Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law and Arbitration at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Qatar and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) of the University of London. Pietro Ortolani is an Assistant Professor at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. He specializes in international arbitration and transnational dispute resolution. Before joining Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, a Research Associate at the Università di Pisa and a Law Research Associate at Queen Mary, University of London. Ortolani has acted as an expert for the European Parliament and the European Commission and in 2016 won the James Crawford Prize Shahla Ali is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean (International) at The University of Hong Kong. Manuel A. Gómez is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of International and Graduate Studies at Florida International University College of Law. Michael Polkinghorne is a dual-qualified lawyer at White & Case LLP, Paris, where he heads the office's arbitration group. He is also joint-head of the firm's oil and gas practice, as well as pro bono leader of the firm's Paris office.