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51����’s School of Law is delighted to announce two new adjunct professors of practice specialising in international commercial arbitration.

Klaus Reichert SC, based at Brick Court Chambers in London, has substantial experience in dealing with international disputes across a broad spectrum of complex subject matters, industries and governing laws (both common law and civil law) involving sovereign states and commercial parties from all over the World. He has particular experience as an arbitrator arising from cases administered by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). He has sat in arbitrations on three-member tribunals on multiple occasions in Paris, London, New York, Geneva, The Hague, Singapore and Washington DC. He has a significant focus on commercial cases located in the United States and is one of the few non-Americans admitted as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (USA). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was an arbitrator with the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal for many years. He has served on two occasions (2017 and 2023) as the Scholar-in-Residence at New York University School of Law Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. In 2020 he was designated by the Government of Ireland to the ICSID panel of Conciliators. Mr Reichert has been Appointed Adjunct Professor of Practice at the School of Law.

Barrister-at-Law and Arbitrator at The Law 51���� in the Four Courts, Dublin. Mr Kelly has extensive experience as an arbitrator, having recently been appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a Fellow at The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Member of the Council of the Bar of Ireland. Mr Kelly is also a member of the Council of Kings Inn's, a member of the ICDR panel of International Commercial Arbitrators, the ICC National Committee, the GAA's Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA), the FAI Disciplinary Panel, and the Mediation Council Shadow Group. He is a former member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal. Mr Kelly has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Law.

These appointments coincide with the introduction, for Masters students, of a valuable new module in Arbitration Law and Procedure. 

Welcoming the appointments of Mr Reichert and Mr Kelly, Head of the School of Law, Professor Lucy-Ann Buckley said: “UL School of Law’s Adjunct Professor positions are designed to ensure the appointment of distinguished individuals who will contribute significantly to the University. The use of arbitration as a means of dispute resolution has been growing over the last number of decades as it is often a less expensive and faster method of dispute resolution than litigation. Mr Reichert and Mr Kelly are international leaders in the field of arbitration and the School of Law is delighted that they will be able to share their huge expertise in this very important area with our students”.