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Thomas E. Carbonneau

Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law



 

Education:
LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University
M.A., J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., M.A., Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
A.B., Bowdoin

Professor Carbonneau is a renowned scholar of international and domestic arbitration and the author of more than fifteen highly acclaimed books and seventy-five scholarly articles. His recently published works include Cases and Materials on the Law and Practice of Arbitration, 4th ed., The Law and Practice of Arbitration, 2d ed., and Arbitration in a Nutshell. He is the faculty director of Penn State's Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice and the co-director of the law school's Summer Program in Arbitration Law at the McGill Faculty of Law in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Professor Carbonneau is also editor-in-chief of the law school's World Arbitration and Mediation Review (formerly the World Arbitration and Mediation Reporter), a leading international publication covering domestic and international developments in both arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Professor Carbonneau is a former Rhodes Scholar who previously held the Moise S. Steeg Jr. professorship at Tulane University School of Law. He is recognized as an outstanding professor who, together with Professor Ackerman, Dean McConnaughay, and Professor Welsh, provides our students with a superior education in the field of alternative dispute resolution.

Contact Information:
Email: tec10@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5153

Selected Publications:
Cases and Materials on International Litigation and Arbitration, Thomson-West, 2005 (with Teacher's Manual).

The Law and Practice of Arbitration, Juris Publications, New York, 2003.

"The Exercise of Contractual Freedom in the Making of Arbitration Agreements," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2003.

"The Ballad of Transborder Arbitration," Miami Law Review, 2002.

Cases and Materials on the Law and Practice of Arbitration, Juris Publishing, 2000.

Lex Mercatoria and Arbitration: A Discussion of the New Law Merchant, Juris Publishing, 1998.

"Arbitral Justice: The Demise of Due Process in American Law," Tulane Law Review, 1996.

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Melting the Lances and Dismounting the Steeds, University of Illinois Press, 1989.

"The Exuberant Pathway to Quixotic Internationalism: Assessing the Folly of Mitsubishi," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1986.

Resolving Transnational Disputes Through International Arbitration, University of Virginia Press, 1984.

The French Law of Arbitration, with Jean Robert, Matthew Bender, 1983.

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