Associate Professor Benjamin Davis, a faculty member since 2003 and tenured since 2008, is a graduate of Harvard College (BA) and Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (JD-MBA) where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard International  Law Journal.  Professor Davis teaches in the areas of Contracts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Public International Law, and International Business Transactions.

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Davis was an Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law.  Between 1983 and 1986, he worked in Paris, France as a Development Consultant in West Africa, and as a Strategic Business Consultant with Mars and Co in Europe.  In 1986, he became the American Legal Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce where he supervised directly or indirectly over 5000 international commercial arbitration and mediation cases, made filings before courts around the world on behalf of the ICC, assisted with the drafting of arbitration laws in countries such as India and Sri Lanka, and led conferences in Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Asia.  In 1996, he was promoted to Director, Conference Programmes and Manager of the Institute of World Business Law where he organized training sessions on international contracts, dispute resolution, project finance, and electronic commerce.

He is the creator of fast-track international commercial arbitration and the creator of the International Competitions for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR) by which students from around the world competed in online negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation.  He is a Board Member of the Society of American Law Teachers, Council Member of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution, and Member of the ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline (Pipeline Council).  Until recently, he was a member and Subcommittee Chair for the Arbitration Competition for the ABA-Law Student Division Competitions Committee helping develop the arbitration moot court of the ABA.  He led the successful effort in the American Society of International Law to pass only the 8th resolution in its history entitled the ASIL Centennial Resolution on Laws of War and Detainee Treatment.  Professor Davis has given numerous presentations and speeches around the world. He is a contributing editor at Jurist and the SALTLAW Blog.  He has published dozens of articles on topics related to international and domestic arbitration, online and offline dispute resolution, and international law.

 

Publications

Online Influence Space(s) and Digital Influence Waves: In Honor of Charly, 25 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 201-246 (2010).

Introduction, Symposium:  Commemorating 1808:  Fighting for the Right to Dream, 40 U. Toledo L. Rev. 577 (2009)

No Third Class Processes for Foreigners, 103 Northwestern U. L. Rev. Colloquy 88 (2008).

Refluat Stercus: A Citizen’s View of Criminal Prosecution in U.S. domestic courts of High-Level U.S. Civilian Authority and Military Generals for Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, 23 St. John’s J. Legal Commentary 503 (2008)

A Citizen Observer’s View of the U.S. Approach to the War on Terrorism, 17 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 465 (2008)

Walking Along in the Mission, Introduction, Symposium on Enhancing Worldwide Understanding Through Online Dispute Resolution, 38 U. Toledo L. Rev. 1 (2006)

Keeping Our Honor Clean: A Response to Professor Yoo, 4 Chinese J. International L. 745 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005)
                                                                                                 
International Commercial Online and Offline Dispute Resolution: Addressing Primacism and Universalism, 4 Journal American Arbitration 79 (2005)

The Color Line in International Commercial Arbitration: An American Perspective, 14 Am. Rev. Int’L L. 461 ( Columbia University) (2004)

Alan Gaitenby, ICODR 2004: Enhancing Understanding, Asian Dispute Review in two parts (August 2004 and November 2004)

International Competitions for Online Dispute Resolution: The Shape of Things to Come, in Using Technology to Resolve Business Disputes, 2004 Special Supplement Bulletin of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration; Competitions internationales pour le reglement des litiges par Internet: pistes de reflexion pour l’avenir, in La technologie au service du reglement des differends commerciaux, 2004 Supplement special – Bulletin de la Cour internationale d’arbitrage de la CCI (September 2004 in French and English)

Disciplining ODR Prototypes: True Trust through True Independence, Essays on legal en (sic) technical aspects of Online Dispute Resolution, CEDIRE – Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution, Amsterdam, May 2004 reprinted in Hal Abramson, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, International Conflict Resolution-Consensual  ADR Processes, (West Group 2005).

ICODR 2003: Helping Humanity Progress, 20 (6) J. Int’l Arb.589-597, 2003

(Book Review) A Pioneer Looks at Online Dispute Resolution, reviewing C. Rule, Online Dispute Resolution for Business, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Journal (2003)

Revised Handbook on Preparing the Contract, Modular Learning System, International Trade Centre of UNCTAD and the WTO, Geneva, Switzerland (2003)

Une Magouille Planetaire: The UDRP is an International Scam, An Independent Assessment of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, 72 Miss. L. J. 815 (2002)

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