MSL With a Specialization in International Business Law

Charles Kotuby is a professor of practice and serves as executive director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has 20 years of experience as an international law counsel representing multinational corporations and sovereign states in complex international disputes. He has also acted in international arbitrations and litigations in a range of sectors and industries, and has been counsel to clients with treaty-based claims in Central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and has appeared as counsel in international matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, ICSID, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitral tribunals.

Professor Kotuby has published extensively on issues of international arbitration and international law, authoring or co-authoring more than two dozen articles and book chapters over the last 20 years. He is an active arbitrator and a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of the United States Government Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III on Reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement. Professor Kotubty is also a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Private International Law, an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, and the U.S. editor for the website www.conflictoflaws.net.

Professor Kotuby is a Pitt Law School alumnus.