Professor Charles (Chuck) Kotuby

Fellow

Chuck is Of Counsel based in the Three Crowns Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on international commercial and treaty-based arbitration, transnational litigation, and public international law.

Previously a partner at an international law firm, he spent over twenty years as an international law counsel representing multinational corporations and sovereign states in complex international disputes.

Chuck is a Professor of Practice at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, an Honorary Professor at Durham Law School and a Visiting Professor of Law at the Kyiv School of Economics. He teaches courses in international arbitration, public international law and international human rights. He has published extensively, authoring or co-authoring more than two dozen articles and book chapters over the last 20 years.

Chuck is a member of the United States Government Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III on Reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Private International Law. Prior to his time in private practice and academia, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany, and a Law Clerk to the Honourable Joseph F. Weis on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Chambers USA has recognised him as a Band 1 lawyer, calling him a “wonderful lawyer” and a “standout person…known for his…extensive multijurisdictional expertise.”

Chuck is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (JD ’01, BA ’97) and the University of Durham (LLM ’00), and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania.