Short Bio

Yarik Kryvoi currently works with dispute resolution practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. His practice focuses on international commercial and investor-state arbitration.

Prior to that, he worked for an international law firm in Washington, D.C. In 2007-2008 he was an extern law clerk for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was also a lecturer at the Belarusian State University and served at the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Yarik Kryvoi holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of Harvard International Law Journal. He also received a master's degree with honors in European and International Law from Utrecht University, which he attended as a Huygens Scholar. He obtained his LL.B. with distinction from St. Petersburg State University and a Ph.D. from Moscow State Law Academy.

Works in Progress

Recent and Forthcoming Activities

Nov '09 Attending Freshfields Annual Arbitration Lecture in London, UK

Nov '09 AAA/ICC/ICSID Joint Colloquium on International Arbitration in Washington, D.C.

Jul '09 Presenting a paper on international labor law at Conference 'Regulating for Decent Work' organized by the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland

Apr '09 Judging for the Jessup International Law Competition - Shearman & Sterling International Rounds in Washington, DC

Nov '08 Presenting a paper at a conference "The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years" organized by the American Society for International Law in Washington, DC

Nov '08 Judging for Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition in Boston, MA

Sep '08 Teaching a course on international investment arbitration at Bilkent University Faculty of Law in Ankara, Turkey