January 30, 2023
Marike Paulsson is the Director of the University of Miami School of Law’s International Arbitration Institute and a Lecturer in Law. Marike has over fourteen years of practice and academic experience in public international law, international arbitration, and cross-border litigation. She teaches in the US, the Middle East, India, Latin America, and Europe and publishes extensively in the field of international arbitration and public international law. She is a leading expert on the 1958 U.N. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (The New York Convention). She has assisted in the drafting of numerous expert opinions on the Convention and acts as an expert witness herself. She has co-authored and edited the ICCA Guide on the New York Convention (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) and co-founded the ICCA NYC Roadshow for the purposes of which she familiarizes judges around the world with the application of the Convention in the national space. She is the author of “The 1958 New York Convention in Action”. She is the vice president for North America of the Global Legal Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution Centre of the University of Sao Paolo. Marike, a Dutch national, speaks five languages and has degrees from Leiden University, University of Miami, and Sciences-Po Paris, and is a member (and past member) of the Dutch, Bahraini and Belgian Bar and is a Foreign Legal Consultant in the US.
