Guillermo Michelson Irusta

University of Buenos Aires; 1974

Specialties:

• Commercial Law
• Corporate Law
• Business Contracts
• Insurance
• Negotiation and Arbitration

Curriculum:

• Senior Partner at Michelson Law Firm.

Academic Positions:

• Academic Director of Postgraduate Courses on Corporations and Business Contracts.
• Professor of Business Law at UCA’s Master’s Program.
• Former Academic Director of Postgraduate Courses on Modern Business Contracts and Corporate Topics.
• Former Coordinator of the International Postgraduate Program “Public Policies for Economic and Social Management,” organized by the School of Postgraduate Studies of Ciudad Argentina, the University of Salvador, and the University Carlos III of Madrid.
• Former Professor of the Master’s in Economic Integration Law, organized by Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and the University of Salvador.
• Former Professor of Commercial Companies in the Specialization Course for Lawyers in Business Law at UADE.
• Former Professor in the Specialization Program in Corporate Business at the Argentine Notarial University.
• Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Buenos Aires Province.

Arbitration:

• Argentine Arbitrator on the lists of third-party arbitrators (Presidents) and Arbitrators for Ad-Hoc Tribunals of MERCOSUR within the Olivos Protocol.
• Argentine Arbitrator on the First Arbitration Tribunal of MERCOSUR within the Brasilia Protocol.
• Full Arbitrator of the Arbitration Tribunals of the San Isidro Bar Association, the Business Mediation and Arbitration Center (CEMA), the “Manuel Belgrano” International Arbitration and Mediation Center (CIAM), the Buenos Aires Bar Association, and the Mediation and Commercial Arbitration Center of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CEMARC).
• President of the Arbitration Commission of the Buenos Aires Bar Association.

Postgraduate Education:

• Postgraduate Course at the School of Law of The University of San Francisco, on “Advanced Mediation Training Course” (1995).
• Postgraduate Course at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, on “Theory and Tools of the Harvard Negotiation Project” (1996).
• Postgraduate Course at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, on “Advanced Negotiation Workshop” (1998).

Lecturer:

• Has given over 100 conferences on topics within his area of expertise.
• Publisher.

Social Activities:

• President of the “Pepperdine University Foundation for Latin America.”
• Former Treasurer of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Former Vice President of the Disciplinary Committee of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Soldiers Foundation.
• Member of the Jockey Club, Circulo de Armas, Club Universitario Buenos Aires, Mayling Country Club, Argentine Gourmet Club, Society of the Good Table, Argentine Academy of Gastronomy.