S.I. Strong

• International commercial arbitration
• International litigation
• Complex civil procedure
• English law
• Comparative law
• Trusts and estates

S.I. Strong is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, having also taught jurisprudence and British constitutional, contract and tort law at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and international commercial arbitration at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Professor Strong's primary teaching assignments at Missouri are International Commercial Arbitration, Transnational Litigation, Comparative Law, Lawyering and Estates & Trusts.

Professor Strong's research primarily involves international dispute resolution, comparative law and jurisprudence. She has had over 60 books, articles and book reviews published in Europe and the Americas, and her scholarly work has not only been cited as authority in arbitral awards rendered under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in papers submitted to the United States Supreme Court, but has also won accolades from a variety of international organizations.

In addition to her experience as a legal academic, Professor Strong has an extensive background as a practicing lawyer qualified in New York and Illinois and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Prior to joining the faculty at Missouri, Professor Strong was an associate in the New York and London offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Counsel at Baker & McKenzie LLP. During her years in practice, she handled complex commercial disputes involving both private parties and state and other public entities in U.S. and English courts. She also represented clients in bilateral and multilateral arbitrations seated in a wide variety of jurisdictions. As counsel, she worked on one of the largest ICC arbitrations in history and handled arbitral matters proceeding under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the American Arbitration Association (AAA), as well as ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

Professor Strong also serves as an arbitrator and mediator, having handled over a dozen cases as sole, presiding or party-appointed neutral, including multimillion dollar disputes and multiparty disputes involving anywhere from three to twenty-five parties. She is listed on the national and international rosters of various arbitral organizations, including the AAA Commercial Arbitration Panel, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the ICC, the LCIA and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She is also listed as a mediator with the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Art and Cultural Heritage Mediation Program (administered jointly by WIPO and ICOM), Missouri federal courts and other organizations.

Professor Strong has provided expert assistance to numerous state agencies, including the U.S. Federal Judicial Center, where she authored a guide on international commercial arbitration for federal judges; the United Kingdom Ministry of Justice, where she served as a national rapporteur in a study on alternative dispute resolution; the Council of Europe; and the European Commission. Professor Strong speaks regularly to professional and academic audiences in Europe and the Americas on a variety of topics relating to international dispute resolution.

Professor Strong is currently serving as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow in Washington, D.C., having previously acted as the Henry G. Schermers Fellow at The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HIIL) in The Netherlands and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Professor Strong is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves on the Executive Committee of the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), where she is also a Fellow. Professor Strong is active in numerous other professional organizations, including the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Society of International Law (ASIL), ArbitralWomen, the International Bar Association (IBA) and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).

Professor Strong received a Ph.D. in law from the University of Cambridge, where she won the Yorke Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation; a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford; a J.D. from Duke University School of Law; a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California; and a B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Davis. While at Duke, she served as Editor in Chief of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. She is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in both New York and Illinois, as well as the United States Supreme Court, and as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Professor Strong is proficient in Spanish and is a member of the Order of the Coif.

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