LLM Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (Sorbonne Law School) (France)
PhD in Law, Angers University (France)
Member of the California bar, member of the Paris bar
Associate Director, Visiting Professor,
LLM in International Arbitration & Dispute Settlement LLM,
Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing,
Ph.D in Law, Attorney at Law, Arbitrator
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Research Interests
- International Arbitration
- International Investment Law
- Comparative Law of Obligations
Dr. Jane Willems is an independent arbitrator, specializing in international commercial and Investor-state disputes. She has served as arbitrator or chair in numerous international commercial arbitrations (HKIAC, CIETAC, BAC, ICC, SIAC, KCAB, and UNCITRAL Rules) and in investor-state arbitrations (ICSID, PCA-UNCITRAL).
Dr. Willems is the Associate Director of the LLM in International Arbitration & Dispute Settlement, at Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing (since 2015), a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (MIDS) and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Willems is a member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). She is a delegate of the AAIL at the UNCITRAL Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform). She is the ICCA Yearbook rapporteur for China.
Books and Contributions
- International Business Courts: A New Era for Dispute Resolution? in International Arbitration in Times of Economic Nationalism, Arp, Polanco (Ed), Kluwer, 2022, Chap 10.
- Investment Disputes under China's BITs: Jurisdiction with Chinese Characteristics? in Investment Law and Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific, Chaisse (Ed), OUP, 2019, Chap 24.
- The Arbitrator’s Jurisdiction at Risk: The Case of Hybrid and Asymmetrical Arbitration Agreements, in Liber Amicorum Pierre Karrer: The Powers and Duties of an Arbitrator, Chapter 38, Kluwer Law Intl, 2017.
- Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures Contract Disputes before International Arbitrators [In French: Les contrats de joint ventures sino-étrangères devant l’arbitre international], Larcier, 2015.
- Co-author, "Marketing" in Business Law in China: Trade, Investment and Finance, ICC, 1997.
Journal Articles
- Jurisdiction Focus, Country Focus: Laos, Asian Dispute Review, July 2022, 142-149.
- Book review, A Guide to the CIETAC Arbitration Rules by Jianlong Yu and Lijun Cao, Asian Dispute Review, October 2021, 202-203.
- Law and Practice of International Arbitration in China (1994-2019) [In French: Droit et practice de l’arbitrage international en Chine (1994-2019)], RIDC 4-2019 1025-1048.
- Party Autonomy and the Selection of Non-State Norms in International Commercial Contracts, HKLJ 2018 Vol. 48-3 951-991.
- The Settlement of Investor State Disputes and China: New Developments on ICSID Jurisdiction, SCJIL&B, Vol. 8: Iss. 1 (2011) 1-62.
- Issues Relevant to Chinese Parties Involved in Arbitrations Outside China: Trends in International Arbitration [中国公司在海外国际仲裁中的商业利益保護問題：國際仲裁的新趨勢], Arbitration in Beijing, Vol. 25(1) 2011, 37-52.
- The Reform of Mediation in Hong Kong [In French: La réforme de la médiation à Hong Kong], 2010(3) Paris Journal of International Arbitration 767-778.
- Arbitration and Procedural Indivisibility [In French: Arbitrage et indivisibilité procédurale], 2001 Cahiers de l’Arbitrage 100-114.
- Provisional measures and arbitration after the CJEU Van Uden Decision [In French: Les mesures provisoires et l'arbitrage après l'arrêt Van Uden de la CJCE], 2001 Cahiers de l’Arbitrage 83-87.