Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law
Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Insurance, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Maritime Law, Transport
Jurisdiction:
Netherlands, United States
Publications
2025 "Facilitating Settlements by an Arbitral Tribunal - a best practice from Continental Europe", Texas Bar Global Law Review
2024 "MUR Shipping - A Comparative Perspective", Lloyd's journal for Trade & Shipping
2023 "The exclusive competence of the Court of Rotterdam in Maritime Cases", Journal for Transport Law
2022 “Internationalizing Domestic Courts in Europe: Procedure, Function, Organization”, chapter in “International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication” by Cambridge University Press
2019 The guide to Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards, Qatar chapter, Global Arbitration Review 2019 Panelist “Multi-Tier Dispute Resolution Clauses”, LegalPlus Qatar Summit
2018 ADR in Qatar - A New Law, A New Regional Seat of Choice, and a New Era, Lexis Middle East Law
Teaching
NAI Course on Arbitrator Hearing Skills - June 2025
HMAA Arbitrator Course - April 2025
Education
Erasmus School of Law, the Netherlands
University of Houston, Law Center
Other Information
In addition to being an independent arbitrator, I also still act as substitute judge at the Court of Rotterdam and the Netherlands Commercial Court. I furthermore provide pro bono mediation services in Texas. I truly appreciate to act as a neutral and be in the position to help people and companies to resolve their disputes. So let me help you resolve yours.
