Jan Hendrik Dalhuisen

Guest Professor

jan.dalhuisen@novalaw.unl.pt
Biographical Note | Main Publications

Present Positions:

  • 1998 – present, Visiting Professor UC Berkeley USA
  • 2008- present, Professor of Transnational Financial Law, Universidade Catolica Lisbon Portugal
  • 1996- 2018 Professor of Law King’s College London. Emeritus since 2018

Academic Subjects: Transnational and Comparative Commercial and Financial Law; Financial Products and Financial Regulation; Bankruptcy and Reorganizations; International Public Law and Foreign Investment Law; International Commercial and Foreign Investment Arbitration; Legal History and Legal Theory

Other Present Activities

  • 2011- present, Member Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E.) The Hague
  • 1984 – present, International Commercial and Financial Arbitrator and Mediator

Arbitration Acted as advocate, sole arbitrator, chairman, and member of arbitration tribunals. These include LCIA, ICC, ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations (under Uncitral Arbitration rules and others) covering the whole of the commercial and financial practice including foreign investments. Official appointee Dutch Government List of ICSID arbitrators (2008-2014)

Mediation Also acted as mediator. Official appointee Dutch Government List of ICSID mediators (2008-2014)

Educator In charge of main course on International Commercial Arbitration at King´s College London (2006-2008), Catholic University Lisbon (since 2008), and initiator and contributor to the principal course on Foreign Investment Disputes at UC Berkeley (2008-2012).

Main Former Positions

  • 1986-1996 Investment Banker. Member of the Board (Executive Director) IBJ (now Mizuho) International Limited, the investment banking and investment management subsidiary of the Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho) in London, Group Advisor 1996/1997.

Responsibility for Planning, Corporate Development, and Legal Matters, European Organisation and Strategy, Corporate Governance. Member of the Audit Committee.

  • 1984 – 1986 Secretary General of the International Primary Market Association, London (this is the trade association of the Eurobond underwriting banks in Europe now the International Capital Market Association or ICMA)).

Setting-up and running the organisation. Instrumental in creating at the time of the Big Bang in the London the International Securities Self Regulatory Organisation (ISRO), later the FSA the main financial regulator in the UK.

  • 1982-1984 Head of the Law Department Gulf Oil Corporation Eastern Hemisphere, London. Member Management Committee (until the Merger with Chevron in 1984).

Area of responsibility: Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Responsibility for the general international commercial and corporate legal practice concerning up- and down stream oil and gas activities in Europe, Africa and Middle East. Special emphasis on governmental concessions and joint venture negotiations, environmental issues.

  • 1970-1982 Member Gulf Oil Corporation Eastern Hemisphere Law Department, London.

Special legal responsibilities for the non-English speaking areas in the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Zaire and Angola.

  • 1967-1970 Lawyer Head Office NV Philips Electronics (Corporate Secretariate Board) Eindhoven, The Netherlands;

International corporate, mergers and acquisitions activities, industrial property rights. Area of responsibility: Spain, Portugal, Latin-America.

  • 1966-1967 Teaching and Research Assistant University of California at Berkeley.

Commercial and Public International Law under Professor SA Riesenfeld

Other Academic Posts and Lectureships

Visiting Professor Jindal University New Delhi Spring 2020, Visiting Professor University Tel Aviv Spring 2017, Peter Ellinger Visiting Professor National University of Singapore Autumn 2016, Paul Harding Visiting Professor University of Hong Kong Spring 2008, Visiting Professor Yeditipe University Istanbul 2006, Visiting Professor Tsinghua University Beijing 2004-2005; Visiting Professor University New South Wales, Australia 2002-2004; Visiting Professor American University of Armenia, Yerevan 2003; Freehill Fellowship University New South Wales Sydney 2001; Professor of International Commercial and Financial Law University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 1990-1998 (part time); Visiting Professor Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) 1998; Visiting Professor University of Warsaw April 1997; Lecturer Pallas Program University of Nymwegen 1997-2002; Lecturer Asser Institute The Hague on Commercial and Financial Law for Eastern European Graduates 1991-1996, 2006/7.

