Christopher Maurice Campbell

Chris is an international business and legal strategy consultant for the firm Shiver & Associates based in Columbia, South Carolina. A graduate of the Darla Moore School of Business (B.A.), the South Carolina School of Law (J.D.), and the Tsinghua University School of Law (L.L.M), Chris specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration across the globe, and has studied and worked on several continents.

Chris has also served as an arbitrator for the South Carolina Judicial Department on a myriad of varying disputes. As a result of his business school education, and business consulting background, Chris aims to bring practical business insights to resolving disputes and legal conflicts. Although based in the United States, Chris represents clients across the world, particularly throughout Mainland China.

Chris lived in Beijing for two years. Graduating from his beloved The Tsinghua University School of Law where he studied Chinese Language, Law and International Arbitration before working for two prestigious law firms as a foreign consultant. He loved the people, culture and Beijing so much he plans to return to China in the near future. Chris believes strongly that China is a new "land of opportunity," and would love to see more cooperation between the Chinese and American people for mutual prosperity around the world.

Chris is also the host of the upcoming podcast "Tales from the Tribunal", a show that examines contemporary trends in international commercial arbitration. That podcast will be available in August 2017.

From 2014 to 2016 Chris was a coach of the Tsinghua University Willem C. Vis Moot international commercial team.

Publication History:

1) We Want to be in the Room Where it Happens: A Demand for Practical Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration – Young Arbitration Review

2) Take Responsibility for Your Actions: A Review of Dr. Barbara Warwas' Inaugural Text – Journal of Transnational Dispute Management

3) In Re Kleimar, case summary by the American Bar Association

4) 2016 Arbitration Review – China Law Blog

5) I am currently working on my next article: U.S.A. vs. the World: Right to Public Access of Court Records and Confidentiality Concerns in Commercial Arbitration.