Founding Partner, WordStone Dispute Resolution
Eduardo Silva-Romero is a founding partner at Wordstone, specializing in international commercial and investment arbitration, with a historic focus on disputes involving States and State-owned entities.
Eduardo is recognized as one of the world's most in-demand arbitrators, having acted in over 180 international commercial and investment cases under a wide variety of institutional rules. He has advised and advises on arbitration matters conducted under the auspices of ICC, ICSID, PCA, LCIA, ICDR and SCC, as well as in ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL and EDF arbitration rules.
Eduardo is consistently recognized in the Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 directories as one of the most pre-eminent arbitration practitioners globally. He is a former Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and former member of the ICC Court, and is currently the Chair of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
Eduardo has published several articles, books and chapters on international arbitration, including its lectures on "Legal Fictions in the Language of International Arbitration" delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2019. He also lectures on investment arbitration and international contracts at Sciences Po in Paris, international arbitration at Paris II University, international commercial arbitration involving States and State entities at the University of Paris-Dauphine, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rosario in Bogotá.
Recent Publications
"Legal Fictions in the Language of International Arbitration", in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Brill, 2022.
Translator in Spanish of Théorie de l'arbitrage by Bruno Oppetit, Bogotá, D.C.: French Embassy in Colombia - Legis - Universidad del Rosario, 2006.
Editor of El Contrato de Arbitraje, Bogotá, D.C.: Legis - Universidad del Rosario, 2005.
Wittgenstein et la philosophie du droit, Paris Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), Collection Droit Ethique Société, supervised by François Terré and Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 2002.
(With Catherine Kessedjian, Loretta Malintoppi, Jean-Baptiste Racine) "L'arbitrage entre harmonie, concurrence et chaos normatif", Revue de l'arbitrage, n° 2, 2024
(With Philippe Coleman, Sophie Lemaire, Céline Lévesque) "Chronique de jurisprudence arbitrale en droit des investissements", Revue de l'arbitrage, n° 2, 2024
"Legal Fictions in the Language of International Arbitration", in Arbitration Beyond Borders: Essays in Memory of Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez, Kluwer Law International, 2023.
"The Legal Fiction of the Seat of the International Arbitration", in Achieving the Arbitration Dream: Liber Amicorum for Professor Julian D.M. Lew KC, Kluwer Law International, 2023.
"What places for Compliance in investment arbitration?", in Frison-Roche, M.-A.(ed.), Compliance Jurisdictionalisation, series "Compliance & Regulation", Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant, 2023.
"L'arbitrage d'investissement impliquant les états, une tendance croissante au sein de l'ICC", in Echanges internationaux, 2022.
Nationality
Colombia
France
Working languages
English
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Areas of Expertise
International Commercial and Investment Arbitration