Important Guest lectures: Peter Ellinger Public Lecture Singapore Sept 2016, Duke University Febr. 2008, Society of Comparative Legislation Annual Lecture London 2004, Amsterdam University June 2003, Duke University April 2002, Humboldt University Berlin June 1999, University of Buenos Aires and Belgrano University April 1999, Edinburg University April 1998, Hart Lecture Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London 1998.

Numerous other presentations and contributions to Congresses, Seminars and the like especially in the field of financial stability and regulation, financial products/services and commercial law and international commercial arbitration.

Other Past Activities

  • Off-Counsel to the law firm of Miranda and Associates in Lisbon Portugal 2008 – 2016
  • Member Advisory Board Linklaters Law Firm London 2010 – 2015
    ICSID Arbitrator and Mediator 2008 (Dutch Government appointee) – 2014
  • Member Arbitration Panel Securities and Futures Association (SFA) London 1988-2002
  • Founding Member City Disputes Panel London 1993
    Member Expert Group on Receivable Financing, UNCITRAL (UN) Vienna 1995
  • Member Advisory Board European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Eastern-Europe Secured Transactions Project 1993
  • Member Legal and Documentation Committee International Primary Market Association, London 1992-1996

Membership Academies

  • Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1985)

Editorial Boards

  • Journal of Banking Regulation
  • European Business Law Review (EBLR)

Professional Qualifications

  • Member of the New York Bar (1985)
  • Qualified for the practice of law in The Netherlands
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb, UK 1999-2016)

Education

  • Pre-university education in the Netherlands 1955 – 1961 (Gymnasium B: Classics and Sciences)
  • Certificate in Comparative Law, Luxembourg 1965
  • Master of Civil Law, University of Amsterdam 1966- Specialisation: Macro-Economics and Taxation
  • Certificate in Comparative Law, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1966
  • LLM, University of California at Berkeley 1967
  • PhD, University of Amsterdam 1968

Languages

English, Dutch (native), French & German (fluent), Spanish & Portuguese (current)

Main Books

  • Dalhuisen, “International Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, Hart Publishing Oxford sixth edition 2016
  • Dalhuisen, “International Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Vols. I and II“, Matthew Bender, New York, 1979-1986
  • Dalhuisen, “The New UK Securities Legislation and the EC 1992 Program“, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1989;
  • Dalhuisen, “Compositions in Bankruptcy, Leyden 1968“

