Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp is Associate Professor of Law at LSE's Department of Law, where his research and teaching focuses on contracts, international transactions, international arbitration, investment treaty law, conflict of laws and comparative law.

Prior to joining LSE in 2008, Jan was an assistant professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris (2004-2008), and before that a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg (1998-2004). He is admitted to legal practice in Germany and obtained his PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2004.

Jan has advised the European Parliament on several occasions on the intersection between investment treaty law and EU law as well as the UK Government on matters of negotiating dispute resolution mechanisms with the EU in the context of Brexit. He is a member of the Governing Body for Dispute Resolution Services of the International Chamber of Commerce and regularly acts as an arbitrator and expert in commercial disputes. He works and publishes in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Expertise: international arbitration; trade agreements; international investment law; investor-state-dispute settlement (ISDS); commercial contracts; international transactions; EU law; international law; comparative law

Books

• Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (1st edn, OUP 2009) (co-edited with S. Vogenauer)

• International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America – Regulation and Practice in the MERCOSUR and the Associated Countries (Oxford University Press/Oceana, 2005) 691pp

Articles

• 'Overriding Mandatory Laws in International Arbitration' (2018) 67(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 903-930
• 'Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals' (with Lauge Poulsen), in European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016 (Bungenberg et al eds, Springer 2016), pp. 527-541. [link to underlying policy paper]
• 'Critically Thinking International Arbitration in Context' in The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration (Brekoulakis et al eds, Kluwer 2016) 401-406
• 'Investment treaty law and the fear for sovereignty: transnational challenges and solutions' Modern Law Review (2015) 78 (5) pp.793-825
• 'Who is Afraid of Investor-State Arbitration? Or Comparative Law?' LSE Law: Policy Briefing Papers 4/2014
• 'Financial Responsibility in European International Investment Policy' (2014) 63:2 International and Comparative Law Quarterly pp.449-476
• 'European policy space in international investment law' ICSID Review 2012, 27(2), 416-431
• 'Lord Mustill and the courts of tennis - Dallah v Pakistan in England, France and Utopia' M.L.R. 2012, 75(4), 639-654.
• ‘Investment Protection and EU Law: The Intra- and Extra-EU Dimension of the Energy Charter Treaty’ (2012) 15 (1) Journal of International Economic Law 85-109
• 'The Review of Arbitrator’s Interpretation of International Contracts – Transnational Law as a Dangerous Short-Cut. Note regarding Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision 4A_240/2009' (2011) 29:2 ASA Bulletin 145-158
• 'Les sanctions pour non exécution du contrat dans les Principes UNIDROIT' in: G. Keutgen (ed.), Les Principes UNIDROIT relatifs aux contrats de commerce international et l'arbitrage (Bruylant 2011) pp.125-143
• 'The Future of the BITs of the European Member States After Lisbon' (2011) 29:1 ASA Bulletin 212-223
• 'The Impact of Internationally Mandatory Laws on the Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements' (2009) 3 World Arbitration and Mediation Review 91-120
• 'Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche'; 'Ausstrahlung des europäischen Privatrechts in lateinamerikanische Rechtsordnungen'; 'UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts' in: J. Basedow / K. Hopt / R. Zimmermann (eds) Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts (Mohr Siebeck 2009)
• 'Eingriffsnormen und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: Ein praktischer Versuch' (2009) 73Rabels Zeitschrift für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht 818-841
• 'Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards', in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max-Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• 'Interdependência entre os Procedimentos de Anulação e de Execução (II): Proposta de reforma da Lei de Arbitragem' [Interdependency between setting aside and enforcement procedures (II): A reform proposal for the Brazilian law on arbitration], (2009) 19 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem
• 'Development of Comparative Law in Latin America' in: M. Reimann & R. Zimmermann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press 2006) 261-301
• 'The UN Security Council's Incapacity of Coping with Conflict-Related Economic Interests' (2005) 37 Studies in Transnational Legal Policy 108-123
• 'O Brasil e as disputas com investidores estrangeiros' [Brazil and the disputes with foreign investors], in: R. Di Sena Jr. & M.T. Costa Souza Cherem (eds.), Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento - Uma Perspectiva Brasileira (São Paulo/Brazil, Saraiva 2004) 156-187 [shorter French version in: S. Monclaire / J.F. Deluchey (eds.), Gouverner l'intégration : les politiques nationale et internationale du Brésil de Lula (Paris, Pepper 2006) available here]
• 'Interdependência entre os Processos de Anulação e de Execução: Estudo Comparativo com Foco na Legislação Brasileira e Alemã' [Interdependency between setting aside and enforcement proceedings: A comparative study focusing on Brazilian and German law], (2004) 1 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem 96-104
• 'Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross Country Comparison' (with K. Pistor, Y. Keenan, M. West), (2002) 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 791-871