Caroline Kleiner
Caroline Kleiner is a tenured Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Université Paris Cité. She teaches private international law, international arbitration, banking law and international finance. Appointed as a member of the Arbitration Commission of ARIAS France in January 2025, she is also a member of the Haut Comité juridique de la Place financière de Paris (HCJP). In August 2025, after a rigorous selection process, she was appointed to the ICSID List of Arbitrators for France by the Minister of Economy and Finance.
Professor, Arbitrator and legal expert
Invited to teach at various universities and institutes abroad (University of Luxembourg, Hague Academy of International Law, Vienna (Austria), Kansai (Osaka), Doshisha (Kyoto), Buenos Aires (UBA), the High School of Economics (Moscow), the Franco-Romanian College in Bucharest, Geneva, and the Nova School of Law summer school in arbitration (Lisbon), Caroline Kleiner also regularly speaks at various conferences held in France and abroad.
Her research focuses on international commercial arbitration and international banking law (particularly cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)). Recognized for her expertise in this area, she was elected chair of the CBDC expert group of the Hague Conference in September 2025. Her work also focuses on the effect of international sanctions on international contracts and disputes; she teaches a special course on this subject at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris and, in December 2025, as part of the advanced courses organized by the Academy of International Law in cooperation with the Asian Academy of International Law. She is the author of various books and several articles in French, English, German, and Spanish, particularly on international litigation, international banking law, and private international law. She acts as an arbitrator and occasionally drafts legal opinions.
CONFeRENCE
Arbitral Awards: Universalism or Exceptionalism?
Caroline Kleiner is organizing a conference on Monday, November 18, 2024 on Enforcement or Arbitral Awards: Universalism or Exceptionalism? which will take place at Paris Cité University, Malakoff campus. The conference will bring together 16 speakers and moderators: professors, lawyers, arbitrators, all prestigious experts in international arbitration law, to discuss the enforcement of arbitral awards, the subject of the New York Convention of 1958, in force in 172 States. The objective of the New York Convention was to promote the enforcement of arbitral awards, by limiting the grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement. As a result, the Convention aimed to harmonize the enforcement regime, while leaving room for national laws for certain aspects. The speakers will discuss the application of the Convention by judges from different jurisdictions, with a view to assessing whether, after 65 years of entry into force, the Convention has succeeded in “universalizing” the regime for the execution of sentences or if it is largely tinged with national exceptions.
Arbitration
Last publications
Arbitrage Commercial International : Une approche comparative
The comparative law of international commercial arbitration is essential to the understanding and practice of international commercial arbitration. The aim of this book is to provide a concise comparative approach. With reference to recent case law from leading jurisdictions and up-to-date arbitration rules revisions, this handbook provides a comparative analysis of the legal issues raised in arbitration.
F. Ferrari
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F. Rosenfeld
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C. Kleiner
Author
Combining perspectives from both practice and academia, Franco Ferrari, Friedrich Rosenfeld and Caroline Kleiner examine all the key points of international commercial arbitration. After introductory remarks on the applicable normative framework, the book covers all the phases of an arbitration procedure: from the study of arbitration agreements to the post-award regime, including the request for arbitration, the constitution of the arbitral tribunal, the rules relating to the arbitral procedure, to the taking of evidence, and the issues raised in complex arbitrations.