Mihaela Maravela

Relevant arbitration experience:

11 cases as arbitrator (sole arbitrator, chair, or co-arbitrator) under the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CICA-CCIR).
11 cases as counsel under the ICC, VIAC or WIPO Rules, or large investment treaty cases (both under ICSID and UNCITRAL rules), most of them in the team defending the Romanian State (ARB/10/13, ARB/14/29, ARB/15/31).
I have solved over 340 Internet domain name disputes (under UDRP) as panelist with WIPO.

Education & certifications:

2022-ongoing
• Doctoral studies for obtaining Ph.D in international arbitration (thesis on jurisdiction in domain name disputes).
2005-2006
• Second bar exam, National Institute for lawyers training and proficiency, Bucharest, Romania.
2003-2004
• LLM private law, Law School, Bucharest University, Romania.
1999-2003
• Law degree, Law School, Bucharest University, Romania.

Publications:

• Practical Insights on Anti-Suit Injunctions and Practical Insights on Anti-Arbitration Injunctions, in Kluwer Arbitration Practice Plus, Joshua Karton, Simon Greenberg, Fan Yang (eds), Wolters Kluwer (together with Crina Baltag), 2021.
• Survey on the Non-State Observers’ Contribution to an ISDS Advisory Centre, Proposal for an ISDS Advisory Centre, For the UNCITRAL Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform, as member of ITA UNCITRAL Taskforce, 2020.
• .RO Domain Name Disputes in Romania in: Arbitration in Romania, a Practitioner’s Guide, Crenguta Leaua and Flavius A. Baias (eds), Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
• National Romanian correspondent for the Bielefeld University, Germany, to the project “EU Consumer Law Compendium, Update of the EU Consumer Law Acquis Database”, 2007-2011.
• National Romanian correspondent to the project “Pilot Field Study on the Functioning of the National Judicial Systems for the Application of Consumer Protection Law Rules”, 2007-2011.
• Author at www.maravela.blog on international arbitration, domain names, trademarks, ESG and climate change.
• “Procedural aspects in Internet domain name disputes”, in Romanian Arbitration Journal, no. 2/2024.
• The applicable law to the arbitration agreement and its relevance in enforcement proceedings, in Romanian Arbitration Journal, no. 1/2023.
• Applicable Law in Domain Name Arbitrations, in Romanian Arbitration Journal, no. 1/2021.
• Applicable Law to Arbitration Agreement and No Oral Modification Clause: Case Note on the Decision of the England and Wales Court of Appeal”, in Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal (ESCI), (Vol. 13, No. 2) (together with Crina Baltag).
• The new generic Internet domain names. Considerations from the practice of solving generic Internet domain name disputes under UDRP, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2017 (co-author).
• Case law benchmarks on the defence of the personal name protected as trademark, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2014 (co-author).
• Practice of solving disputes deriving from breach of rights over trademarks by registration of .ro domain names by alternative means, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2013 (co-author).
• Brief submissions on the services of dispute resolution by alternative means provided by the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in specific fields, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 3/2012 (co-author).
• Breach of rights of third parties by registration of a domain name. Alternative means of solving disputes, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 2/2012 (co-author).
• Internet domain names, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2012 (co-author).
• Trademarks for Medicine. Choice. Special conditions, relevant public, the Romanian Magazine of Intellectual Property Law no. 2/2011 (co-author).
• Alternative procedures to solve disputes regarding internet domain names, the Romanian Magazine of Arbitration no. 1 of January - March 2010, Bucharest (co-author).
• Domain name and its legal protection, the Romanian Magazine of Arbitration no. 4 of October-December 2009 (co-author).

Additional information:

• Ranked as a Global Leader in Arbitration and Trademarks since 2018 by Lexology (former WWL).
• Experienced in various business sectors such as corporate, M&A, finance & banking, infrastructure, intellectual property, energy, oil & gas, environmental and climate change.