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Michael Mustill was called to the Bar in 1955, becoming Queen's Counsel in 1968. Until 1977, he practised mainly in Commercial law as an advisor and advocate. Throughout he was engaged in commercial arbitrations in England, and latterly also with arbitrations elsewhere, as advocate and arbitrator.
Michael Mustill became successively a Judge of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, retiring from full-time judicial sittings in 1991. Whilst a High Court Judge he acted as Judge of the Commercial Court, to which arbitration questions are referred. Since then he has sat as arbitrator in numerous cases in England and abroad. Together with co-author Stewart Boyd he published the first edition of Commercial Arbitration in 1982. He is the author of more than 30 contributions to legal journals on various subjects. He has also delivered addresses and taken part in arbitration colloquia in some twenty countries.
Formerly President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Michael Mustill is currently a Vice President of the Court of Arbitration of the ICC. Outside the world of arbitration he is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Doctor of laws at the University of Cambridge, where he had for some years been Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow. From October 2003 to October 2004, he was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Law at Birmingham University.
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