The International Arbitration Review - 12th Edition

James H Carter is senior counsel in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where he is active as counsel and as an arbitrator. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, attended Cambridge University as a Fulbright Scholar and served as law clerk to the Hon Robert P Anderson of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr Carter is chair of the board of directors of the New York International Arbitration Center and a former chair of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association. From 2004 2006, he was president of the American Society of International Law. He is also a former chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice, and served as chair of its committee on international commercial arbitration. Mr Carter has chaired both the international affairs council and the committee on international law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as well as the international law committee of the New York State Bar Association. He has served as a member of the London Court of International Arbitration and vice president of its North American council, and is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.