Christopher Bisping, lawyer, is an associate professor at Warwick School of Law. Prior to that, he has taught at the University of Leicester for several years as well as at Warwick School of Law. Christopher Bisping has worked as a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international private law in Hamburg and he was a member of the “Study Group on a European Civil Code”.

Christopher Bisping is a member of our FFA-Team since 2012. He is responsible for the course “English Vocabulary for Law: Legal Research” in our first semester.

“As a German jurist who is teaching and doing research abroad, I want to give future jurists the opportunity to gain first experiences in the dealing with foreign law. Moreover, to think “outside the box” contributes to a better understanding of the own system. The collaboration with the highly-motivated students of the FFA is great fun to me and it surprises me every time to see the progress that the students achieve in a short period of time.”

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

• Christopher Bisping (2012) 'Consumer Protection and Overriding Mandatory Rules in the new Rome I Regulation' in European Consumer Protection Theory and Practice, 239 - 256, Editors: James Devenneyand Mel Kenny, Cambridge: CUP
• Christopher Bisping (2012) 'Conquering the Legal World ? The Use of English in Foreign Courts' European Review Of Private Law 20 (2), 541 - 570
• Christopher Bisping (2011) 'The Case Against Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 in Credit Card Transactions' Journal Of Business Law (5), 457 - 474
• Christopher Bisping (2011) 'Turbulence Ahead ? of Volcanic Ash, Frustration and EC Passenger Rights' Lloyds Maritime & Commercial L aw Quarterly (4), 546 - 564
• Christopher Bisping (2012) 'Avoid the Statutist Trap: The International Scope of the Consumer Credit Act 1974' Journal of Private International Law 8 (1), 35 - 62

Keith Calhoun-Senghor, attorney at law (Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia) and solicitor in England and Wales, is a freelance American lawyer and consultant in the fields of corporate law and international private law for U.S., German and global firms in Munich. He has worked as senior counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright in Munich for seven years beforehand. He entered the law office after having practised as an in-house general counsel and freelance attorney in corporate and international private law for American and German industry and technology companies for nearly three decades. Calhoun-Senghor has worked for the U.S. government (department of commerce) in the sector of satellite and space politics as well.

Keith Calhoun-Senghor studied at Harvard Law School as well as at Standford University. Before having started his legal studies, he had been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bonn. He is fluent in English (first language) and German.

Keith Calhoun-Senghor is a lecturer at our FFA-programme since 2012. He teaches the courses “International Commercial Law” (3. semester), “Civil Litigation in the U.S.” as well as “Constitutional Law in the U.S.” (both 2. semester).

Selected publications and lectures:

• Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Co-author, "Zusammenfassung des 2009 U.S. Konjunkturgesetzes: Geschäftsmöglichkeiten für deutsche Firmen/A Summary of the 2009 U.S. Recovery Act: Business Opportunities for German Firms," published in German and English in the German-American Chamber of Commerce Newsletter, March 2009
• Keith Calhoun-Senghor, "An Overview of Egypt's Anti-Money Laundering Law and Regulations," Complinet.com, 2008 (submitted)
• Keith Calhoun-Senghor,"An Overview of Egypt's Law Establishing Economic Courts," GAT Magazine, 2008 (submitted)
• Keith Calhoun-Senghor, "Implementing a Phased and Integrated Strategy Toward Space," Cosmos Club Journal, Fall 2004
• Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Editor, “Trends in Commercial Space”, online publication providing analysis of emerging business areas and commercial space trends, 1996 – 1999
• "The U.S. Legal System and the Common Law: A Legal System as a Precursor to National Success," Guest lecturer, University of New York in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2011
• "Germany's View of the U.S.: A U.S. Business Lawyer's Perspective from Munich," Guest lecturer, Worrell Honors Program for Study Abroad, Virginia Intermont College, Munich, Germany, June 2011
• "Business Opportunities Under the U.S. Recovery Act: How to Avoid Pitfalls/Geschäftsmöglichkeiten im Rahmen des U.S. Konjunkturprograms: Wie sich Juristische Fallstricke vermeiden Lassen," Speech in German at U.S. Energy Market Seminar, Erneuerbare Energien, IHK Dresden und Wirtschaftsföderung Sachsen, Dresden, Germany, October 2010
• "Insurance and Consumer Protection Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act/Versicherungs- und Verbraucherschutzbestimmungen des Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform und Verbraucherschutzgesetz," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. web seminar presentation in German, September 2010
• "Provisions of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act as they Relate to German Music Instrument Manufacturers/Bestimmungen des U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Gesetzes in Bezug auf deutsche Musikinstrumente," Speech in German to the Federal Organization of Music Instrument Manufacturers/Bundesverband der deutschen Musikinstrumenthersteller, Nürnberg, Germany, August 2010
• "Doing Successful Business in the U.S.A.: How to Avoid Traps – Concluding Successful Agreements with U.S. Partners/Erfolgreiche Geschäfte in den USA: Wie sich Fallstricke vermeiden lassen - Erfolgreiche Verträge mit U.S. Partnern," Fulbright & Jaworski on-line web seminar presentation in German, May 2010
• "The Buy American Provisions and Financial Incentives in the U.S. Recovery Act; Business Opportunities under the U.S. Recovery Act: Infrastructure, Renewable Energy and More/Die 'Buy American' Bestimmungen und Finanzielle Anreize im amerikanischen Konjunkturpaket," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. web seminar presentation in German, March 2010
• "Green Public Private Partnerships - A Transatlantic Market of Ideas: The U.S. Approach - Incentives for Voluntary Action," Munich, Germany 2009

