Giacomo 

ROJAS ELGUETA

Giacomo Rojas Elgueta is an Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Roma Tre Law School, where he teaches Private Law and Economic Analysis of Law. He is also licensed as Full Professor of Comparative Law. He is Co-director of the Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration and currently serves as Co-editor of the ICCA project Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?.

Prof. Rojas Elgueta earned both his law degree (2001, summa cum laude) and his doctoral degree in Italian and European Civil Law (2005) from Roma Tre University. In the academic year 2003/2004 and for the fall semester of 2006, he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. In 2008 he received an LLM with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where in 2014 he also earned an SJD degree (Doctor of Juridical Science). He is the author of three books and several articles in major Italian and U.S. law reviews.

Prof. Rojas Elgueta is actively involved in commercial and investment arbitration as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator. He has acted as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in various arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and under the rules of the main arbitral institutions with seat in different countries. He has been appointed by the Italian Republic as expert witness in three investment arbitration proceedings under the rules of ICSID and SCC, and he has acted as expert on Italian law before U.S. state and federal courts. He is admitted to the Rome, Italy (2004) and New York Bar (2010).