Introduction

Combining academic, international and intergovernmental experiences in preventing and resolving international disputes

Law Professor and Attorney-at-Law (Paris-Rome)

Chartered Arbitrator (FCIArb), Former International Tenant and Arbitrator, 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square (London)

Former Chief, International Standards Section, UNESCO (HQ Paris, 192 Governments and Member States) 

Acts as Arbitrator, Legal Counsel and Expert in:

i) Commercial, Construction, Energy, Investment, Treaty, Sports, Law

ii) Art Law and Restitution Claims, UNESCO Conventions (visit carducciartlaw.com)

iii) International Law (Public, Economic, Private), EU, French and Italian Law

Fluent and works in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian

Former Mediator between the United Kingdom and Greece in the Dispute for the Return of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum

Member of three ICC Commissions: Arbitration and ADR – Commercial Law – Competition

CIIAM (Madrid – Santiago, International and Interamerican Arbitration Center) : Co-Chair of the “Arbitration with States and Investments” Working Group (until June 2026)

American Bar Association (ABA): Former Vice-Chair, International Arbitration and International Litigation Committees

Panels of Arbitrators: ICDR, CIArb, WIPO, CIETAC, JCAA, HKIAC, BVI, CMAP. Formerly ICSID, SIAC, CAS Panels

Recognized in The Legal 500 : Dispute Resolution

Publications: 60 Articles in Law Journals and 2 Monographs:

Arbitration in France: Law and Practice (forthcoming Oxford University Press)
International Art Restitution Claims (LGDJ Paris)

Ph.D. in International Law (Univ. Paris II) – Ph.D. in Comparative Contract Law (Univ. Rome I) – Diploma, The Hague Academy of International Law

Dr.

Guido Carducci is a law professor and an attorney-at-law.

He was Chief of the International Standards Section at UNESCO (Paris Headquarters) in charge of international standard-setting, the intergovernmental elaboration of international law and its implementation in (192) Member States, and of UNESCO Conventions on art, cultural property and heritage

Experience and expertise by jurisdictions include:

i) Public, Private and Economic, International Law:

a) Former Chief, International Standards Section, UNESCO (HQ Paris, 2002-2007), assisting or advising Governments of (192) Member States in: i) international standard-setting, treaty-making and implementation; and ii) UNESCO Cultural Property and Heritage Conventions:

– Designed and drafted the first draft instrument and in charge of its intergovernmental negotiation (open to legal and policy experts of 192 Member States) leading to the following instruments:

i) a treaty: the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003)

ii) the UNESCO Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage (2003)

iii) the Draft UNESCO Declaration of Principles relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Connection with the Second World War (“Nazi-looted art” and beyond)

– Was in charge of the implementation of the following Conventions:

i) 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols (138 States Parties)

ii) 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (149 States Parties)

 iii) 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (81 States Parties)

– Expert also: 1972 UNESCO Convention (impacts investments, natural resources, energy, ex. ICSID Arb. 84/3)

– Was in charge of the Cultural Property “Return and Restitution” Intergovernmental Committee

– Assisted Member States in designing national legislation to implement treaties upon their request

b) Delegate of Italy in Treaty-making: negotiation UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention

c) Treaty-making: former précis-writer The Hague Conference of Private International Law & UNIDROIT

d) Distinctions : Diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law; Ph.D 

e) Also Professor, Arbitrator, Expert, Counsel, Author: in private, public and economic international law

ii) French and EU Law:

a) Law Professor in Paris (1999-Present) in French and EU Contract, Commercial, Company Law – International Private, Business, Arbitration Law, Maître de Conférences des Facultés de droit,Paris Est, Hors classe, HDR

b) D. Docteur en droit, Univ. Paris II, Thesis “The Specialisation of the Sources of International Contract Law (before National Courts and Arbitral Tribunals)”. Post-graduate specializations DEAs (Univ. Paris I, II) in : i) Contract and Commercial Law; ii) EU Law; iii) International Private and Business Law; iv) Public International Law. Holder Maîtrise en droit (Univ. Paris II), Diploma, Institute of Comparative Law (Univ.Paris II)

c) Paris Bar : admitted ex officio, presently not Member

d) Expert in EU Law and Investments, Energy, Arbitration (Since “Achmea”, article ICSID Review 2018, p.582)

e) EU Expert in EU law-making : i) EU Regulation N.650/2012 International Successions; ii) Return of World War II Looted Art

 

iii) Italian Law:

a) Attorney-at-Law in Rome, also before Italian Supreme Courts (Avvocato, Patrocinante in Cassazione)

b) Dottore di Ricerca Univ. Rome I La Sapienza, Thesis “Mandatory and Overriding Mandatory Rules in Comparative Contract Law and Conflict of Laws (Domestic and International Contracts)”.

c) Laurea (J.D.) in Law

d) Author and Team Leader for the ICC Compendium of Antitrust Damages Actions in EU/Italian Law

iv) English Law:

a) Former International Tenant and Arbitrator with 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, London (2018-2025)

b) Former Registered European Lawyer in England and Wales (until Brexit and 31/12/2020)

c) Succesfully passed part of the Bar Transfer Test (run by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to qualify as Barrister) in: English Legal System, English Administrative Law, English Constitutional Law, English Land Law, EU Law.

v) U.S. Law:

a) ICDR Panel of Arbitrators. b) Former Visiting Professor University of Miami. c) American Bar Association (ABA, ILS): i) Former Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Committee and of the International Litigation Committee; ii) Former ABA Observer in the “Uniform Commercial Codeand Emerging Technologies Committee” of the Uniform Law Commission (see the outcome in “2022 UCC Reform”). d) Author in some leading U.S. law reviews.