Haersolte Hof, advocat

Biography

Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof has been admitted to the Bar since 1992 She is presently admitted to the Bar of The Hague. She was first admitted to the Rotterdam bar, working with the law firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke, including in the martime law department. During that time, she worked for the Claims Resolution for Dormant Accounts in Zürich. Subsequently, she joined De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague, and thereafter Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam as counsel in the International Arbitration Group.

 

Degrees:

Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Master of Laws 1986; PhD 1992, thesis entitled: The UNCITRAL Rules, The Practice of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal)

 

Experience:

counsel and arbitrator in international en national arbitrations and court litigation, involving:

• Sales and general contract law
• Post-M&A disputes
• Energy law (including gas price)
• International law (investment law; immunity law)
• Shipbuilding
• Commodities
• Injunctions/ Attachment
• Setting aside and enforcement proceedings
• ICC; UNCITRAL; NAI: ICSID; ad hoc arbitrations
• Assisting parties in mediation.

 

Other activities:

• Lecturer in International Arbitration Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Various guest lectures and teaching commitments
• Lecturer Arbitrators’ Course Netherlands Arbitration Institute
• Lecturer arbitration The Law Firm School
• Dutch Member of Panel of ICSID Arbitrators
• Officer Netherlands Society for International Law
• Editorial Board Global Arbitration Review

 

Selected publications:

• Anti-suit injunctions – weg ermee! Arbitrage-exceptie – weg ermee!, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees recht, June 2009
• The relationship between International Tribunals and Domestic Courts (with A. Hoffmann), in The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law, Oxford University Press 2008
• Arbitrage zonder (contractuele) grenzen: heden en toekomst van investeringsarbitrage (with Brian King), in Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (2005)
• Interim Measures of Protection – A European and International Perspective, in ICCA Congress series no. 11
• Innovations in Mass Claims Dispute Resolution: Using New Standards of Proof, Dispute Resolution Journal (2003)
• Samenvoeging van arbitrale gedingen – tijd voor een nieuwe regeling?!, Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (2001)
• Consolidation Under the English Arbitration Act 1996: A View from The Netherlands, Arbitration International (1997)
• Commentary on the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules – The Application by the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal (Kluwer, 1992)