This event was organised in honour of Prof Dr Maxi Scherer, as the dedicatees of the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Programme (ROAP) EMEA 2024. The event took place on 3 July 2024 and was moderated by the ROAP EMEA Co-Convenors, Camilla Gambarini and Alaistair Livesey.
About Prof Dr Maxi Scherer
Maxi Scherer has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration in both civil and common law systems. She is admitted to the bar in Paris (France) and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Maxi has represented clients and served as arbitrator or legal expert in more than 140 commercial and investor-State arbitrations. Her arbitrations regularly involve States, concern multi-billion amounts in dispute and are conducted in English, French and German.
Regularly ranked by Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 etc. as a leading arbitration practitioner, she has been identified amongst the top 20 “Global Elite Thought Leaders” and described by peers as “one of the greatest and most complete arbitrators,” and “one of the very best in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings.” She has received the 2023 GAR Award for “Best Prepared Arbitrator”.
Maxi is a Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Co-Chair of the IBA Subcommittee on Rules and Guidelines and holds many other public appointments and commissions of trust, including being a member of the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).
Maxi is a tenured Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she holds the Chair for International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law. She is the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration and publishes extensively in the field. She is also co-founder ArbBoutique.
In 2018, Maxi received the GAR Award for Best Speech or Lecture for her keynote on artificial intelligence and the transformation of decision-making.
