TIBOR VARADY
Education:
S.J.D.
Harvard Law School (1970)
LL.M. Harvard Law School (1968)
Belgrade University, Faculty of Law (1967)
B.Soc.Sc.
Belgrade University, Faculty of Law (1962)
Current academic and related positions:
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University Professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University and Chairman of the International Business Law Program (April 1993 – Present)
- Pro-Rector of the Central European University (September 1994 - October 1997)
- Head of the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University (July 1993 - August 1997)
- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Law at the Novi Sad University Faculty of Law (February 1963 - July 1992)
- VISITING PROFESSOR
Emory University School of Law (10 times in period 1988-2002)
Cornell Law School (1997, 1995, 1993)
University of California, Berkeley (1991)
University of Florida College of Law (1981)
Foreign languages:
English, French, German, Serbian, Croatian and Hungarian
Current research projects and activities:
- SCHOLARLY RESEARCH
Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht - Hamburg
Centre nationale des recherches scientifiques, Paris Institute of Advanced Studies, London
- Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2003)
- Present Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1992)
- Present Corresponding Member of the Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts (1987)
- External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1996 -1999)
- Chairman of the Steering Committee of Asser College Europe (1996 - 2001)
- Present Member of the World Law Institute Faculty (1997)
- Present Member of the ILA (1970)
- Present Member of the Société de la Legislation comparé (1980)
- Active in international commercial arbitration since 1973 (acted as arbitrator or chairman of panels of arbitrators in more than 150 cases)
- Member of the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration
Member of the list of arbitrators
Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration at the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce
Court of Arbitration at the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce
Court of Arbitration at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce
Court of Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Court of Arbitration Regional Center for Commercial
- Arbitration in Cairo
Regional Center for Commercial Arbitration in Kuala Lumpur
Member of the Academic Council of the Foundation for
- International Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Member of the Editorial Board of the Croatian Arbitration Yearbook
- Active as arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations over the last 15 years
Selected recent publications:
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International Commercial Arbitration – A Transnational Perspective, Second Edition (co-authors J. Barcelo and A. Von Mehren) with separate volumes of Document Supplement and  Teacher’s Manual, Thomson& West, 2003
- Private International Law, 2003, 6th Edition, (co-authors G. Knežević and B. Bordás)
The author or co-author of 20 books, 70 articles in English, French, or German, 100 articles in Serbo-Croatian and 30 articles in Hungarian