Thomas E. Carbonneau
Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law
Education:
LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University
M.A., J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., M.A., Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
A.B., Bowdoin
Professor Carbonneau is a scholar of international, comparative, and domestic arbitration. He has written more than fifteen well regarded books and eighty scholarly articles. As a Fulbright Scholar, he held the Visiting Chair in Comparative Law and Legal Pluralism at McGill Faculty of Law in Montréal, Quebec, Canada in spring 2010. As faculty director of Penn State's Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice, Professor Carbonneau co-directs the Summer Program in Arbitration Law at the McGill Faculty of Law in, Quebec, Canada, and oversees publication of the Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation. Professor Carbonneau is a former Rhodes Scholar who previously held the Moise S. Steeg Jr. professorship at Tulane University School of Law.
Contact Information:
E-mail: tec10@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 863-3730
Principal Office: University Park
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Books
Cases and Materials on the Law and Practice of Arbitration (5th ed., Thomson West 2009) (with teaching manual 2010).
The Law and Practice of Arbitration (3d ed., Juris Publishing 2009).
Arbitration in a Nutshell (2d ed., Thomson West 2009).
Liberal Rules of Arbitrability and the Autonomy of Labor Arbitration in the United States, in Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives (L. Mistelis & S. Brekoulakis, eds., Kluwer 2009).
Cases and Materials on International Litigation and Arbitration (Thomson West 2005) (with teaching manual).
Lex Mercatoria and Arbitration: A Discussion of the New Law Merchant (rev. ed., Juris Publishing 1998).
Articles
Judicial Approbation and the Civilization of Arbitration, 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 983 (2009).
Arguments for the Triumph of Arbitration, 10 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 395 (2009).
Commercial Peace and Political Competition in the Crosshairs of International Arbitration, 18 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 311 (2008).
Hall Street Associates, LLC v. Mattel, Inc.: A New Englander's Tale of Statutory Supremacy in Arbitration Law, 1 Stockholm Int'l Arb. Rev. 19 (2008).
The Revolution in Law Through Arbitration, 56 Clev. St. L. Rev. 233 (2008).