Amy Cohen Kläsener, attorney at law (New York), is partner at Dentons LLP in Frankfurt. Her practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, civil procedure and compliance. Amy Cohen Kläsener studied at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, at Columbia College as well as at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She has taken the position of one of our FFA lecturers since 2012. She lectures the course “Civil Litigation in the U.S.” in the second semester.

Selected publications and lectures:  

• Amy Cohen Kläsener/Alexander Dolgorukow, "Die Überarbeitung der IBA-Regeln zur Beweisaufnahme in der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit", SchiedsVZ, 2010
• Amy Cohen Kläsener,"Good Faith in the 2010 IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration", IALR, 2010
• Amy Cohen Kläsener, "Options for Approaching Privilege in International Arbitration", Dossiers ICC Institute of World Business Law, Written Evidence and Discovery in International Arbitration: New Issues and Tendencies, 2009
• Amy Cohen Kläsener/Richard H. Kreindler/Christina Cathey Schütz, "Arbitration in Germany", Business Laws of Germany, 2009
• "Evidentiary Treatment of Electronic Documents in IP Arbitration", World Arbitration Forum for Intellectual Property, 24. November 2010
• Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung, DAJV-Fachgruppentag, 24. April 2010 "The Revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration", AIJA Seminar on Internal Arbitration, 25. August 2009

Courtney Lotfi is counsel at Dentons in Frankfurt where she focuses her practice on international dispute resolution and complex arbitration. She has represented clients in a variety of industries including energy (oil and gas), construction and industrial engineering, and corporate disputes applying both civil and common laws in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia.

Ms. Lotfi has appeared in more than 30 international arbitration proceedings as counsel under various rules including ICC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, UNCITRAL, AAA, SIAC, DIA and in ad hoc proceedings. She is a member of the AAA, ICDR, and VIAC roster of arbitrators. Prior to joining Dentons, Ms. Lotfi previously worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Vienna and at Hogan Lovells in Munich.

Ms. Lotfi obtained her BA from Franklin College in Switzerland with highest distinction where she studied International Relations, Economics and History. She obtained her JD cum laude in 2006 from Pace University School of Law. During her studies there she was a research assistant, the CISG Book Editor of the Pace International Law Review, and a member of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team.

Courtney Lotfi is admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Virginia and is a member of the Virginia Bar Association.

Since the winter semester 2018/19, Ms. Lotfi has taken over parts of the FFA second semester course “Civil Litigation in the U.S.”.

Articles

• “Document Production in International Arbitration,” Lexis Nexis Practice Note, 2019 (forthcoming)
• “Financial Sector Dispute Resolution in a Post-Brexit World,” 34/1 J.I.B.L.R. 1, 2019, together with M. Huertas
• “Conflicting Document Production Laws May Result in International Discovery Restrictions,” 8/1 INFO. L.J. 4, December 2016
• “Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership,” 22 Arb. Watch 1, 4, 2014
• “Amendment of the Austrian Arbitration Law,” 22 Arb. Watch 1, 4, 2014
• Co-author, “Procedural and Institutional Rule Changes Set to Further Advance Austrian Presence in International Arbitration,” 19/1 Arb. News 49, together with G. Horvath

Books

• “Documentary Evidence and Document Production in International Arbitration,” 11/4 Transnat’l Disp. Mgmt, 2014, Yearbook on International Arbitration, Vol. IV (Marianne Roth & Michael Geistlinger eds., 2015)
• “Introduction to Arbitration under the US System,” in Angloamerikanische Rechtssprache 193 (Franz J. Heidinger & Andrea Hubalek eds., 2013), together with J. Power