Ambassador (Ret.) David Huebner, C.Arb, FCIArb, CollArb, has handled more than 375 arbitrations in three dozen jurisdictions around the world with particular expertise in technology, life sciences, new energy, and IP-related entertainment/media disputes (including in emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, BCIs, metaverse, next gen solar, and new materials) as well as in investor-state disputes. He is Chambers and Lexology ranked.
Among numerous other panel appointments, he has been admitted to the panel of the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the EU’s Unified Patent Court, appointed to the inaugural Sino-US Joint Panel of Arbitrators established by Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and JAMS to resolve cross-border technology and other IP disputes, and appointed to the ICSID panel by President Obama. He was named a distinguished fellow of the Auckland University of Technology’s Faculty of Business and Law.
Amb. Huebner has taught full-semester courses in intellectual property and cross-border dispute resolution at USC and UCLA law schools, and guest-lectured at other universities in China, Germany, New Zealand, and the U.S. He is the past chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator's global board of trustees and a president-elect of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He has chaired the California Law Revision Commission as an appointee of three Governors (Davis, Schwarzenegger, and Newsom).
He is a member of the Bars of CA, NY, and DC, has been licensed as a solicitor in England & Wales, and is a graduate of Princeton University (summa cum laude) and Yale Law School. Over the course of his career, he has been based for extended periods in Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, New Zealand, and now Los Angeles.
For full bio and additional information about experience, credentials, teaching, and lectures, please see www.HuebnerArbitration.com .
David Huebner
