Fabricio Fortese, FCIArb

Dr Fabricio Fortese is a Research Fellow at the IECL, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. His research project focuses on the intricacies of legal interpretation, harmonisation, and unification of international arbitration laws. It examines the role of national courts post-arbitral awards and the extent of judicial review of arbitral decisions on jurisdiction under the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law and the English Arbitration Act.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Director of Mooting Activities at the Department of Law, Stockholm University. He also represents Stockholm University as a board member of the Association for the Organization of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and is a former board member of the Nordic-Baltic Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club.  

As a practising lawyer and expert consultant, he has experience in various forms of ADR for cross-border disputes, international trade, trade finance and trade insurance, distribution, debt restructuring, and disputes involving insolvent entities. 

In recent years, he has held visiting scholar and research fellowships at Columbia Law and the National University of Singapore. His academic background also includes an LLB from Buenos Aires University, an LLM in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London, an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration and a PhD from Stockholm University. 

His recent book Early Determination of Arbitral Jurisdiction (Kluwer Law International, 2024) examines the pivotal issue of whether national courts should (or could) conclusively settle jurisdictional disputes before or after arbitrators have determined that matter. Other notable publications include the books Arbitration in Argentina (Kluwer Law International, 2020) and Finances in International Arbitration, Liber Amicorum for Patricia Shaughnessy (Kluwer Law International, 2019).