Publications

  • 2021 – “Harmonisation of substantive insolvency law in the EU”, Maandblad voor Vermogensrecht (May 2021), SSRN Accepted Paper Series 
  • 2021 – “Business Law in Europe after Brexit. The Need for Legal Transnationalisation in the International Market Place and The Example of International Assignments” SSRN Working Paper Series.
  • 2019 – “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, 7th Edition, Three Volumes Hart Publishing Oxford
  • 2019 – “Three Time Bombs under International Arbitration. Where is it going?” Estudos em Homenagem a Agostinho Pereira de Miranda. SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2018 -“Wat is de toekomst voor het Nederlandse vermogensrecht in a globaliserende wereld en hoe moeten wij ons die toekomst voorstellen?” [What is the future  for the Netherlands civil law in a globalizing world and how we must imagine  it to be ?] NTVH (2018-3) SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2017 – “What Does the Transnationalisation of the Commercial Contract Mean? Is there a New Model and are there Minimum Standards?  Is there a Law and Economics Perspective?” Presentation Institute Advanced Legal Studies Oct. 2017: The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law reform.  SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2017 – “The Sources of Law and the Hierarchy of Norms in Transnational Commercial and Financial Law. The Issue of Intellectualisation and System Thinking and the Role of the Public Interest”. Presentation King’s College Phillip Jessup Seminar. SSRN Working  Paper Series
  • 2017 – “Recognition of civil and commercial judgments if the UK reaches “exit day” without a new arrangement in place” in Butterworth Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Nov. 2017 7 pages. SSRN Working Series
  • 2017 – “Recognition and Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Judgments in Europe after Brexit” SSRN Working paper series. 17 pages. SSRN Working paper series
  • 2017 – Bookreview M Goldby and L Mistelis (Eds) The Role of Arbitration in Shipping Law (OUP 2016), in 23 Journal of International Maritime Law, 67 (2017), 7 pages
  • 2016 – Bookreview JC Betancourt (Ed), Defining Issues in International Arbitration (OUP 2016), in 22 Journal of International Maritime Law, 422 (2016), SSRN Working paper series, 5 pages
  • 2016 – “How to Secure Rights and Interests in Transnational Professional Contracts?” CALCA St Marten Oct. 2016. SSRN Working paper series. 6 pages
  • 2016 – “The New Lex Mercatoria: An Emerging Challenge to Legal Systems in Cross-border Transactions.”  Openings Lecture Caribbean Academy for Law and Court Administration    Conference (CALCA) St Marten Oct. 2016. SSRN Working paper series. 36 pages
  • 2016 – “Micro and Macro Prudential Supervision: Can Financial Regulation be Destructive?”  Peter Ellinger Public Lecture NUS Singapore SSRN Working paper series
  • 2016 – “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, 6th Edition, Three Volumes Hart Publishing Oxford
  • 2015  – “Eggens and de Relevantie van Codificatie en Systeem Denken” (Professor Eggens and the Relevance of Codification and System thinking) Presentation University of Utrecht Eggens Dispute, see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2015 – “The Applicable Law in International Financial Disputes” in J Golden and Carolyn Lamm (eds), International Financial Disputes, Arbitration and Mediations (Oxford, 2015) 169
  • 2015  – “Globalisation and the Transnationalisation of Commercial and Financial Law”, 67 Rutgers ULR 19 (2015) and SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2015 -“The Management of Systemic Risk from a Legal Perspective”, in M Andenas and G Deipenbrock (Eds) Regulating and Supervising European Financial Markets 365 (Springer 2016)  (28 pages), see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2014 – “The Applicable Law in International Financial Disputes and the Status, Powers and Reasoning of International Financial Arbitrators”, see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2014 – “The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Response Answer to the EU Questionaire of March 2014” see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2014 – “Wat is Modern Goederenrecht” (What is Modern Property Law) Schoordijk Lecture Tilburg, see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2014 – “The Reasoning of International Arbitrators”, see SSRN Working Paper Series   
  • 2013 – “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, 5th Edition, Three Volumes Hart Publishing Oxford
