Stewart Shackleton is qualified as an Avocat au Barreau de Paris, a Barrister of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a Solicitor Advocate in England and Wales and a Solicitor in China HKSAR. He has appeared before the courts in Canada, England & Wales and France. Specializing in the arbitration of investment, commercial and construction disputes and has acted as both arbitrator and counsel in over 200 arbitrations at all major venues around the world. He holds law degrees in both civil law (maitrise en droit civil) and common law jurisdictions (LL.B.) as well as graduate degrees from the Universities of Paris I (Sorbonne-Pantheon) and Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) in Public International Law, Comparative Law and African Law. He also holds an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from Kings College. He has written and spoken widely on the subject of arbitration law.