Chuck is Of Counsel based in the firm’s 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’s representative experience includes:
- acting for an Estonian company in an ICSID arbitration relating to an investment in a construction project in Kazakhstan
- acting for U.S. investors in a treaty-based arbitration claim arising out of the financial services industry in Poland
- acting for a Middle Eastern State in an OIC arbitration relating to a claim by a Qatari aviation company
- acting for a Canadian company in an ICSID arbitration relating to an investment in Kazakhstan’s gold mining industry
- acting for a Canadian company in an UNCITRAL arbitration relating to an investment in Kazakhstan’s uranium mining industry
- acting for a Turkish company and individuals in an ICSID arbitration against Uzbekistan in relation to an investment in the country’s gas transportation industry
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 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.