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1. 1. ASIL Insights: The ICJ Awards Sovereignty over Four Caribbean Sea Islands to Honduras and Fixes a Single Maritime Boundary between Nicaragua and Honduras

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   Published on: 11/23/2007   Last Visited: 11/23/2007

   By Pieter Bekker & Ana Stanic
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   Pieter H.F. Bekker, Ph.D. (Int'l Law), a member of the ASIL Executive Council, is a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in New York City (pbekker@earthlink.net). He is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law. A former staff lawyer in the ICJ Registry, he has written two books (Commentaries on World Court Decisions (1987-1996) (1998) and World Court Decisions at the Turn of the Millennium (1997-2001) (2002)) and numerous articles and notes on the ICJ. He has also appeared as counsel in ICJ cases.
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   Dr. Bekker and Ms. Stanic are co-consultants on maritime disputes.

2. 2. Juris Conferences - Investment Treaty Arbitration : Faculty

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   Published on: 5/17/2007   Last Visited: 12/1/2007

   PIETER H.F. BEKKER is a Partner in the International Dispute Resolution Group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in New York. He is an Adjunct Professor of International Arbitration at Fordham University School of Law in New York and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Bekker worked in the Registry of the International Court of Justice.
   
   R. DOAK BISHOP is a Partner in King & Spalding's Houston office and Chair of the Firm's International Arbitration Practice Group. He is Vice-Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration.

3. 3. www.mwe.com

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   Published on: 8/19/2007   Last Visited: 8/19/2007

   Our People / Pieter Bekker
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   Pieter Bekker
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   Pieter Bekker
   
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   Dr. Pieter Bekker is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in its New York office. As a member of the Trial Department and the International Dispute Resolution (IDR) Practice Group, Pieter, who was educated and has practiced in both Civil Law and Common Law, focuses his practice on international dispute resolution (especially arbitration) and advice on public international law, in which he holds a doctorate.
   
   Pieter counsels private and public sector clients on a wide range of international law issues, including jurisdiction, immunity, enforcement, expropriation, environmental law, law of the sea, treaty law, and State responsibility. He has broad experience in matters involving sovereign parties, including States, state-owned entities, and international organizations before both domestic and international courts and tribunals. He has negotiated treaties for foreign governments in high-stakes cases.
   
   Pieter has experience with a variety of arbitration procedures, including those of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Additional Facility, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) (he is listed on its Panel of International Arbitrators), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and arbitrations based on the rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He regularly counsels clients in the drafting of arbitration clauses for international contracts. He teaches International Arbitration at Fordham University School of Law in New York City.
   
   A native of The Netherlands, Pieter was in private practice in Amsterdam before serving for nearly three years as a staff lawyer in the Registry of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations located in The Hague. He has been involved in some 20 ICJ cases between sovereign States and served as Senior Counsel in the most recent ICJ advisory proceeding along with the professors of international law of Oxford and Cambridge. He has also advised clients in pro bono matters arising under international law (such as genocide and other human rights issues).
   
   Prior to joining McDermott in 2007, Pieter was a senior member of the International Arbitration Group at White & Case LLP. The 2007 edition of the Chambers Global guide recognizes him in connection with Public International Law, receiving a first-tier ranking.
   
   Pieter received a Burton Award for Excellence in Legal Writing in 2005 and was selected by his peers as a New York "Super Lawyer" in the International and Alternative Dispute Resolution categories in 2006. He has served as a commentator on the trial of Saddam Hussein for FOX News TV and has been featured in the New York Law Journal, The Times (London), and the Wall Street Journal.
   
   Pieter earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School on a Fulbright grant. He earned his Dutch Civil Law degree and his Ph.D. degree (doctorate in international law) from Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is the author of three books and over 100 articles.
   
   Pieter is admitted to practice in New York and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (United Nations Committee member); the American Bar Association's Section of International Law (former Chair, International Courts Committee); the American Society of International Law (Executive Council member); the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Board of Reporters member); and the American and Dutch Branches of the International Law Association (Chair, Committee on Intergovernmental Settlement of Disputes).