Obituaries

Leading arbitrator, academic and International Court of Justice judge James Crawford has died aged 72.

01 June 2021

The arbitration community is mourning Emmanuel Gaillard, a totemic figure in the field, who has died suddenly aged 69, just weeks after leaving Shearman & Sterling to form a new firm and embark on a new chapter in his career.

16 April 2021

Members of the international arbitration community have paid tribute to Emmanuel Gaillard following his death aged 69.

16 April 2021

UPDATED: Leading international arbitration practitioner Emmanuel Gaillard has died suddenly at the age of 69.

02 April 2021

Piero Bernardini, who worked as an in-house lawyer at Italian oil and gas company Eni before forging a career as an international arbitrator and scholar, has died aged 83.

02 September 2020

Colleagues of Stephen Bond have paid tribute to him after he died on 29 May. Here are some of the tributes on which our obituary was based.

05 June 2020

Stephen Bond, who reformed the ICC International Court of Arbitration as its secretary general in the late 1980s and later worked as counsel and arbitrator at White & Case and Covington & Burling, has died aged 76.

05 June 2020

Derek Roebuck - a legal scholar who chronicled the history of arbitration - has died in his 85th year.

01 May 2020

Vinayak Pradhan, a leading arbitrator in South East Asia and former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, has died aged 72.

24 April 2020

A Chinese arbitration pioneer and GAR Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Tang Houzhi, has died aged 95.

17 April 2020