Dr Fabricio Fortese

Bachelor of Law (Buenos Aires University); LLM in International & Comparative Dispute Resolution (Queen Mary, University of London); LLM in International Commercial Arbitration Law (Stockholm University); PhD in International Arbitration Law (Stockholm University)

I am a Fellow Research in Law at the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), Faculty of Law, Oxford University. I am also a Fellow and Tutor at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Education & Training Committee of Africa in the Moot. I have also served as the Director of Mooting Activities at the Department of Law, Stockholm University, and its representative board member in the Association for the Organization of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. 

As a practising lawyer, I have experience in various forms of ADR for cross-border commercial and investment disputes. As an academic and legal consultant, I have been involved in international law development projects and capacity-building activities on issues of international commercial law and dispute resolution.

My current research focuses on the intricacies of legal interpretation and reasoning and the harmonisation and unification of international arbitration laws. It examines the role of national courts in post-arbitral awards disputes and the extent of judicial review of arbitral decisions on jurisdiction under the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law and the English Arbitration Act.

My recent book, Early Determination of Arbitral Jurisdiction (Kluwer Law International, 2024), examines the pivotal issue of whether national courts should (or could) conclusively settle jurisdictional disputes before or after arbitrators have determined that matter. Other notable publications include the books Arbitration in Argentina (Kluwer Law International, 2020) and Finances in International Arbitration: Liber Amicorum Patricia Shaughnessy (Kluwer Law International, 2019).