  • 2013 – Together with Professor Andrew T Guzman “Expropriatory and Non-Expropriatory Takings Under International Investment Law” forthcoming see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2013 Together with Professor Andrew T Guzman “The Law Applicable to Foreign Investment Disputes” forthcoming see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2013 – “Some Realism about a Common European Sales Law” 24 European Business Law Review 299 (EBLR 2013) see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2012 – “Arbitration in International Finance. The Emergence of P.R.I.M.E.” in  2 Estudos em Homenagem a  Miguel Galvao Teles, 99 (18 pages) see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2012 – Opinio Juris 5 blogs on the Transnationalisation of Private Law
  • 2012 – Pelos Olhos dos Outros, Colem in ” i” newspaper, Portugal, 13 weeks Comment  on the financial crisis.
  • 2011 – “No Centro da Tempestade” [In the Centre of the Storm], Foreign Policy/Edicao FP Portugal (6 pages)
  • 2011 – Presentation to EU Commission on Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR), published in SSRN Working Paper Series (64 pages) see SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2010 – “International Arbitrators as Equity Judges”, in Becker, Dolzer, Waibel, Making Transnational Law Works in the Global Economy, Festschrift Detlev Vagts, 510 (21 pages), see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2010 – “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, Fourth Edition, Three Volumes Hart Publishing Oxford
  • 2009- “What could the Selection by the Parties of English Law in a Civil Law Contract in Commerce and Finance Truly Mean?”, in Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve, Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law (15 pages), see  SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2008 – “Custom and its Revival in Transnational Private Law”, 18 Duke J Comp and Intn´l Law, 339 (2008) (31 pages), see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2008 – “The Operation of the International Commercial and Financial Legal Order: The Lex Mercatoria and its Application – Moving from the Theories of Legal Positivism and Formalism to the Practicalities of Legal Pluralism and Dynamism”, 19 EBLR 985 (2008) (65pages)
  • 2007 – “Financial Services, Products, Risk and Regulation in Europe after the EU 1998 Action Plan and Basle II”, 18 EBLR 819 (2007) (172 pages)
  • 2007 – “Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, Third edition, Hart Publishing Oxford (1320 pages)
  • 2006 – “The Case for an International Commercial Court”, Festschrift Norbert Horn, 893 (2006) (16 pages), see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2006 – “Legal Orders and their Manifestation: The Operation of the International Commercial Legal Order and its Lex Mercatoria”, in 24 Berkeley Journal of International Law, 129 (2006) (62 pages), see also SSRN Working Paper Series
  • 2004 – Book review Herbert Kronke, Capital Markets and the Conflict of Laws, Receuil des Cours 2000, Vol 286, 54 AJCL 504 (2004) (6 pages)
  • 2004 – “Dalhuisen on International Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, Second edition, Hart Publishing Oxford (1109 pages)
  • 2003 – “Towards a Single European Capital Market and a Workable System of Regulation” in M Andenas and Y Avgerinos (Eds) Financial Markets in Europe: Towards a Single Regulator?  (2003), 35 (39 pages)
  • 2003 -“Zekerheid in Roerende Zaken en Rechten” (Security Interests in Chattels and Intangible Assets), Report Netherlands Association for Commercial Lawyers (in Dutch, 84 pages).
  • 2003 – “Financial Liberalization and Re-regulation” in M Andenas and W-H Roth (Eds):  Services and Free Movement in EU Law (2001), 279 (15 pages).
  • 2002 – “Home and Host Country Regulatory Control of Transborder Banking Services in the EU“, in Guido Alpa and Francesco Capriglione (Eds), Diretto Bancario Comunitario, 411 (Turin 2002) (20 pages)
  • 2002 – “De Europese en Amerikaanse Rechtscultuur” (The European and American Legal Culture) in WPNR 2002 (in Dutch, 6 pages)
  • 2002 – Bookreview Benjamin Geva, Bank Collections and Payment Transactions – A Comparative Legal Analysis, 51 Int.’l & Comp. LQ 745 (2002) (2 pages)
  • 2001 – “European Private Law: Moving From a Closed to an Open System of Proprietary Rights“, 5 Edinburgh LR, Issue 3 Sept. 2001 (24 pages)
  • 2000 – “Dalhuisen on International Commercial, Financial and Trade Law“, Hart Publishing Oxford (846 pages)
  • 2000 – “Domestic Contract Laws,Uniform International Contract Law and International Contract Law Principles”.  International Sales and Contractual Agency, European Business Law Review (116 pages)
  • 2000 – Bookreview CE du Perron, Overeenkomst en Derden (Privity of Contract), RM Themis, The Netherlands (4 pages)
  • 1999 – “Liberalisation and Re-regulation of Cross Border Financial Services.  The Situation in the EU and WTO/GATS“, European Business Law Review (68 pages)
