Davor Babić

Practice areas

Legal expertise

Relevant arbitration experience

• served in 85 arbitrations as chair, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator under various institutional and ad hoc rules (e.g. Croatian Chamber of Commerce, ICC, VIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL Rules, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Belgrade Arbitration Centre, Ljubljana Arbitration Centre, Montenegro Chamber of Commerce, UNUM Chamber of Commerce Rotterdam, ICSID) and in different places of arbitration (e.g. Belgrade, Cluj-Napoca, Frankfurt, Geneva, Ljubljana, London, Milan, Munich, Paris, Podgorica, Rotterdam, Vienna, Zagreb).

• advised parties in five international arbitration cases and acted as an expert witness in one such case.

• served as a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration

Education & certifications

1997 University in Zagreb, Faculty of Law: LL.B. (dipl. iur.)

1998 T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague: Asser College Europe – Diploma in European Law, WTO, International Commercial Arbitration and International Business Law

1999 Central European University, LL.M. in International Business Law

2005 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law: doctorate in law (dr. sc.)

Publications

Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe // International Commercial Arbitration Practice: 21st Century Perspectives / Mason, Paul E. ; Grigera Naón, Horacio A. (ed.), with Dora Zgrabljić Rotar, (looseleaf)

Validity of the Time Bar under FIDIC Sub-Clause 20.1 in Croatian Law // Construction Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe / Baltag, Crina ; Vasile, Cosmin (ed), with Fran Pelicarić, (2020), 131-140

The Application of the Rome I and Rome II Regulations in Croatia // Rome I and Rome II in Practice / Guinchard, Emmanuel (ed.), with Dora Zgrablić Rotar, Cambridge: Intersentia, 2020.

Rome I Regulation: binding authority for arbitral tribunals in the European Union?, 13 Journal of Private International Law (2017), 1; 71-90