Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof
Professor Civil Law
- Name
- Prof.dr. J.J. van Haersolte-van Hof
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.j.van.haersolte@law.leidenuniv.nl
Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof has been the Director General of the London Court of Arbitration since July 2014. She continues to sit as arbitrator. Previously, from 2008 until she joined the LCIA, she had her own law firm in The Hague, HaersolteHof. Before then, she worked with the Rotterdam law firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke (1992-2000), including in its corporate and maritime law departments. During that time, she was seconded to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Zürich. Subsequently, she joined De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague (2000-2005), and thereafter Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam as counsel in the International Arbitration Group (2005-2008).
She was a summer associate with Baker McKenzie, New York (September-October 1988); intern with Chalos, English & Brown, New York (January-June 1987); Fisher Porter & Kent in Long Beach, California (October-December 1986); and Van Doorne & Sjollema Rotterdam (March 1986).
Experience
Advising and representing multinational companies in commercial, investment, and dispute matters; acting for and against foreign states. Matters include sales and general contract law, post-Merger & Acquisition disputes; energy law (including gas price review disputes); international law (investment law; immunity law); transport and commodities, shipbuilding, including off-shore; insurance. Assisting parties in meditation.
Has served as arbitrator and counsel in dozens of disputes in arbitrations administered by the following institutions and/or governed by the following rules: International Chamber of Commerce, London Court of Arbitration, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Netherlands Arbitration Institute, TAMARA, Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association and ad hoc proceedings. Member of ICSID panel and appointed as member of the ad hoc Annulment Committee in ICSID Case No. ARB/09/9. Has represented parties, including states, in court proceedings, including in arbitration related matters, arbitrator appointment issues, securing assets (embassy attachments), enforcement issues (New York Convention) and setting aside proceedings. Acted as Legal Secretary to the U.S./U.K. Heathrow Tribunal administered by the PCA (1991-1992).
Professor Civil Law
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Privaatrecht
- Civiel recht
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van (2024), Law reform: the institutional perspective, Arbitration International 40(1): 13-24.
- Haersolte J.J. van (2023), Are arbitral seats striking the right balance between arbitrator autonomy and court supervision?. In: Brekoulakis S., Weeramantry R. & Nagapetyan L. (Eds.), Achieving the arbitration dream: Liber Amicorum for Professor Julian D.M. Lew KC. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer-Kluwer Law International. 343-353.
- Haersolte J.J. van & Stone M. (2023), Secretaries to the arbitral tribunal. In: Kröll S., Bjorklund A. & Ferrari F. (Eds.), Cambridge Compendium of international commercial and investment arbitration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1044-1074.
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van (2022), Foreword. In: Happ R. & Wilske S. (Eds.), ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022: Article-by-Article Commentary. München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: Beck/Hart/Nomos. XXIII-XXV.
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van, annotation: HR 5 November 2021, TvA 2022,2: 51-59 (TVA 2022/27 Yukos-arbitrage – Vernietiging en herroeping, toetsing bevoegdheid en nog veel meer).
- Haersolte J.J. van (2021), Impartiality and independence: fundamental and fluid, Arbitration International 37(3): 599-611.
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van, annotation: Hoge Raad 12 April 2019, no. 17/04926, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:565. TvA 2020(1): 19-22 (TvA 2020/4 TvA 2020/4 Vernietiging van arbitrale voorlopige voorzieningen is mogelijk, maar zal niet snel geschieden (Ecuador/Chevron en Texaco)).
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van, Greenway F. & Cho A. (2019), LCIA Approach to Challenges to Arbitrators, BCDR International Arbitration Review 6(1): 191-216.
- Haersolte-van Hof J.J. van & Koppe E.V. (2015), International arbitration and the lex arbitri, Arbitration International 31(1): 27-62.
- Arbiter en adviseringswerkzaamheden
- Director General