  • 1999 -Book Review MW Hesselink, De redelijkheid en billijkheid in het Europese privaatrecht [Good Faith in the European Private Law], RM Themis, The Netherlands  (6 pages)
  • 1999 -“In Memoriam Professor Stefan Albrecht Riesenfeld (1908-1999)” Presentation International Association of Boalt Hall Alumni, Milan (6 pages), published in Newsletter German American Lawyers Association
  • 1998 -“De Juridische Studie in Nederland Anno 1992” [The study of the Law in the Netherlands in 1998] in Iust Utrecht The Netherlands (6 pages)
  • 1998 – “International Law Aspects of Modern Financial Products“, Hart Lecture, European Business Law Review 1998 (9 pages)
  • 1998 – “Modern Insolventierecht” [Modern Insolvency Law], Nederlandse Vereniging van  Rechtsvergelijking  (10 pages)
  • 1998 – “The Dutch and the Dutch-Portuguese War 1657-1662“, in Yearbook Anglo-Portuguese  Historical Society, Lisbon (44 pages)
  • 1998 – “Security and Ownership Based Funding Techniques“, European Business Law Review 1998 (46 pages)
  • 1998 – “Conditional Sales and Modern Financial Products“, in A. Hartkamp et al. (Ed), Towards a  European Civil Code II (19 pages)
  • 1998 – “Assignments of Receivables in the World of Modern Finance” Dutch Report International Academy of Comparative Law (AIDC), Bristol Meeting 1998 (11 pages)
  • 1997 – “The Contributory Role of Banks in Financial Crises“, European Business Law Review 1998 (8 pages)
  • 1997 – “The Conditional Sale is Alive and Well, in Emerging Financial Markets and Secured Transactions“, International Economic Development Law, Vol VI, Kluwer The Hague/Boston (61 pages)
  • 1996 – “The New Draft EU Bankruptcy Convention“, in NTBR, Sept. 1996 (in Dutch 7 pages)
  • 1995 – “The Arbitrability of Competition Issues“, in Arbitration International, Vol. 11 (17 pages)
  • 1994 – “The Assignment of Claims in Dutch Private International Law“, in Comparability and  Valuation, Essays on Comparative Law, Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration in Honour of  Professor Dr. D. Kokkini- Iatridu, Martinus Nijhoff,  The Hague, Netherlands (16 pages)
  • 1994 – “The Unidroit Convention on International Financial Leasing“, in Molengrafica 1994 Lelystad (24 pages)
  • 1994 – “International Aspects of Secured Transactions and Finance Sales involving Movable and Intangible Property“, in Molengrafica 1994, Lelystad, Netherlands (41 pages)
  • 1994 – “Security in Movable and Intangible Property.  Finance Sales, Future Interests and Trusts“, in Towards a European Civil Code Hartkamp Ed.), Nijmegen, Netherlands (29 pages)
  • 1993 – Book review A Voute, Workersparticipation, in WPNR 1993 (in Dutch 4 pages)
  • 1992 – Book review F Graaf, Euromarket Finance, in WPNR 1992 (in Dutch 7 pages)
  • 1992 – Book review R Bertrams, Bankguarantees, in WPNR 1992 (in Dutch 6 pages)
  • 1991 -“Wat is vreemd recht?” (What is Foreign Law?).  Inaugural lecture Utrecht 1991 (in Dutch  30 pages)
  • 1990 – “Cross Border Insolvency in The Netherlands“, Report International Academy of  Comparative Law  (AIDC)(17 pages)
  • 1989 – “The New UK Securities Legislation and the EC 1992 Program“, Royal Netherlands Academy  of Arts and Sciences (158 pages)
  • 1987 – Book Review, International Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation  Agreements in Journal  of Energy and Natural Resources Law (UK)
  • 1986 – “Modern Insolventierecht“, paper on international insolvency law for the Netherlands  Association of Comparative Law (NVRvgl. in Dutch, 85 pages)
  • 1979-86 – “Dalhuisen on International Insolvency and Bankruptcy“, Matthew Bender, USA Vols. I and II, loose leaf (1500 pages)
  • 1983 – “Creditors’ Remedies and the Conflict of Laws in the European Communities“in Festschrift for  Professor S.A.Riesenfeld (29 pages)
  • 1982 – “Creditors’ Remedies under the EEC Full Faith and Credit Treaty” in WPNR (in    Dutch 12 pages)
  • 1979 – “Algemene Voorwaarden“, paper on Standard Conditions for the Netherlands Lawyers’  Association (in Dutch NJV Netherlands, 89 pages)
  • 1978 – “Het Herstatt Accoord“, in WPNR (in Dutch 9 pages)
  • 1976  -“Hardship Clause“, NJB (in Dutch 11 pages)
  • 1975 – “Changed Circumstances” in Festschrift for Professor I. Kisch (28 pages)
  • 1974 – “Development of Bankruptcy in Europe and USA“, Publication American Bar Association  (54 pages)
  • 1970 – “Recognition and Execution of Foreign Bankruptcies in the EEC Countries and USA”, Themis (in Dutch, 45 pages)
  • 1969 – Book Review, American Journal Comp. Law, 1969 (p. 673)
  • 1968 – “Compositions in Bankruptcy“, Dissertation Amsterdam (160 pages)
  • 1967 – Book Review, American Journal Comp. Law, 1967 (p. 581)
  • 1965 – “The Crown and the Exemption from Taxation“, Weekblad Fiscaalrecht (in Dutch, 10 pages)

 

 

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