Charles Brower
Charles Brower
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Biography
Chip Brower serves as Distinguished Service Professor at Wayne State University Law School, Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Of Counsel to Miller Canfield's International Disputes Group, and Foster Family Research Scholar.
In addition to more than 25 years of academic experience touching on virtually every aspect of international law and international dispute settlement, Brower has served as arbitrator, counsel, or advocate in proceedings conducted under the AAA Commercial Rules, the AAA International Rules, the HKIAC Rules, the ICC Rules, and the SIAC Rules, as well as in advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice. He has also served as an expert witness on the U.S. law of international arbitration and litigation for high-value proceedings in Canadian courts.
Brower’s scholarship on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration has been cited and quoted by federal courts in Canada and the United States, most recently by the Eleventh Circuit’s unanimous en banc opinion in Corporación AIC, SA v. Hidroeléctrica Santa Rita SA. He also received the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for the best article on international arbitration in 2012.
Brower is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has been listed in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration since 2014. In the past, he has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, as Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, as Visiting Professor and Scholar-in-Residence at American University’s Washington College of Law, and a member of the AAA’s Observer Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group II.
Brower received a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Vermont and a J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.
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Degrees and Certifications
University of Virginia School of Law
J.D. awarded May 1995
Order of the Coif
Virginia Law Review, Editorial Board (1994-95)Moscow State University
Research Fellowship, Institute of International Education (1989-90)University of Vermont
B.A., summa cum laude, political science and Russian language (May 1989)
Outstanding Senior Award (both majors)
Phi Beta Kappa -
Courses Taught
Contracts
International Commercial Arbitration
International Law
Law of Armed Conflict -
Accomplishments
- Charles BrowerCharles Brower has been named senior vice chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), a leading professional organization in international arbitration in the Americas and globally. In June 2024, Brower ascended as the 12th Chair of the ITA, succeeding a line of distinguished leaders. Brower’s appointment marks only the third time an academic has held this position since the ITA’s establishment in 1986. Brower has also been named Distinguished Service Professor and Foster Family Research Scholar at Wayne Law (2024).
- Charles Brower was cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Brower's article, Hollow Spaces, 61 Buff. L. Rev. 731, 812 (2013), was cited in Corporacion AIC, S.A. v. Hidroelectrica Santa Rita S.A., 34 F.4th 1290 (11th Cir. 2022), an unusual case in which a three-judge panel urged the entire court to take the case en banc and to overrule circuit precedent.
- Charles "Chip" Browerwas selected for inclusion in Who's Who Legal: Arbitration. For the 2019 edition, Brower is one of only 111 American-based lawyers and only seven U.S.-based academics selected for inclusion. He is also the only individual selected from Michigan.
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Recent courses taught
Winter Term 2025 (future)
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
Fall Term 2022
Winter Term 2022