Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz

Beata is a senior partner, recognised international arbitrator, she has decided more than 150 cases in domestic and international arbitration (conducted, inter alia, under ICC, SCC, VIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, FCC, IAA, SCAI, Lewiatan, KIG, NDS, SIDiR rules) in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, construction law (inter alia, under FIDIC regulations), energy law and international commercial contracts.

She combines her career as an arbitrator with her academic activities. In 2023, she was appointed to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. For many years was an associate professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, where she taught , M&A transactions and commercial law.

She has given guest lectures at, among others, Stockholm University, Humbolt University, University of Leicester, Queen Mary University London, and the Virtual Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration of the Royal Institute of Arbitration in London (CIArb).

Member of advisory bodies and working groups of the world’s largest arbitration institutions: the ICC Committee on Arbitration and ADR, the SCC Arbitrators’ Council, the ICDR/AAA ICDR Rules Revision Task Force and the International Bar Association Council Task Force for the revision of the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration. Chair of the Audit Committee of the Polish Private Equity Association (PSIK), member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Arbitration Association.

Arbitral Award during the Pandemic. Permissibility of Contemporary Electronic Forms, Przegląd Prawa Handlowego 2020/7, p. 24-31

Admissibility of Electronic Awards in the UNCITRAL Model Law Jurisdiction: Polish Law Example, Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 38, Issue 2

Legal interest in a claim for declaratory relief before an ADR tribunal – Commentary to the National Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Court judgment SA 193/05, Jubilee volume dedicated to Prof. Andrzej Kidyba, Wolters Kluwer 2020, s. 777-787

The Legal, Real and Converged Interest in Declaratory Relief, Kluwer Law International 2019

The Concept of Legal Interest in Declaratory Relief and Access to Justice Problem: an Introduction to the Discussion. Analysis of the Statistical Data*, [in:] Przegląd Prawa Handlowego 1 (317)/2019

Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, Joanna Kisielińska-Garncarek, Arbitrability of a Dispute Concerning Exclusion of a Shareholder from a Limited Liability Company. Commentary on Decision of the Court of Appeal in Katowice of 15 December 2016, V ACz 1309/16*, Glosa 1(171)/2019

Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, K. Czech, The Role of Precedent in Investment Treaty Arbitration [in:] Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (ed. B. Legum), London 2018

On usefulness of distinguishing the branch ‘corporate finance law’ in the field of commercial law [in:] Private Law Dissertations. Liber Amicorum to Professor Wojciech Popiołek*, Wolters Kluwer 2017

European mixed jurisdiction of the new era – Polish law evidence, the European Review of Private Law, publication in process

UNCITRAL Model Law: Composition of the Arbitration Tribunal Re-considering the Case upon Setting Aside of the Original Arbitration Award’. Journal of International Arbitration 34, no. 1 (2017)

Repeal of the arbitral award and the composition of the arbitration court in the case of retrial [in:] Usus Magister Est Optimus. Rozprawy prawnicze ofiarowane Profesorowi Andrzejowi Kubasowi (Usus Magister Est Optimus. Legal hearings offered to Professor Andrzej Kubas), Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, CH Beck 2016

Arbitration court proceedings. Commentary to the Lewiatan Arbitration Court Rules*, ed. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, Wolters Kluwer 2015

Evolution of interim measueres as an example of the judicalisation of 21st century international commercial arbitration [in:] The challenges and the future of commercial and investment arbitration (ed. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz), Warsaw 2015

Written form of the arbitration agreement as a form for evidentiary purposes*. [in:] Państwo i Prawo, 12/2015

A Defect of the Enterprise as a Defect of a Share – One of the Dilemmas of M&A Transactions (Polish law perspective) [in:] Global Wisdom on Business Transactions, International Law and Dispute Resolution, CH Beck 2015

Chapter Lewiatan Court of Arbitration [in:] World Arbitation Reporter (WAR) 2 nd Edition. International Institutions

Polish Arbitration Law (ed. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz), Warsaw 2014

Representations and Warranties in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions:The Challenges of Cultural Diversity, ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, Vol. 24/Number 1-2013, June 2013

Perception of the practices followed in the field of the confidentiality obligation in arbitration [in:] Arbitration E-Review No. 2-3(10-11)/2012, January 2013

Normative basis of confidentiality principle in Polish commercial arbitration*n [in:] Przegląd Prawa Handlowego No. 1(245), January 2013

CEE Overview Chapter [in:] The International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2012. A practical cross-border insight into international arbitration work. Global Legal Group Ltd. and Commercial Dispute Resolution (CDR), London 2012

New Rules of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration . Co-author of a Chapter in YAR – Young Arbitration Review, April 2012

Chapter “Poland” [in:] The International Comparative Legal Guide to: International Arbitration 2011. A practical cross-border insight into international arbitration work. Global Legal Group Ltd. and Commercial Dispute Resolution (CDR), London 2011

Solving corporate disputes in arbitration proceedings [in:] Arbitration in Poland (ed. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz), Warsaw, 2011

The European Parliament draft Resolution on Brussels I: A return to the pre-West Tankers era? Arbitration e-Review, No. 4 (7)/2011

Class Action Arbitration* . Chapter in the book commemorating 60 th Anniversary of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Warsaw, 2010

Legal Character of Representations and Warranties in a Limited Liability Company Share Purchase Agreement (in Light of the Freedom of Contract Principle)* , WoltersKluwer, Warsaw 2010

Distinct Evidentiary Proceedings in Cases Heard by Alternative Dispute Resolution Tribunals* [in:] ADR Arbitraż i Mediacje, Beck, Poland, 2010

Conflicts of interests involved where arbitrators are members of law firms [in:] International and Domestic Commercial Arbitration at the Outset of the 21 st Century. The Commemorative Book to Honor dr. hab Tadeusz Szurski*, 2008

Capital share in a limited liability company as a subjective right*, Przegląd Prawa Handlowego No. 5 (189) May 2008

Mergers and Acquisitions: Don’t Buy a Pig in a Poke* [in:] Law at 2008 Company, Harvard Business Review, Poland, Supplement, March 2008