration, 2021-2024

    • GAR Live New York, September 2023

    • NYSBA/Fordham Law School Arbitration and Mediation, June 2023

    • NYSBA Panel, March 2023

    • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, NY Branch panel, June 2022

    • Stanford Law School guest lecturer, February 2022

    • GAR Lexology Webinar, December 2021

"Joe is one of the top arbitration partners."

Chambers USA, 2023

Other Professional Activities

  • Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU Law School (teaching Professional Responsibility), January 2018-present

  • Chair, Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC) of the New York State Bar Association, 2010-2014; Member, 2009-2010, 2014- present

  • Chair, Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association, 2005-2008; Member, 2001-2005, 2008-present

  • Member, Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar Association, 1996-1999, 2004-2007, 2009-2011

  • Member of the American Bar Association and American Society of International Law

  • Member, Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, 2013-present

  • Member, American Law Institute, 2011-present

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