Michael Reisman

W. Michael Reisman is the Myres McDougal Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 1965. He completed the degree of LLB at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and obtained his LLM and JSD from Yale Law School.

He has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Paris, and Geneva. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a former member of its Executive Council, a former member of the Advisory Committee on International Law of the Department of State, and a member of the Board of The Foreign Policy Association. He has been elected to the Institut de Droit International and was the president of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Bank for International Settlements. He was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, vicepPresident and honorary vice-president of the American Society of International Law, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law and vice-chairman of the Policy Sciences Center, Inc. He has served as arbitrator and counsel in many international investment cases and was presiding arbitrator in the OSPAR arbitration (Ireland v. UK) and arbitrator in the Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Dispute and in the Abyei (Sudan) Boundary Dispute.

Professor Reisman’s most recent books are The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century (2022); International Commercial Arbitration: Cases, Materials, and Notes on the Resolution of International Business Disputes (with W. L. Craig et al., 2015); and Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials and Commentary (with R. D. Bishop and J. R. Crawford, 2014).