Private International Law and Arbitral Jurisdiction

International commercial arbitration and litigation are often seen as competing fora, fields of law, or markets. This intersection is at its highest at the forefront of any proceedings, at the jurisdictional stage.

Faidon Varesis is Teaching Fellow at National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge on ’Regulation of Arbitral Jurisdiction: a Private International Law Proposal’ and he has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Milan, and Athens. His research interests focus on International Commercial Arbitration and Conflict of Laws. He holds an M.Jur. (Distinction) from the University of Oxford having already completed an LLM in Civil law (Summa cum Laude) and an LLB (Summa cum Laude) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Aside from his academic endeavours, he is a qualified attorney practicing in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as representing clients in international transactions.